Older people born years before a younger person continuously harping on how young that person is, is so, so boring.

I don’t believe this anecdote at all. The excuse being that the executive said “no one will remember” does not hold up - the entire story of Tubman is of slavery. I just don’t believe this at all. 

This is what is so bizarre to me with the whole situation. All this women said was “they’re fine for teen girls.” Like...seriously? That is enough to cause this insane meltdown? Truly weird. 

So, I started reading some contemporary romance novels. I read the Jasmine Guillory books that have gotten a lot of buzz. I find them truly terrible. My librarian friend explained that that is just how a lot of romance novels are. It is very hard to support those books because a lot are just terrible. 

I disagree to a certain extent. I’ve found that there is much more pushback to criticism in the literary world - so if an author gets bad press or a bad review, that author and their supporters tend to overreact. I’m not sure why this is - maybe authorship seems more personal so people are more hesitant to criticize?

I am notoriously terrible at predicting twists (while my boyfriend is extremely talented at it - to the point where it is annoying) and I had no idea this was the twist. In fact I didn’t realize what was happening until it was spelled out for me at the end. I am now embarrassed realizing that everyone knew it was…

Could you or another commenter link to the crawling civil war ghost story? Thanks! 

That was my favorite. Extremely creepy. 

I have been reading Jezebel since I was in high school, so over 10 years now. I read all these stories when I lived at home with parents and through college. I had to stop reading them when I lived alone for a few years in my mid-20s. I now live with my partner so I am back to voraciously reading all of these.

This is my second comment but I’m so thunderstruck by this that I am flustered. I wanted to say that I have read this book, and one of the points in it is that her white fling ends up having struggles just like she does. So the message is really not “all white people are doing great.” I feel like some of these people…

This is wild. I read this book and I am also from Miami. I can’t believe this...

Isn’t it weird? I grew up with almost non-drinking parents. They weren’t alcoholics, my dad has always just been a contrarian and never drank (I have never seen him have a drink), and my mom would have a glass of wine after dinner every other day. I didn’t really drink much in college and still don’t. I remember going…

I felt myself slipping into some obsessive patterns over the last few years regarding food, and what has helped are people saying “look, eat the piece of cake, it’s not a big deal.” I cook generally healthy food and make sure I get my greens, but I also love to partake in a cheeseburger here and then. I’m happy.

I LOVE Bleached! Definitely watching this the second I get home. I just saw them for the third time, they’re so incredible. 

I was trying to articulate this in another comment but you did so better than I could. The coffee example is making people mad because so many of us who are struggling already DON’T buy coffee everyday. We already have cut back on extras. So this catch all “don’t buy Starbucks everyday and all your money troubles are…

The coffee example annoys people (especially millennials) because it has morphed into this weird catch-all for why millennials are broke. Telling someone to “just stop buying coffee” everyday is not going to make them a millionaire, not to mention that many people DON’T buy coffee every day. I make my own coffee at…

I guess this is an example of different perspectives, because if this happened to me and my boyfriend I would have just been happy to get on a flight and not have cared who sat where. 

Whenever I order food I keep my phone with me on loud for precisely this reason. 

I just don’t get people like this. I don’t like being bothered and inconvenienced when I’m out and about, thus, I don’t bother or inconvenience other people when we are all out and about. I have seriously seen so many couples move mountains just to sit next to one another on a two hour flight. It bothered me when I…

Just chiming in to say that my bf and I do not talk on flights. He immediately puts on headphones and closes his eyes, and I do the same or just read. We could easily not talk to each other during a flight.