oliviapjones
OliviaPJones
oliviapjones

I mean I get it - I’m awkward and, if I don’t know anyone at a party, will gravitate towards the only person I recognize even if I don’t like them much.

Why is sick in quotes? Why is anything anymore? Can we be done with this whole thing now?

Some fans doubt the authenticity of the female narrator’s voice when it is delivered by a male author.

I’m picturing a future where women submit books to publishers under male pen names to increase likelihood of being considered, and then are advised by their publishers to adopt a female name for future marketability.

man are garbage

One of the authors featured has gone so far as to try on a bra so he didn’t make any obvious mistakes that might throw female readers out of the story. 

A lot of of old school Harlequin/Mills & Boon novels were written by men. As a kidlet reading them, I always wondered why the men were so mean until the last three pages and the women so weak....once I found out that fact as an adult, I understood.

*kills black person because they’re black

There is nothing wrong with complimenting a woman’s beauty if that woman is your wife or girlfriend.

I was never really invested in my rights as a woman when I was younger. I felt like some men were pigs and deviants (rapists, cat callers and the like), but that the overwhelming majority of people were good. I knew a lot of powerful women through my family and friends (business owners, cops and the like) and felt

I’m even okay with colleagues saying, “You look nice tonight,” when it’s something where people are dressed up - it can be said right back and it’s not necessarily creepy, although I’m sure you can make it creepy. But I would never then turn to their spouse and say it ABOUT them, in front of them, like they’re a

You can VISIBLY SEE BRIGITTE BECOME UNCOMFORTABLE and move closer to Melania 

He says he wants the two of you to come together, but doesn’t wait for you to get there.

I can’t. I can’t make jokes about this, or find it funny, or think “oh jeez THIS guy” or any of that fucking bullshit. Because at the end of the motherfucking day, I am raising my daughter in a world that is REGRESSING instead of PROGRESSING in terms of women’s rights and that makes me fucking sick to my stomach. It

I am just so embarrassed.

And everyone knows he meant, “for your age.”

The immediate change of tone in his voice when he realizes who she is.

The windows weren’t too dark to see a black lady driving a nice car.

There was a British mini-series based on his socks, which is pretty impressive.

Eleven hundred men went into the water, 316 came out. Mary Lee took the rest!