The constant need to center white men is going to get us all killed.

She should, but now the bar is set so that if she whines about it and releases something that is almost but not quite her medical history, we’ll have to count that as just as good as Platner’s non-apology, right?

It would be lovely for Platner if he were to do the work of understanding why having a Nazi tattoo for decades is wrong, and that work will make him a better man. I don’t see why white liberal men have such a hard on for him, nor do I think he should be handed a Senate seat before he does the work.

Instead it looks like he’s holding in a fart.

to find essays about existential dread instead. Even if you like both those things, you want what you paid for.

I'd be interested -- I like literary fiction from small presses -- but I'm also very aware that that is a niche interest. And no one looking for obscure literary fiction is going to be happy to be surprised to find a romance, just as I'd expect anyone picking up a romance-coded cover would be happy

They look like literary fiction from a small press, which is fine if they are literary fiction, which famously sells in much smaller numbers than romance, so good luck to them, I guess.

Congratulations!

Oh, man, I had to block that creep myself.

I think that you should probably step away and go for a walk and think hard about whether this is the hill you want to die on. Maybe think about whether you want to agree so fully with Megyn Kelly here.

I'd invite you to watch this very short bit as an explanation as to why people are reacting to your point the way they are.

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