This kid is a dick and I’m not feeling sorry for him (I assume if he’d been subjected to the more onerous conditions of solitary confinement, his lawyer would’ve detailed them), but a lot of the responses here are over the top. Rather, they’re perfectly in line with people who don’t know much about what it’s like to…

I don’t own a car, nor did I ever care for bumper stickers, but that motto is so great it makes me want to buy a car just to put that bumper sticker on it.

I can give the franco-haters some room and forgive them for not catching the meaning of the reference, but if you’re trying to act like you’re a defender of French actresses and you didn’t understand that I was making fun of the “ugh. one expression” people by naming Isabelle Huppert, well, buddy, I have news for you…

I’m not actually sympathetic to the argument that French actresses suck. If you think there’s nothing interesting going on there, I suggest you watch Kieslowski’s Three Colors. If you’ve done that, and still think it’s boring, well, I will politely disagree. (And by “politely disagree” I mean that I will quietly think…

You could easily put together a similar collection of shots from every great French actress ever. UGH All Isabelle Huppert does is grimace LOL!

1. How to use Snapchat.

I love that explanation for bangs and can’t stop laughing at “crushed railroad penny.”

I don’t think there are significant differences, which is part of why I’m bothered by how Gabaldon pulled it together overall. The whole sadism business isn’t necessary if you want to tell a story about a guy getting raped and how that affects his marriage and life choices moving forward. It really was enough to just…

For the entire world to run exactly like America, duh. Also, for Australia to annihilate some of those scary creatures you’ve got running around. Surely there’s some environmentally ruinous chemical treatment you could use!

I’m including myself in the people who should be laughed at for this. Because my immediate response to reading the “Feb - Nov” detail was “that’s fucking weird” before I was like “oh, that’s summer for them.”

I have no opinion of the book, I just had to star the chart.

The school year in Australia runs from Feb-Nov,

I appreciate your comments and agree with a lot that you are saying. I did not mean to suggest that everyone who found the acts depicted repellant was motivated by homophobia, but I do find it disturbing how little analysis of the scenes has considered that aspect. We can’t seriously believe that there is not a…

I assumed GregSamsa’s “he’d’ve converted to Catholicism” was a bit of dark humor and my correction was in the same vein. I dunno, maybe GregSamsa really does believe that child molesters convert to Catholicism because it will enable their crimes, but I doubt it.

He’d’ve converted to Catholicism, rather than railing against the religion for years.

I’m not going to pretend to have anything close to an eidetic memory, or reliable recall of the permutations the header has been through. You could be right about it being there at some point. I just have a strong and consistent memory of them (sensibly) avoiding the sort of arguments that follow from explicitly…

Oh, really? If we’ve covered it so well, how come weddings/marriage default to masculinist traditions like the bride taking the husband’s last name, the bride being “given away” to the groom, the bride wearing virginal white, etc., etc.

Long form think pieces are not generally considered marketing.

Ehhhhh... I’m one of those people who’s been reading Jezebel since the beginning and they’ve always been cagey on the feminist point. Not that they don’t obviously employ feminists, care about feminism and cover feminist issues. Just, they’ve always been cautious about branding the site as feminist. In part because…

I don’t know this Cristen person and I’m sure she’s a lovely human being, but it’s pretty fucking ridiculous to see someone being pretty fucking disappointed that a “feminist website” (that, btw, has repeatedly and explicitly refused to market itself as “feminist”) hasn’t done enough to glorify a fucking wedding that…