"Die in a fire"? So unoriginal. At least come up with something like "die in a vat of boiling calamine lotion."

Anyway, you Holm skeptics are gonna eat your words after next week's column, "Don't Be a Dick, Time-Traveling Ernest Hemingway."

Shawn Fleck, you are as full of shit as Holms is. Holms gets a lot of flack not because she is a woman, but rather for the 'quality' of her writing and the lack of depth to her observations. If I had to guess, I'd say maybe half of her blogs are not even about feminism anyway. "Fully Embraces Class Structure" ?? Pretty fucking deep in the shit here Shawn. If her blog had as many negative references to say, black gay women as she makes to straight white men, she wouldn't even have a blog in the MERC. But then again, as a comic one learns the cheap easy jokes are bodily function jokes, right? Maybe she is just taking the same approach. And while certainly "poor and uneducated" people need to understand feminism (and man do you sound condescending there), I hope for and expect a certain level of journalism in the MERC - and Holms don't cut the mustard, not with me anyway.

"Barb receives this criticism at this volume and length because she is a woman."

Far as i needed to read. I don't need to look in a toilet to know it's completely full of shit.