I’m a dominant woman, too, and I think your response is right on. I don’t think this piece necessarily precludes a conversation about dominant women and submissive men, though. Rather, to me, it seems like a great place to start these conversations.

What are you tassaultking about

Came to ask this, so bless you.

reminds me of our girl Angela and Marc Jacobs

“hey how’s it going” “I LOVE MY MOTHER MORE THAN MY DAD”

Mock away, but I love Céline. She’s always entertaining. I also met her a few times when I was little and she couldn’t have been sweeter. Céline fan 4 life bitches!

It’s when you become aware that you DIDN’T ASK TO BE BORN.

You sure know how to pick great gifts for your kids! I’m all over the place talking about my newly out trans daughter since I finally can...I got her a bunch of new outfits and can’t wait to watch her open her presents.

I’m in that special! Waving a sign. With my ex-best friend. Oh those are some bittersweet DVD pauses.

That special is wonderful, and it’s been too long since I’ve watched it. Must see again soon.

What I find absurd and melancholy is that fact that it would appear that I am now banned from Gawker websites. The reply button after the articles is gone for me. Sorry to intrude.

IKR?
The crass wrong-headedness. The desperation. Not knowing right from wrong. Throwing in a little evidence of a thread of humanity.

Very tangentially - oddly if it were a rich person’s list, it would say stuff like:
Raise business tenant’s rent so exponentially, they have to shutter their doors.

Its an odd era in…

This list is a grim portrait of poverty in America. Can’t feel anything but pity for these people.

This is the saddest, darkest comedy I've seen in a while. I mean that sincerely. This is so fucking absurd, but melancholy.

Hmph. Well, I’m happy she’s happy about it.

So your homegrown racism is acceptable? If thus venue was in South Carolina would your response be different?

That was quite a revelatory thread, wasn’t it? The writers’ feelings about their audience were on full display.

Vikram Seth and Alexander McCall Smith come to mind, both of whom seem like they were heavily influenced by Austen in terms of style.

Gabrielle Zevin, who I will never stop recommending on Jezebel, wrote THE HOLE WE’RE IN, about (among many things) evangelicals, arrogant secular anti-evangelicals, a future in which abortion has been made illegal, young people with no employment options except our wars, the financial strains of the middle class and…

I coached my 6-1 daughter to respond to, “do you play basketball?” with, “no, do you play miniature golf?”