Growing up, nothing about those two flirting hard was creepy. Now, I realize a character like that would probably be constantly after underage girls.

The media up here is saying it was a mini-hockey stick, which doesn’t make what they did at all better, but adds a little mechanical clarity to the image of someone spanking someone with a hockey stick...

- That it was really inappropriate for Vince Fontaine to be flirting with Marty.

It’s embarrassingly how much of this I just realized by reading the article. The what made Sandy sick thing only just clicked.

That is so beautiful and puts into words exactly what I feel.

Corporal punishment is the wrong way to go even when it’s just open-handed hitting on the bum, but hitting her so hard she was left with bruises and cuts? Jesus.

Spank implies the hand. This was fucking assault.

Even without it being leather, it’s very obviously being used as a whip.

You and I usually don’t agree, but when it comes to the definition of spanking, I think we can all agree that a hockey stick and a jump rope are not included in that definition.

Tears. Actual tears.

This needs to go straight to the top. Heartbreaking, and spot the fuck on.

“Assault” is the correct term for hitting someone with a fucking hockey stick.

we don’t spank our kid but, yeah, if you’re bringing objects into it, it’s a whole ‘nother ball game.

Yeah, that sounds more like a beating.

spanked their 14-year-old daughter with a hockey stick and a jump rope

I watched it under similar circumstances (I was drinking wine and shredding brussel sprouts) and couldn't believe how dull everything/everyone was. Even the sex scenes were dull.

Oh, the writing is infinitely worse because 1) the descriptions are terrible and repetitive, 2) it’s difficult to be sexy when a woman keeps describing her vagina as “down there”, and 3) Anna’s “inner goddess” bullshit.

You need more like 10 bottles of wine for the book.