Cries of pain are music for her banquet

A quote, or nearly so, from George Eliot, who shamefully had to pretend to be a man to get published.  What an embarassment that must be, for a woman.  Do you suppose she had to make spelling mistakes, miss deadlines and generally dumb down in correspondence with her publisher, just to appear authetically male?

Still, the quotation is rather a lovely image, isn't it?  Here are some more.

Her impotence treatment works every time - it's a remarkable medical breakthrough, actually.

She seems nice. What a shame you're nothing special.  Better luck in Somalia.

She's such a sweet person, wouldn't hurt a fly in real life.  Still: she'll flog him bloody and then piss on the wounds, because that's the kind of professional she is. Then go and have dinner with Dave and maybe a cuddle before bed.

Castration manga is actually a great way to interest girls in comic books, because it's using the medium to speak to issues that concern them as women, you know?  Also: it's just a lot of fun, obviously.

He was quite fat when they started training him.  Still some way off the target weight of zero that they are aiming for, but he'll get there.  In fact, he's going to lose a whole bunch of weight all in one go next Thursday: they just haven't told him yet.