It obviously doesn't begin to compare to sexual assault, but I had to pull this on a guy who "borrowed" my chemistry book near the end of the school year, so he could sell it back to the bookstore. I literally stayed in the dorm for an extra two hours on my last day on campus because he said he was gonna get them back…

Considering how many people are raped every year, I'm betting she will get to some moms who have also been raped or assaulted fairly easily. I can't imagine finding out my kid threatened someone like that, he'd be grounded until he moved out on his own!

It happens sometimes but it's still worth doing.

Glad the mother was horrified instead of making some cliched remark about boys being boys or just kidding. Or turned into scary momma bear and how dare someone call out her snowflake.

This is incredibly satisfying. Nothing is more wonderful than the idea of misogynists having to admit their misogyny to the one woman who they think is somehow different. It's a beautiful thing.

My friend was sexually assaulted at a college party one night, so her boyfriend found the guy's home phone number and called his mother in the middle of dinner to tell him what he had done.

You had never seen a person repent so fast before.

Buy a spare black one and simply have a car guy paint it. Buddy of mine has a metallic candy apple red with a silver stripe on his, the auto place sprayed a clear poly over it that insane durable. But it has to be cured with a heat lamp and a fan blowing across it so the plastic does not warp and melt.

I think there's a lot going on in the piece that really ignores the ways in which these fantasies are located in the context of a giant capitalist industry that tells you your wedding day is the most important day of your life. I think we should resist that, question why we are marketted certain ideas about how a…

Yeah this is the thing- planning a wedding without the groom kind of makes me think you're just planning a party where you want to be the center of attention and there's a floating silhouette standing next to you where any guy can get swapped in or out. What if he doesn't want to get married? What if he's allergic to…

This is in no way a judgement of women who do fantasize about weddings from a young age, but personally, I just don't *get* the point of envisaging a wedding without having the person I want to marry in mind. Before I met my current boyfriend, I thought weddings were silly. Now that we've broached the subject of…

I know. Weird, right?

I know. Weird, right?

Well, I suppose it depends on what kind of romance novel you're talking about. Bodice rippers? Happy endings? Realistic portrayals of romance and relationships? Romance books, as a genre, tend to be paperbacks and don't get a lot of critical attention.

I don't get the whole hate-boner so many male critics have for romance novels. It's not like some of the greatest books of all time aren't essentially romance novels or stories.

I know everyone else loved this, but it's pretty much the moment that she moved from cute to annoying in my book.

Kate, it's almost Thanksgiving. Can we not start with the Christmasy stuff until after Thanksgiving, please? For me?

I like JanBow because it sounds like an aerobic exercise that I want no part of but which will become really trendy.