Agreed. I’ve only ever worked in customer service (help me) and it only takes a little bit of power to corrupt someone. Customers walk into situations expecting to be serviced and the economic success of certain businesses depends on keeping customers happy. 

“It’s only because I have done a number of things in the recent past that I’m starting to be able to sweat again”

Look, god grants these privileges to royals because they’re better than anybody else. It’s the job of everybody else to support them in every way. How else can we keep toxic anachronistic systems alive? Not to mention giving all due respect to inbred imbeciles like this.

The rich and powerful are literally programmed differently than you or I. This programming crosses national borders:

Is there ever a bad time to break up with Kelsey Grammer?

Caitlin, I have to ask, what leads you to describe the USA as “the greatest country on the world”? I’m not snarking, just genuinely curious. It doesn’t seem to be greatest on any metric that I’d consider great (human rights, child mortality, inequality, education, indigenous recognition, universal health care etc).

The comments on the original Jez article were a shameful cesspool of white feminism. SO many Jezzies were defending these white female authors piling on a grad student for suggesting that Dessen’s milquetoast YA novels may not have been the best choice for collegiate readers and that a book about discrimination in the…

So you’re saying the relationship between this family and their homeowners association has become a bit ... frosty?

MLIS holder, too!

Too many people in all fields (but esp artistic ones) can’t separate themselves from their work.

Oh these comments (and Picoult’s tweets) are comedy gold. The over-the-top mental gymnastics required to turn criticism of one female author into MISOGYNY is downright comedic. It requires the same level of intellectual dishonesty I’d expect of Breitbart commenters.

Brooke Nelson has internalized misogyny to the extent that she can see nothing of worth in books beloved by “teen girls” but is presumably impressed with the merits of a book centered around video game culture that is beloved by teenage boys

Since the movie is about what the FBI did to HER because of HER support of the Black Panthers and the fact that she was white and a celebrity, meaning they didn’t even give her special treatment or a pass, is the reason the film is being made.

Seberg was directly targeted by the FBI and stalked, threatened and harassed due to her support of the Black Panther Party. She was the victim of a deeply racist smear campaign. I agree that there should be more films and more widespread recognition on what happened to the Black Panther Party and those important…

Love to see the bootlicking takes going on in here. "The author is being somewhat petty, but I'm conflicted because a rich and powerful person shouldn't be very lightly criticized in a local newspaper. Gonna go ahead step over this massive issue of power dynamics involving a group of egomaniacs who start shit like…

I feel like this Twitter fiasco really should have been a quiet conversation between the author and her therapist about how she can better process professional criticism, especially when it comes from trivial sources that do not in any impact her career.

As if Jodi Picoult doesn’t write the most emotionally manipulative schlock in the English language.

Jodi Piccoult everybody

Well, the authors’ responses speak to a YA level of maturity. One random person with basically no platform doesn’t wanna read your book and this is the response?