I'll bet he was mad because she'd just blacked the stove and got some of it on the floor.

I was always oddly fascinated by the descriptions of what they ate. Particularly in Farmer Boy.

Are you kidding?! I love, love, LOVE my foot calluses. If I was flexible enough I would kiss them. Daily. Mind you, there are caveats.

That was my first thought as well, and then I remembered that I came of age in the 1970s, and these types of sexual assaults (which were so frequent I've lost track) were not taken seriously—your friends would laugh and anyone in a position of authority would accuse you of bringing it on yourself.

I will devour this like so much maple sugar snow candy.

Maybe shoes in olden times were even harder on the feet than ladies' shoes today.

EXACTLY. The author is saying she gave up her dignity in the first place so, what, all bets are off? She got what's coming to her?

Yeah well when we all have to run out of our houses when we are invaded by space jerks with no time put on our shoes, and you are hobbled by your dainty, soft feet on the asphalt and you fall behind only to be vapourised by the deadly deadly space rays while I bound ahead to safety with my gnarly tyrannosaurus feet…

Just think of it this way: hobbits could NEVER take their shoes off at the door because their feet ARE their shoes.

Good luck, girl. As someone who's worked with VH1/Viacom, I find it VERY hard to believe that your 50-page contract gives you any type of loophole through which you could sue them.

Why you gotta hate on the hobbits, eh?

It's almost as if, by being naked and agreeing to have her parts blurred, she was ASKING for that agreement to be violated! See? Naked = asking for it!

Well yeah - I dunno. I read "told her her parts would be blurred" as "it was in her contract that her parts would be blurred" because otherwise, it seems like she wouldn't have a case at all and it wouldn't be worth writing about.

But—just to add another data point for Malcire—I've lived *most* of my life in either small rural towns or smaller (around 100,000 people) cities, and I've seen it at least once in all of them, from the guy who used to jerk off in the public library when I was a kid to the dude in the CHILDREN'S underwear section at…

Wow. Where do you live. I'm going to want to avoid there (seriously never seen it myself). Worst I've seen is someone pantomiming it.

I've had men say vulgar things to me on the street, make kissy noises/other gross noises, try to pick me up, follow me, yell at me from cars, sexually harass me, do numerous rude and offensive things… but I've never had a stranger physically touch me or JERK OFF toward me.

By staring at them and pointing their dick at them while masturbating.