Getting victims to act as perpetrators is a great cult brainwashing tool because it inculcates complicity and makes them afraid to leave. In this case, some of the savvier members seem to have made plea deals to avoid prison time in exchange for informing on cult activities. I also suspect Allison Mack is a patsy who…

Nah, they were extremely complicit in the horrors of slavery and racial oppression. And while they didn’t have agency over White men, they had plenty of agency over Black domestic laborers who they routinely abused, and they were also instrumental in maintaining school segregation so their kids didn’t have to go to…

I did! But it was way after the deadline closed so I figured I’d repost.

Oh my god, what a scary person. There’s nothing creepier than the thought of innocent people being randomly targeted for no reason other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I need to stop reading about stuff like that before I go to bed.

Thanks for the context, and I do see that critique in your comment. I think I just found it jarring, after watching his disturbing behavior escalate over several seasons, to scroll down and see that most of the comments were focused on her perceived failure to stand up for herself rather than his total disregard for…

Oh my god, that’s so sad. Yeah I had to leave the place entirely to get away from it, and it still followed me to another state. I think it lost power outside the house though, because the attachment faded over time. Your parents don’t stand a chance of escaping their depression if they stay there, it will just…

I’ve got one I call “Old Gray Thing” that I always forget to post. It was a paranormal encounter but I’m still not sure what exactly it was, and I’ve always been curious if anyone else has seen one too. I’m doxxing myself if anyone I know reads this, but here goes nothing...

Self-sufficient and self-aware women with good boundaries capable of saying no for themselves get abused and stalked too. The problem is the abuser’s behavior, not the victim’s.

I’m really disappointed that this comment is the top voted, and that we’re focusing on the victim’s behavior rather than the (over-the-top psychotic) behavior of her abuser. One thing we know about domestic abuse victims is that they have nothing in common in terms of personality and behavior. Some are emotionally…

Also a parent, but really not cool with all the boomer ageism in this thread. Young adults are still adults, and we can critique their ideas without infantilizing them as “petulant children who need discipline.”

I didn’t read it as them having issues with the journalistic standard of objectivity itself, but that they don’t trust the established “gatekeepers of journalism” (and they clearly saw this advisor as one) to impose that standard in a fair or equitable way. Which is a pretty legit argument that has been made elsewhere…

The person in question is named Kenna Griffin, not Kenn. It’s literally linked in the student letter. The copy editing on this site is atrocious.

Your cat doesn’t pose an existential threat to my reproductive rights, and I didn’t say shit about debating anyone.

Oh we are in agreement. I’m just saying corporate feminism has created an individualistic language of “empowerment” (lean in, girlboss, “women can have it all” etc.) that is easily twisted to support reactionary causes. In fact, “having it all” under capitalism nearly always requires the subjugation of other women. And…

The op-ed is behind a paywall. And all jokes aside, I’ve noticed “conservative feminism” gaining steam lately on the right. Ivanka Trump is the most visible face, but a bunch of other women (mostly thin, white, blonde Christian women in sheath dresses and pearls) are held up as right-wing feminist icons because…

Yeah as someone who is a little older and more established in my field, I’m more than happy to let recent grads who want to prove themselves by doing all the work, do all the work. That was my first thought. If LW’s colleagues are such highly educated multilingual polymaths, I doubt they even feel the need to compete…

A lot of this “outrage” seems like sour grapes. Is Ellen’s show really run that differently than any other cuthroat business where employees aren’t treated great? And we’re mad because she was supposed to be NICE? Really. I can’t imagine a group of people more cynical than your average Jezebel reader, and yet our…

“I’m a work in progress” is nearly always used to shrug off responsibility for wrongdoing. If you were really a work in progress, you’d be committed to, y’know, making PROGRESS. And that would entail taking full accountability for mistakes you made and outlining concrete steps to improve in the future. But they never…

I think the new writers (and Joan is the worst offender, but it’s a site-wide issue) forget some of us are older and have been reading this site since there was some well-researched longform political journalism amidst the snarky hot takes. Now it’s a sea of tiresome, shallow “SmAsH CaPiTaLiSm” and “EaT tHe RiCh”…

Thank you. These folks all visually present as cis white women, and thus do not face the same institutional violence and discrimination as people who visibly read as PoC and nonbinary. They just don’t. And if they were really white-passing, cis-passing nonbinary Black activists, they’d understand their privilege…