You’re whining about the fact that some of the whiniest, most selfish, most sheltered people on the planet — TV writers and producers — aren’t making parenthood look more attractive for you. Ffs.

Guessing you were there during the Skorton years?

You should never doubt that a university will sue you if you do anything that can be seen as damaging their brand. Including suing them.

Editors and agents stopped having anything to do with writing decades ago. Same with publisher’s reps. I really miss the days of talking to smart people who did those jobs, people who could really read and cared greatly about books, and were generally interesting people. Now they’re garden-variety bits of marketing…

Because men skew to horrible. Much more than women do. That’s my considered opinion after decades of hanging with men and women.

I really just don’t trust men anymore, and I try not to be alone with them. It’s one thing at work, or in a restaurant or something where there’s lots of people around, but I’ve seen too…

Oddly enough,

So...gay lecturer or very senior assoc. prof trying to relive prep school days. Medievalist or French theology person. In the area. Shitting bricks, no doubt. Wonder who.

I’ve watched this 18 times and I still don’t understand it

You know what’s great? With very few exceptions, I have absolutely no idea who these people are or what they’re famous for. Never heard of most of them.

Exception: if “I feel like” is followed by “a motherless child”, then that’s fine.

Then gather up your balls in your hand, honey, and make your point clearly instead of hoping the assembled will take pity on your feelings.

Nope. Nope nope nope. I police the hell out of that shit, because it’s almost always a replacement for thought. If I ask “Why do you feel that way,” the answer’s usually that the student doesn’t know, hasn’t thought about it, and is at best inarticulate, at worst resorting to and legitimizing prejudice. If you want to…

Nah, good for them. I did the same a while back and the quality of my life improved tremendously. It was like any bad relationship - you had a great time at first, and then it was iffy, and then for a long time it was simply shit, but you kept hoping things would improve, and then one day you realized that it wasn’t…

Sure you do.

I’ve been actually, unwanted penis-in-various-orifices raped.

Aaand...when she did those photo shoots, who made the decision to do it? Who, ah, gave her consent?

And who gave her consent here?

You’re welcome. Please use your own brain next time instead of relying on other people to do the obvious-recognizing for you.

Uh...that’s not killing “for the girlfriend or wife”. The gf or wife is not saying, “Honey, please go murder that guy for me.” These men see the gf or wife as objects that rightly belong to them and shouldn’t be making them feel bad by having free agency and will and legs to walk out the door with.

Most men I’ve ever had to do with, and most men any of my friends and any woman I’ve talked with online have had to do with, are not all that far from violence, screwing women over, criminality, and generally shitty, irresponsible, blame-other-people-for-their-lives behavior.

Thought it was meh and anodyne when it came out, but that it was excusable because as Christian pop went, I mean it was kind of hard to criticize. Now it’s just meh and anodyne — and this is what you’re listening to when there’s an entire Prince catalogue to revisit? Mm.

The fact that twitter allows this kind of shit is why I walked away from twitter altogether. They don’t give a shit about this stuff, Anna. Stop supporting their business, stop supporting their platform. People have plenty of other ways of getting in touch with you, and no, you don’t actually need to reading twitter…

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