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Well, you are entitled to your opinion, but you won't make a literary scholar I'm afraid.

You can't possibly think that Kipling is better than Woolf? Also, Woolf was modernism. In any construction of modernism, Joyce and Woolf are the two indispensable figures.

Don't worry. These days there are plenty of academics trying to shove him out of the canon. He seems to be going out of fashion once and for all.

Rudyard Kipling got one. Virgina Woolf did not. I'll never take it seriously.

If Chris Brown came out and said that he was raped, I wouldn't downplay it. But he doesn't identify himself as a victim and it's still not clear what happened here. Did the 14 year old rape him? Did he participate in the assault of the 14 year old? Because the fact that he brought his cousins into the story makes me…

The only thing I'm clear on is that Brown had a messed up childhood. Even before this incident with the teenage girl, he was being shown porn by other children. I think showing an 8 year old porn is a kind of abuse, too.

Ok, after reading the rest of the discussions here, I've decided there are other options. It's possible that he was raped but didn't experience trauma, so in that case he wouldn't technically be lying. Or he might have raped the girl. People automatically assume that when there's an age difference, that the older…

No matter how we read this story, we have to assume that he's lying. Either he's telling the truth that he had sex at 8, and therefore he was raped and therefore we have to assume that he's lying about it being a positive thing in order to cope with the trauma. Or he's exagerating about how early he had sex in order…

I love Flea. I still think he's a good example, though. Because he's naked, but he's not thought of as a slut who has to compensate for a lack of ability. He's also not required to be "hot" before we can recognise him as talented. Plenty of genuinely talented women have been slut-shamed for dressing skimpy, for…

Sorry, I thought that "white" was on the list in your comment. Don't know how I did that.

How did you get the idea that I'm saying Rihanna is ugly?

It bothered me that his shoe is reflected right under her crotch in one of the photos.

Tell that to the person who wrote an article about how bored she is with Rihanna's be-thonged arse.

"Beauty standards are too narrow." That is a valid point. "Women are valued more for their appearance than their musical talent." That would have been a valid point. "Beauty is a prerequisite for a woman to exist no matter how talented she is." That would have been a fair point.

I'm going to raise money to start a charity that will protect people in Africa from charities like Invisible Children.

I think I'd much rather live in a world where people are desensitised to female nudity rather than one in which female nudity is considered a shocking big deal, an affront against moral standards that must justify itself by making a statement about sex/power/whatever. So if Rihanna is going to make that happen for me,…

Right? Would Sinead just leave the prostitutes alone already? She's a bit older and should know better. She's also kidding herself if she thinks she was avoiding being judged based on her looks because she wore a jumper in that video. If you're a woman in a patriarchal culture, playing by patriarchy's rules isn't…

Canadian. Or maybe Canadi-Un.