No doubt she’s a manipulative, attention-seeking, chronic liar, but this whole narrative being constructed about white privilege and appropriation, while important, doesn’t even get close to the truth of what’s happening to her, and there’s a reasonable explanation for it besides her simply being awful and evil. I…

So? Maybe it just so happens there’s some things she intended to keep to herself. Others have indicated there was abuse in the family, and not just from the brother, but the hardcore Christian parents as well.

Truly and sincerely, fuck you! One of the most despicable comments I’ve seen on the subject so far. Being profoundly disturbed by repeated childhood abuse doesn’t make her beahvior any more reprehensible and (I’ll use the ultimate Jezebel buzz word) problematic, it utterly explains it. Three different people attest to…

He raped them, and the parents stick up for him to this day. That’s more than creepy.

So instead of being traumatized into pathology, she’s just a greedy, self-centered, attention-seeking asshole who happens to have fundamentalist parents and a pedophile sibling? What a coincidence.

I’m pretty sure her abusive family is mainly responsible for her being so fucked up, and the public in general is responsible for making a spectacle out of her.

Ugh, can’t believe this bullshit.

It doesn’t need to be excused, but it certainly explains it. Does she really need to be shamed for it as well, and on this scale? Disgusting.

Read more closely. Someone apparently not related to the oldest brother was raped by him, and indicated he had also done the same to his sisters. This is going to be like the Rolling Stone UVA story in reverse, but this time everyone is responsible.

Finally, a voice of sanity. The ridicule is so digusting at this point. Before it was just silly, but how can anyone still want to trash this troubled woman?

Well, she was thoroughly abused by members of her family as a child, and now she’s being publicly shamed for gaining attention she never asked for, for her blatant mental health problems caused by her experiences. Caitlin Jenner is an over-exposed reality television personality, leveraging their status to positively…

They are!

I’m pretty critical but I think you’re probably smarter than me. What did you want me to critique?

I love it.

No. White from California, though. In Idaho, where I live now, they would hate us both about the same.

I agree, and it’s fascinatingly ironic that one result of the emasculation of the institutions on which society depends is the belief in the utter authoritativeness of scientific findings — the total lack of skepticism on the part of the average person about a process that itself depends on skepticism in order to…

It’s just so shitty how effective the divide-and-conquer strategy has been at turning thoughtful caution into hippie bullshit. Reading supposedly scientifically-minded people talk about evidence and hypotheses in absolute terms just goes to show little they understand the endeavor, and that they’re really only…

Just observing, though. I know what’s good for me by now.

It’s really easy to say you’re not a hypocrite when the only time you’re faced with the dilemma, for which you claim to have found the most reasonable solution, is in a completely hypothetical situation of your own design. The fact is, you’re saying the only reasonable — saying it over and over about yourself doesn’t…

Cops know how to touch people in ways that will likely make someone reflexively pull away in order to justify force. If you’re alone with the police, you’re completely at their mercy.