Have any of the mental health issues she’s displayed (publicly at least) been any worse than those of male celebrities? Justin Beiber? Kanye West? No, and no one EVER brought up the idea of a conservatorship for those guys. 

Off the top of my head I can think of at least one person who was definitively less comfortable than her at the scene...

Yeah, I had the same reaction. I wouldn’t have trusted James from day one because it sounds like his initial flattery of her was really over the top, and (almost) nobody does that unless they want something. Of course she’s allowed to decide to give him what he wants, but she shouldn’t turn around and be surprised…

Mostly yes, but you can transmit some diseases through breast milk.

If you can’t parse what she’s saying but the rest of us can, doesn’t that make you the idiot?

I also do this in reverse. Every time a story about sexual assault, Feminism, equal rights, black rights matter, homophobia, racist bullshit, etc etc etc comes across my timeline, etc, I click on it even if I’ve read it. I must have clicked on Ronan Farrow’s article a thousand times. The more we click on these things,…

I’ve been in a similar situation to your brother, and uh, that “the courts were biased to mothers, I really tried” line is usually bullshit.

This. I’m old enough to remember that until 1969, the men arrested in police nuisance raids of gay bars would have their names published in the daily newspaper, often resulting in losing jobs. Rogers wasn’t rejecting him - he was looking out for him (and the show). Also worth noting that the marriage-for-appearances…

I have seen a couple of sites trying to make a fuss out of this and say that homophobia was some sort of skeleton in Fred Rogers’ closet. But that is really judging people of half a century ago by the morality of today. It is amazing that Clemmons wasn’t fired. Gay people (especially men) around children was regarded…

But still, it illustrates the finite nature of Mr. Rogers’s ideals. “I like you just the way you are,” he often said, but in the case of Clemmons there was a caveat: “...I just need you to show less of the way you are.” This information through the lens of contemporary culture, in which an employer legislating what…

“He should be outside playing,” one troll wrote, “not parroting your politics.”

Any time someone uses evolutionary psychology as the crux of their argument you know they are full of bullshit. This guy is an imbecile.

It’s just enough to drive a modern person mad to listen to these incels from the internet area ensconced in their comfortable secure lives complaining about the fact that they’re discriminated against because they don’t have enough sex. It’s like, Jesus get a hobby. For Christ’s sake, you — you — ”

Yeah, you really don’t generally want to argue in support of a provably demonstrated troll. Especially if that troll’s so-called “point” can be effectively argued against.

There’s something weird about the way we talk about these situations, like we have a limited amount of “victim” slots and we need to portion out our sympathy accordingly, lest we run out. Like, I feel for everyone Weinstein hurt, but damn, I feel for Chapman too. Like just as a mother, I can’t imagine how hard it’s…

If she touched an open blister and then touched something else that you touched, you absolutely could get it. If you were pregnant, traveling with kids, or had cancer, would you REALLY trust anybody to thoroughly wash their hands & keep their germs to themself? It’d be one thing if the rash was bandaged up and under…

How about it gets classified as child abuse , because that’s what it is?

“Hi, are you a woman? You are? Cool, see you at the race.”

If this happens, I will goddamn dedicate myself to financially and socially punishing anyone who has anything to do with it.

Dollars to donuts, this didn’t end in police action because one of the three women involved is an attorney and head of her local NAACP chapter.