She didn’t join the committee to prevent anyone from being exposed to it, she joined the committee because she didn’t think that Dessen’s work, which was apparently under consideration, was up to the standards of what the program was supposed to be. How is that an issue that she had a particularly strong opinion about…

“The issue here is that what she did went well beyond “not liking the book””

One thing I’ve learned from following writers on Twitter is that 99 percent of them, no matter what level of fame they’re at, have Google Alerts on their name.

A Bret Stephens level of fragility is a good place to start.

From her tweets, she seems like the type who very closely monitors the Google Alert she set up for her own name.

The problem with this is the power difference. Bestselling, millionaire authors with large fan bases are attacking an unknown college student and pretending the criticism actually hurts them in any real way. It doesn’t.

Right? Someone has some Google alerts for their name mentions.

how in the world did this writer find out about this article to begin with?

Remove the google alert on your name. It will make your life much better. 

asdkfjdk my GOD woman, get your head out of your ass. Sarah, you write shitty teen romance YA, you’re not out here writing the next Booker Prize novel. Of course a college junior, who is presumably in her twenties and you know, at university to challenge herself academically, wants to read something with more…

How would Dessen even find this criticism?

Its weird how F went from meme, to ironic serious, to unironic, to this weird semi ironic meme which is sometimes serious depending on the situation.

“I had to include at least one song about hating Margaret Thatcher” - Bands need to start doing this again. Imagine the bangers we could have about Boris! 

Articles like this are why you’re one of my favorite writers on Kotaku, Gita. I love ideas like this! Definitely going to do this in the future for myself.

Any team the Pats beat are awful. Don’t you know anything? If the best team in the league beats you, it means that you are so fucking bad that they shouldn’t even count it as a win for the Pats. The only team that counts if they beat is the Chiefs, but even then it should only count as a tie.

GOD! It’s like you don’t…

Add them to the list of Jews for Trump, college-educated antivaxxers, and Clarence & Ginny Thomas

A trans woman against gay marriage?