I get that Gawker needs occasional ~craaaazy Japan~ pageclicks, but come on, reportage about a handbook written like 60 years ago? COME ON. Japan has enough white perverts flocking to get a taste of that “crazy, repressed hentai culture.” Japan does not NEED THIS.

Great, are you telling me that now that guy has bought both Viagra and the female libido enhancer?

ummmmm i need to see this movie asap. also my husband needs to come home right now. *fans self/pants*

Yeah, I feel like Madeleine probably knows that, but “peaked” worked to make a joke.

Especially because his brain is behind such an adorable face!

omg this is relevant to my interests. I ADMIRE HIS BRAIN MKAY

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You just keep being perfect Tom. And keep showing that butt.

you know what else is peaked? MY INTEREST MY NIPPLES.

They may have an agreement. Regardless, it’s none of our business. What we do know is that she is a Hillary acolyte, so it shouldn’t be surprising if she makes plays from the same playbook that has Hillary poised to be the first woman president. I respect the fact that she’s doing what she thinks is best for her life…

It really bums me out that most people do think of her as essentially a romance novelist, because, even though I like well-written romance novels myself, she’s doing so much more and it’s always meant to suggest that her work is not of the highest quality. Her writing is essentially un-romantic because her characters…

Great points! I only read a tiny bit of her juvenilia many years ago; I should look at it again. Essentially, I think she was an Enlightenment mind commenting on the Romantic movement and sensibility gaining ground as far as her ‘romantic’ heroes and heroines go and just a steady-eyed critic of the every day reality…

Bingo—and Pride and Prejudice, with all of this going for it, offers the most straightforward small-r romantic plot and final marriage. Austen herself worried that it might be too “light, and bright, and sparkling.” You look at the other novels—Sense and Sensibility’s marriages are downright bleak (Elinor marries a…

My favorite Lit. teacher once said that the dancing was definitely “a vertical representation of an horizontal idea”;)

That’s SUCh a myth about no bathrooms at Versailles! THERE WERE BATHROOMS (not yelling at you, but at your teacher). http://www.frockflicks.com/crap-at-versai…

What’s romantic about P and P? One woman marries a man she (and everyone else) knows to be a buffoon. Another marries a biddable nothing, a third a villain of no small proportions, and the great romance is between Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth says that she fell in love with Darcy when she saw his house and Darcy’s…

i’m not an austen fan, but i am a dresses and costumes and pretty stuff fan which is why this sounds delightful.