I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

Well, I always did want to go out in a Braveheart kind of way. I'll just have to think of something cool to yell before they cut my head off.

One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.