I have a toddler and I'm against taking him to anything above family restaurants. However, I bet you what happened at Alinea is an extremely, extremely rare occurrence. I think that, once someone breaches etiquette and brings a baby in such an environment, the only solution for everybody is to put up with it. Because…

and you can see there's a knife in his pocket, like something out of a movie.

I'm sorry Madelaine, but I think you completely misread this and underestimated Katie Couric's journalistic skill in the process. In fact, Couric achieved her goal brilliantly - her goal being to normalize Trans people for mainstream America. You could tell the whole conversation was rehearsed because they had the…

I didn't watch it but I don't get all the hate for her either. I've always really empathized with her. She was terribly taken advantage of IMO, being sexualized and given way too much fame at a very young age and then had no one to protect her when she became mentally ill until her parents stepped in. (Which they…

I think if you look at our history - making abusive behaviors illegal HAVE allowed abused people to get out of abusive relationships. Previously, marital rape was not illegal. Previously, a beaten spouse who went to the hospital had no recourse (legal, social, otherwise) to get out of the relationship. Now, because…

You can't legislate courtesy, decency, kindness or civility. If your partner doesn't treat you with these things, the remedy is divorce, not criminal charges.
Emotional abuse isn't about decency or kindness. Examples: keeping a spouse's clothes or food limited or locked up. Taking one's paycheck and allowing them an…

Kevin Smith is a class act. I'd put the Citizen Kane gif here, but I think that's been retired for 2014.

Good for you, Kevin Smith!

Does your husband still go camping/fishing with them?

Three people from the same cult in Hollywood? The odds? Oh, I'd say pretty good actually.

I almost feel bad about my fascination with cults. Most of the time awful of things take place inside of them but I'm still morbidly curious.

This may explain why men want to POKE THEIR BONERS IN MY BACK WHILE I AM GETTING MY PRECIOUS MORNING SLEEP.

I don't know what it is, but I just really, really don't like Jenny Slate. Her scenes in Parks and Rec (that show is basically my religion) are completely unwatchable. Same with Raising Hope. I get that you're supposed to hate those characters, but I didn't like her in Drunk History, either. And she was just being her…

Being Black and from Ohio, I can co-sign this statement. I'd like to add this, too: large portions of the Buckeye State are Appalachian in nature, and the only things that separate those places from West Virginia and Kentucky are arbitrary borders. The deep seated, although not always malicious in intent, racism is…

Return disbatch: Intentions do not equal accomplishments.

I think this might be the thing that finally broke me of my need to read Jezebel. Repeatedly pointing out that she's a "former" Southerner doesn't make any of this okay. It's just a shit ton of stereotyping and condescension and willfully ignoring all of the homophobia and racism (and even rednecks!) that exists in…

Indeed, Larry is a Nebraskan who got rich and famous from parodying his Southern college roommates.

This is essentially Tracy Moore's MO when it comes to the South. "Oh, someone from the South did something? Your worst fears about everyone from that region are absolutely correct, and I should know, because I'm from there." I wish I could stop rising to her clickbait; I loathe her work about as much as Chuck…

Thank you. I am not even from an incredibly rural area and this made me SUPER angry. Some people like living in the country, some people like living in the city. This article privileges one over the other very clearly. Also, not all "rednecks" are religious, not and all of them are homophobic. The prejudice…

People always double-take when I tell them I'm from the south, because I don't have an accent. Then they ask why I ditched it. I tell them that it's a secret and that I'll share eventually.