No, actually we would not. I do not want to know this information, or give this information, to people I don’t know. We often say to dudes that no one cares about their boners, but I actually don’t care about anyone’s unless it’s a true intimate. There are other forums to discuss these issues, and occasionally the…

You have a duty to tell her that it’s “passed,” not “past,” and then a civic responsibility to just cut her out of your life. She can spend her time rereading Atlas Shrugged and you can spend your time and emotional energy on people who have empathy and are psychological more normal.

LÖL. Wrote a PhD-length dissertation on a girl’s hairstyle in quarter-page photo in ultimate cultural arbiter Allure calling someone insane.

I’ve really learned a lot from this thread, thank you. I appreciate all the kindly illuminating stories. I guess I’ve really been oblivious. From the time I was little up until and including now, and even after having my eyes opened this way, I still feel pretty relaxed, I guess, about the DB.

Right...and that’s not what my comment was about, as the description of the behaviors in question clarified. The same cannot be said however of the faculty at Northwestern University: http://dailynorthwestern.com/2015/03/03/cam…

What I think I CAN say with some confidence, however, is that your assertions say more about you than the “nastiest, cheatiest, pettiest and most vindictive [intellectual body] in the world.” Don’t you?

I was responding to this comment, in the context that it wasn’t just the sports teams, and, in the very proof of the statement I had made about the university and its students and faculty, the pedants arrived in droves....

OK, thanks for helping me out with the pedantics, it reminds me of my days at the institution in question. By “it,” I mean you. It would be exceedingly like a member of the full faculty to not be able to make the leap of simple logic that in a post about Chicago, the institution in question was in that city.

Well, maybe the recent jubilation on Jezebel about the Ashley Madison situation has skewed our memory (and let’s not forget that both Sam Biddle and Isha Aran posted the link to the Fappening photos in their initial posts), but I think by and large people felt sad for Lawrence about the hack and about the crowing of…

Um, the University of Chicago...is a rather large academic institution...in Chicago? The various University of California entities, since there are so many of them, are usually referred to by their locations, i.e. UC Davis, UC Chico, UC Berkeley, UCLA etc.

Actually the academics at UC are widely regarded as the nastiest, cheatiest, pettiest and most vindictive in the world. In academia. That’s really saying something.

I do find her annoying, this is true. I find, to use an example of someone everyone seems to love but that I do not love, the character, and also the actor, Allison Janney is portraying on the sitcom Mom. The only reason I know about this show that is that I saw it once at a friend’s house and then never saw or heard…

I thought it was a very strange “promotional” appearance, in the sense that at the time she was (and probably still is) best-known in a dramatic sense for her pretty believable turn as an older teen in the HG series...like the largest fanbase was still probably Katniss aficionados. So in that context this conversation…

Sorry to inflict this knowledge upon you but in the interest of proving not exaggerating:

This is a dream come true, in the anti-matter/matter meeting dream come true sense. Hopefully these two most obnoxious people will simply cancel each other out and disappear into the third dimension. Schumer sprang forth fully formed into ick. I really liked Lawrence in Winter’s Bone and even the first HG...

Well, actually...you are saying the same thing, equating the airing of personal problems/tolerating infidelity to begin with with the “success” of remaining married. I understand that you are interpreting Brown’s writing differently than I am. I think this points to a problem with her writing style, though, and…

Rude, insensitive, poorly timed.

Wow, this is truly shocking...Jezebel going after someone who was up, then down, then way down...

That’s....not a real art history class. I realize a bunch of third wavers have collided with the frequently male, frequently ethically challenged faculties of ARH programs, but, fortunately, the tide has turned and we are driving the [fill in the grievance blank]-studies people back to the sociology department.

I realize the sentence refers to the couples’ quote and expressed intentions, but the analysis in the clause – so maybe this truly was helpful – is Brown’s, reinforcing that the “goal” of marriage is to remain married, no matter how poorly one or both parties behaves.