Maybe I’m missing something (I’m not a writer), but I really don’t get this. Countless women have written (in detail) about their own sexual experiences - why can’t male authors take that as a starting point to write scenes that read halfway plausibly?

King writes a damn good 84% of a novel. The rest is always iffy. And keep your fingers crossed for an ending that doesn’t make you wanna casually knock the book into the “donate” pile.

And she got the idea because her abusive dad tried to molest her to see if she’d been having sex with the boys. That scene is so intense and horrible and THAT’S where Bev gets her big idea? That’s the part that bothers me the most, in a way.

This is such an interesting dissection of that scene. I really can’t remember how old I was the first time I read the book, but like everyone else, I found The Scene jarring and out of place. This article articulates something that I never realized was a big part of the problem: A girl using sex not for her own…

Did Trent Reznor have a garage sale? Since it sounds like she purchased his Year Zero synths.

My sister is a nurse practitioner. Her job is very difficult, stressful and at the same time she finds it rewarding because she saves children’s lives every day. I cannot express how angry this story makes me and I only wish his firing is the least of the repercussions he will face.

The “Greek god” comment is very telling.

Good to know, thank you. I live in the RoI - have lived here for 13 years and I still don’t quite get the NI politics. It took a while before I got a handle on the RoI politics, to be honest. It boils down to the fact that there’s no difference between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. :)

It’s totally possible to be both (I was, a long time ago) but it’s impossible to be a womanizer and a feminist, which is really the grosser accusation here.

See the thing is the Nazi crowd and other factions of the alt right have been carefully brought together by the manipulators of the bunch (including Bannon who specifically brought Milo on board in order to court the Gamergate crowd) and part of that crowd is The Red Pill, a bunch of misogynistic fuckwits who don’t…

The east coast of the US does not lack for people of Irish descent. Still, I can’t tell you the number of people who don’t what a “Siobhan” is. I’m not a “See-ob-han”, but I know plenty, and they have great stories of being in grade school and the teachers calling attendance on the first day of school.

That French beach asshole - I can feel my blood pressure rising when I think about it. That had everything to do with some guy feeling great at humiliating a woman - I wanted someone to make him strip on a public beach, see how he liked it.

So effectively “we took this sure fire hit and made it “funny””.

I hate being stared at - for any reason. And I’m never without a hat (which unfortunately draws more attention). There’s a difference between being modest and making the statement “I do not want to be seen. And I definitely do NOT want to be seen “SEEING.”

I remember the morning so clearly, and can’t believe it’s been 20 years. My ex and I were moving from London to Bristol the next day (grad school for me, law school for him) and living in Westminster that summer with his parents. I woke up at 5:30am because I was worrying about all the last-minute things we needed to…

A discussion of the term Paddy Wagon. http://splinternews.com/a-complete-history-of-the-phrase-paddy-wagon-the-survi-1793855618 

I’m pretty sure it is, from back when a majority of the police force (NY at least) was Irish.

I think they’re very much the kind of “reflect the people in them” sort of organisations. If one year group statistically has a larger number of one flavour of denomination, the whole thing probably swings that way.

I’d rather not say, but it was the policy at two universities that are both in the UK top 10.