Essays like this certainly appear in a somewhat different light after reading this, this morning: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/…

Having an unconventional, unusual, risky, or rare experience (porn, mountain climbing, making every Julia Childs dish etc) is insufficient preparation for writing good prose. I wish more people got that.

I’m tired of all that political correctness. I don’t want to have to hide my racism or misogyny! That’s why I’m voting for Trump, so I can feel free to commit hate crimes without worry.

The students say they didn’t learn Trump’s secrets and never received the one-on-one guidance they expected.

Great breakdown. I watched the episode last night and I was SO rooting for Effie and felt uncomfortable on her behalf. Especially when she emphasized on coming from a place “with love in my heart”, like she knew immediately she had to explicitly say it for fear she’d be written off as the angry black woman otherwise.…

I’m sad that “very-well educated” is a liability for women, apparently.

Your comment reminds me of a former roommate in college who had bad luck with the ladies. Said roommate was fat with terrible facial hygiene, no sense of style, and wasted his days on a Lazy Boy recliner mashing buttons on his XBox controller.

Anytime he complained about not being able to find a girl, he always said…

I have to admit that as a very well-educated woman in her 30s, there’s an appeal to a dating marketplace where that isn’t considered a liability.

are you telling me that when my loved ones told me “all that matters is your personality” they were lying to me

I once got drunk on Fourth of July and decided to wax my chest.

My city is home to more than a few “massage places” that double as...handjob places (I was looking for a word, but couldn't settle on anything). Does that not happen everywhere? I don't understand why you don't believe those reviews?

Oh god, I need to get rid of the scale and my need for immediate gratification!

What a terrible place

See what happens when the Supreme court allows Lebanese marriages? Destroying marriages, just like they said!

I don’t see why the government should have a say in why you’re getting married. Marriages of convenience aren’t illegal. An 80 year old millionaire can marry a 20 year old model without anyone questioning the validity of the marriage. So what if you get married for immigration purposes? The USA will basically sell a…

Yeah! I was thinking I’m sort of down on my luck a little bit. Is it still fraud if I actually marry someone for money? Romance ain’t been so good to me so may as well give Long-Term Committment Prostitution a shot.

Okay, so obviously those dudes who troll in tour groups to Eastern Europe to find “love” *cough subservient women *cough and end up married like 3 days later are totally legit right? There’s nothing wrong with that? At least this shit is completely up front about the fuckery.

“So what we have here is, most likely, a male, white, middle class, wannabe writer, thinking he’s making a sly joke to what he assumes is a male writer.”

A few things:

1)The readers are not “industry professionals”, they’re usually college kids or assistants making some extra cash writing notes for the academy. More often than not they’re wannabe writers themselves.

Good for her. This is the kind of situation where, in order to call out sexism, you need to make yourself a bit vulnerable (if you’ve never had your writing critiqued in this fashion, you’re probably underestimating how it feels.) It takes guts to say, “hey, I know my work isn’t Shakespeare, but it’s not garbage, and…