I feel like I’ve seen a shift where men were thrilled just to see your boobs when fooling around, and now being completely jaded over anything less than a 3-ring sex circus. I know conventionally hot women in their 20s and 30s who will beg guys to come over and have sex and the guys are all “nah, I’ll stay home and…

She’s not for everyone - her style can be verbose and sometimes a bit academic, but on the whole she can write some very pithy sentences.

I feel guilty. My 2nd thought (my 1st was “oh for fuck’s sake”) was “I can’t wait to read Laura Kipnis’s book about this.” I love her writing and thought Against Love was just amazing.

Because her dom/master told her to, and without good public/private boundaries in place, she was used to obeying him everywhere. That’d be my guess.

That’s just deplorable. I’ve heard so many stories like that.

Agree. I’m in the scene and I believe strongly in the boundary between private and public. I’ve seen dommes humiliate their subs in a way that makes cashiers and servers uncomfortable, seen one dom spank his sub in a steakhouse while she squeaked “Daddy, no!” and have witnessed a man making his girlfriend/sub sit on…

I’ve seen many commenters say “But was it really rape, I mean, they’re married” so that message didn’t get through to everyone, unfortunately.

Are you saying that an anonymous soldier’s death has the same impact as Ned Stark? Different characters mean more to the audience and so does their suffering.

Yeah, writers can definitely be pretentious.

As a huge Adrienne Rich fan, that disappoints me. It’s one thing when Mr. Shiny Teeth from a CW show acts like a dick, but when it’s someone who you expect to be sensitive and compassionate - that’s a blow. If anything, she should have seen your effort as the touching compliment it was.

I don’t have interesting stories to go along with the encounters, but I can tell you that I’ve met Kristin Bauer (from True Blood), Scott Wilson (from The Walking Dead) and Jack Black and they were all kind and gracious.

Yeah, I think her death is pretty a much a symbol writ large of the fact that time period “killed off” women’s authentic selves. Women who chose (or had to) go the perfect wife & mother route and suffer through husbands like Don saw their freedom and future die. We all thought Betty would read The Feminine Mystique…

He admits that to him, not working is the only time he gets bummed out or depressed. And so he never doesn’t work.

I’m not a royal watcher and I was never particularly fascinated with Princess Di - but I do feel sad she didn’t live to be a grandmother. I bet that would have been adorable, Diana and her little granddaughter.

She should have had a hot final fling with Tag, then moved to Paris alone.

Thanks. A friend of mine is getting raked over the coals for wanting a divorce from her husband, who’s transitioning. Their kids (all grown) are treating her like she’s a monster and saying things like “You obviously never loved Dad or this wouldn’t matter. You’re selfish.” But she doesn’t want to be married to a…

In terms of middle age, some people do what what you said but then many do the opposite - they see their mortality and decide to get it while the getting is good. I know you haven’t seen the interview; Bruce says in it that he thought about getting cancer and dying without ever being his true self, and that’s partly…

Does anyone know if those kitten face nail stickers really stay on? I’ve never worn anything like that before but I have an event that I am dying to wear them to. How long do nail stickers generally stay on?

Elementary school for boys my own age. I had a kid who wouldn’t stop trying to kiss me in kindergarten and a boy who wouldn’t stop gazing at me and following me during 3rd grade and adults just laughed and told me essentially that my whole life would be like this. I was horrified. They thought it was cute.

Agreed. He deliberately tried to engage the other girls in conversation to shut her down. I don’t know what else he could have done, short of adopting a very stern tone. He saw a young girl practicing her wiles and tried not to embarrass her.