I'm incredibly frustrated with the number of smart people conflating those two concepts all over this post. Yes, there are very valid reasons some people choose not to embrace the feminist label. However, none of those reasons are the one articulated in the post, which contains quotes almost exclusively from rich,…

What does Sean Penn or Mark Wahlberg have to do with this?

Brown's own recovery

And how does anyone here know what really happened in that situation? How do we know that that young 14 year old girl wasn't coerced or bullied into having sex with an 8 year old by a group of older boys??? I have SEEN this kind of shit go down with my own eyes when I was younger. It was horrible.

You deserve a cookie for reading that entire thing. My eyes glazed over by the TL;DR summation.

Not only did you provide me with a single concrete target to project my fears and insecurities and Orientalist desires upon, you gave me someone to compete with, which is what I was implicitly doing every time I put my ideas to paper. I was trying to prove my eloquence and brilliance to someone whose own eloquence and…

A fungal infection

Is it too much to hope she'll Yoko Ono Nickleback??

Hockey stick tape?

What is that thing on his chin?

But he is not considered one of the Greats. In American high schools, he is routinely taught because his language is easy and on the surface, uncomplicated. He has therefore systematically been reinforced as part of the canon, not so much out of merit but out of habit. To pry Hemingway out of American schools seems…

Another Hem-hater here. Glad to hear it, would much rather he be remembered as a not-unsuccessful writer of short stories than as one of The Greats.

Me three. And past grad work in literature didn't manage to disabuse me of my troglodytastic impression of his work. The opposite, in fact.

I've been getting that same reaction for 40 years. I find his work only slightly more palatable than that of Ayn Rand.

It's still lame.

I wish I could remember who told me the other day that I was an unwashed barbarian (eh, I exaggerate for humor) for failing to appreciate the Greatness That Was Hemingway.

Call me uneducated, but this guy is a writer? For me, when writing long sentences, there is a line between writing something that flows well and articulates its points clearly, and a sentence that sounds like a 12 year old writing about their summer vacation. This sounds like the latter. I mean come on: I would THIS…

Ugh, Hemingway. I'll never understand how he somehow got a Nobel and Borges, Nabokov, Joyce and Twain never won. (Then again, the list of authors who won over Twain is just dumbfounding.)

I am totally with you here. As someone going into the field of sexual trauma, we learn early on in this field that everyone (emphasis on EVERYONE) experiences and responds to trauma differently. I know a lot of older men that were physically abused by their parents when they were growing up, because at the time, it…

Since there were a few comments who mentioned it: even though it was rape, it doesn't necessarily mean that he was damaged by it. there are circumstances, especially when there are sexual acts between kids or teenagers that both partys wanted it an enjoyed it and are traumatised after the event, when they realize,…