But did she tweet about it, triggering a horde of angry tweeters to bully some random lady they didn’t know?

As someone who is Dessen’s age, I feel fully confident in saying “Sarah, honey, you’ve got to grow up and get over yourself.” Nothing, especially not a minor slight from a college kid, ever pushed me into going on an all-day twitter rant.

And after that tweetstorm, it is probably a very necessary grudge that has expanded to include Picoult and Weiner as well.

She didn’t join the committee to prevent anyone from being exposed to it, she joined the committee because she didn’t think that Dessen’s work, which was apparently under consideration, was up to the standards of what the program was supposed to be. How is that an issue that she had a particularly strong opinion about…

“The issue here is that what she did went well beyond “not liking the book””

Of course young women are allowed to dislike books “written for them.” (Although it’s worth noting that intended audience is a marketing concern, not a literary one. Most of us can get something out of most books, regardless of whether or not we’re the intended audience, and thank god for that. Reading books you’re…

I was particularly disturbed by Dessen’s tweets about how this one young woman’s opinion was ‘mean and cruel’ and had ruined her day. It seems this 50 year old woman has less emotional maturity than the 15 year old kids she writes about.

The problem with this is the power difference. Bestselling, millionaire authors with large fan bases are attacking an unknown college student and pretending the criticism actually hurts them in any real way. It doesn’t.

so is this just cool to do to men? write articles about how ugly they are?

I’m convinced Nicole Kidman is becoming more and more translucent that she’s going to turn into a ghost.

This is a digression. The Ken Burns country music doc was soooooo great, but I missed Kenny Roger from the coverage. Meanwhile Dolly and Reba were all over the place. I missed Kenny, because The Gambler is such an important 70s album. Anyway, I wonder if Kenny refused interviews because of his plastic surgery face.…

Can you believe he decided to make his body look how he wanted his body to look?!?!?!?! Can you believe he chose a certain way to present himself to the world?!?!!? Can you believe it?!

Definitely the look I’d go for!

Yea, like I get that his whole thing is to be the opinionated brash judge on national television but this whole article just comes off as mean spirited. As Big Hurt Feelings points out below, this site treated Renee Zellweger’s plastic surgery much differently. Maybe that’s due to Cowell’s role in AI or something else…

He’s getting older and he’s desperately fighting it.

Making fun of people for getting bad plastic surgery just feels so mean to me. It’s sad more than anything else, I think.

Misread the beginning and fully had no problem believing that Simon Cowell was once in a boy band called Svengali

Ah, yes, Picasso, who is most famous for strictly adhering to the standards of conventional beauty, a very good artist to be nicknamed after when you are in the business of splicing bits of face together for purely aesthetic purposes! Sign me up!

Yeah, that’s why I said Raisen seems to have a case. If his story is true, there should be physical evidence of it as well as witnesses.

I considered doing a “music copyright explainer” but I have too much work to do.