MARRIAGE ADVICE FOR AMANDA MARCOTTE: “You’re entitled to your freedom, but freedom can only be exercised in the real world with all its limitations — including nature and, in a free society, the freedom of other people.”

Plus, from the comments: “This just in from the Gods of the Copy-book Headings: ‘She who will not when she may/ When she will, she shall have nay.'” They keep coming up these days.

UPDATE: Age and power differentials. I think Marcotte comes across as kind of “creepy” here. “Marcotte, in her capacity as a regular columnist at a prestigious, internationally read Web magazine, presently possesses a lot more cultural power and privilege than the high school boy she just called ‘creepy, accused of implicitly threatening Upton with being called a bitch, and told that his prom invitation is rooted in the same premise that stalkers and rapists operate under.” Like I said, Marcotte comes across as creepy.