Yeah this article doesn’t provide much context. I was actually sympathetic to Sonya at first (emailing someone to ask why they didn’t “like” your kidney post is extremely fucking insane and I would say anything - including “I value our relationship” when it clearly isn’t true - to get out of an exchange with such a…

I read the “I value the relationship” exchange in the context of them fighting back and forth for weeks over email and Sonya trying to end the conversation. There was no indication in the article of either of them being friends or valuing anything about each other at any point.

I think what made this story insanely popular (besides pandemic boredom) is that everyone involved comes across as an asshole, but a relatable asshole. We’ve all known a Sonya or a Dawn, some of us have been a Sonya or a Dawn, and not a damn one of us would want our bitchy group texts printed in the New York Times.

There are plenty of people who identify as biracial, mixed, mestizo, Creole etc. in the States. But descendants of American slavery have a common culture and history that people across West Africa do not. As racial minorities in the U.S., there are advantages to organizing under the “Black” umbrella for political and…

Thank yooou. I’m biracial myself, and the light-skinned tears, deflections and whataboutism all over the comment section is making me cringe for my people. Colorism and pervasive erasure of dark-skinned women is a real phenomenon that anyone can turn on their TV and see. It’s not our fault, we didn’t create the…

As a fellow multiracial person, I’m pretty uncomfortable that you feel a need to “rep” us here and center our feelings in a conversation that is specifically about the exclusion of dark-skinned Black women from media representation. I agree that it’s not the responsibility of individual actresses to turn down roles,…

No preference, but I find them entertaining in different ways. The spooky ghost stories are more fun and festive and put me in the seasonal spirit, so I enjoy them. The living people stories stick with me longer and give me a deeper sense of dread. I don’t enjoy them as much, but they’re effectively scary. Stories…

Can I also plead that we don’t need to know the layout of your entire house to hear about something scary that happened inside? The long, overly detailed and confusing architectural descriptions are nearly a convention at this point.

I mean you’re constantly on tour together and they’re probably a safer bet than groupies. Who else are you going to sleep with?

It’s almost like people develop coping strategies for dealing with abusive work environments. Anyway, do you have any thoughts on the drunk man who sexually assaulted her on the clock?

They weren’t replying to the OP.

I think a lot of people followed a social script for success (get married, have kids, buy a house, get a good job etc.) and now that script is out the window and they have to decide who they actually are unmoored from the traditional signposts of a person who “made it.”

I agree that he’s smart to only discuss the details with his lawyer, and I also 100% believe he killed her (or at least knows where she is.) Even taking self-incrimination into account, if there was *any* chance they parted ways under non-suspicious circumstances and she then went missing, a loving fiance would be…

I don’t get what point you’re going so hard to prove here. No one here claimed he’s an “unfuckable pariah”, we’re just enjoying response videos clowning on this idiot. I think we’re all well aware his brand of idiocy is depressingly common (the article clearly states “men like this are a dime a dozen”), and that…

THIS. I guess they’re kinda cute in a clunky 70s way, but I can’t imagine wearing an “everyday shoe” that fucks up my feet and is basically impossible to walk around the city in without twisting an ankle.

Anyone who ever stanned the Cuomos, especially those who called themselves “Cuomosexuals” (puke) should do some deep soul searching about their shitty, horrible taste. They’ve both always been notably awful.

Agreed. Halsey also said they were “fine with either pronoun”, which to me doesn’t make it clear that they prefer 50/50 or any particular ratio at all. Journalists tend to prize linguistic clarity, so I’m not surprised they’d pick one of Halsey’s preferred pronouns to avoid confusion if they didn’t receive clear…

Let’s get real: his proclivities have been well known in political circles for years. This took WAY too damn long for obvious reasons. Nobody needed to die in the first place, but lots of prominent Democrats valued this psycho’s money over these men’s lives. Anyone who continued to take donations from him, especially…

Yeah this was a weird reach. Why not assume his comments were sexist, or ageist, or any other -ist? It sounds like a pretty straightforward case of him belittling her acting abilities and her defending herself. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Agreed that it’s nice, but I’m not sure why not doing so is considered “deliberate disrespect” on par with outright misgendering someone, especially when they said they were “fine with either pronouns.”