They love a wild girl, a ’60s type girl, who will get naked and listen to them talk about film...

Women in the culture industry deal with this shit almost without exception. Dudes can’t imagine they’re anything but liberal and feminist and that sexual harassment is really just them being “free” and “tranagressive” and “real.” It’s a dirty game that I’m happy to have left.

It is not.

Just read every word. Cannot even rouse myself to write something cynical and biting. Feel profoundly depressed. This sleazy microcosm of the world in which we live and are expected to achieve some degree of success. This is not an outlier.

It always was :-) . . . :-| . . . :-/ . . . :-(

It’s not just museums, it’s everything. People think everything is a playground, especially parents with little kids. Everything is a photo op waiting to happen.

Not as old, but the student prison in Heidelberg has super fun graffiti:

This is from the Temple at Edfu in Egypt:

The difference being that ancient graffiti has archaeological value and is part of the study of the site.

Yeah. That was our sentiment.

... she stole human remains from one of France's most 'revered' mass graves. OF FUCKING COURSE SHE GOT IN TROUBLE.

No, it was real. Without question. What I meant was that she thought of it as an object, and not a part of a person.

Even if it was a fake, who cares? Why would she think she was entitled to take it?

I really think that it's because she didnt think of it as human. She was really, really shocked that she got in trouble over this. She got very snotty.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

It sounds horrendous, but I may have you beat. Imagine crawling for 10 minutes through passages in a pyramid with a huge ass a foot away from your nose to get to a tomb at the centre of a pyramid, and you get there only to find it is super boring and full of loud sweaty Russian tourists taking flash photos of…

When my husband and I went to the Paris Catacombs a woman (blond, American, and - it turned out - extremely wealthy) pried a child-sized skull out of the wall and shoved it into her purse. Thankfully, there was a guard sitting by the door who checked everyone's bag as they exited. Apparently, people try to steal human…

That and penises. There are SO many penises in old graffiti. People don't change.

Idiots. And honestly, with my extremely limited knowledge of the Italian legal system, I'm fairly confident I'd be on my best behavior there and try not to piss anybody off by doing stupid things like this. Throw the book at them.

This tip belongs in the same book as "Don't take a duck lips selfie at Auschwitz."