First, it’s surprising that you think Tony Abbott sucks – I’m assuming you mean this in respect to the dumbing down of an entire continent, the evisceration of funding for climate change research at the universities, and millions of other reasons, perhaps most currently compelling the detention of many-would be…

Someone who does not agree with you ≠ “troll.” I realise that Jezebel increasingly consists of third-wave objectivists, but it is a standard belief in the feminism founded in Continental philosophy (i.e. Marxism/Freudian-Lacanian psychology) that prostitution was terrible for women. This idea is strongly reemerging in…

Um, I know that you’re “Gawker royalty” what with your ungreyed status and increasingly “wacky, zany” user name, but, this is a public message board that generates its advertising rates by clicks, not imaginary celebrity status. My click is as good as yours. Funny how all the people hear who are so boisterous about…

Yes, that paragraph is in the article, I actually read it.

Since I complain so much and so often about the exaltation of “sex workers” on this site, quick kudos for having the nerve to write and run a story that allows that prostitution might actually not be a good thing, without the equivocating “but empowerment / Belle Knox / you do you girl!” disclaimer.

Places in the Heart (1984) was set in the 1930s but I thought it did a good job of showing how the antebellum South was not yet passed in the minds of its inhabitants...

“But why male models?”

No, I’m serious. Many conversations with that one about her and her husband’s very white, STEM-fellowship, Phd programs, those of their respective parents, etc. There was a thread some months ago about their (naturally very patrician) nude bondage photos that was probably my favourite (in a sick way) in the entire…

Don’t get her started; she’ll go on and on about her “Ivy League” “education” and so on...

I think the product placement, which is never subtle, must also be a bit awkward when you're forced to write posts that ridicule what is actually probably one of your larger demographics. I know Denton isn’t delusional enough to think that most of your hits come from 18-25 year olds and even if a large percentage do,…

Well, then you and Diosobella can form a self-righteous straight edge (except for embedded links to your sex blogs) club and STFU, how does that sound? I pray that you are never in the type or amount of pain that will tempt you off the path of virtue that you have chosen for yourself and so kindly dictated for other…

How about taking the time to read my comment, which indicates that I am not interested in “Mommy” stories at all, and am unlikely to read one about any of the varieties of “I’m overpopulating a dying planet!” tales.

St. Ridley Santos: where’ve you been? How is your grad school going? I just did a review of a book of translations, and my advisor “broke into” academia with a translation of a book, so good on you. That is a difficult and task. I love translating though, if I’d known how much, I would’ve gone more directly into that…

It would be such a great Kinja invention to be able to a) block specific user comments and b) block by topic tag. I don’t know what the tag would be for “Mommy Stories from the 1950s through the Haze of Nostalgia,” but I would like there to be one. If my eyes hadn’t fallen accidentally on the first sentence of this…

“And that’s not to toot toot my own horn or anything...”

You don’t say.

No. I’m saying that you and people like you are going to be the death of other people because of your deliberate, objectivist, special snowflake ignorance. Pray tell what else did “your people” do in your imaginary narrative? Paint the walls of the Chauvet Cave? Build Stonehenge? Write the Book of Kells?

And she still married you? Wow.

“All the same, restricting clientele to only the most conventional body types is deplorable and should be remedied posthaste.”

Yes, I definitively know it, because I’ve spent most of my life studying this subject. And my degree isn’t in Revisionist History from Upstairs from the 7-11 Slurpee Machine University. I don’t have to have been there, the same way I don’t have to have been in the cluster of neutrons that blew up into the sun, on the…