Yes. And if you are non-compliant, don't sign up for classes, give them attitude, they have a process in place to start harassing you. Goes up from a very mild level to a huge escalation (in the case of a Remini or Holmes).

They do plant GPS devices, have in house stalkers/"investigators" and so on —- if you're non-compliant and you leave, expect their creepiness to follow you for as long as you are of interest to them.

Technically, most religions are cults. Yet they don't pay taxes, either. Anything that has an exclusionist "Only we are saved/you are crap" is, folks, a cult. This counts every religion you were probably raised in, Jezzies.

The wives of the GMD (Gay midget dwarf, Lainey of Lainey Gossip's affectionate term for Tom Cruise) always have to sign so many contracts (billion year ones, no less) to never speak a critical word about Scientology in public that you're never going to hear anything from Katie or Nicole.

Agreed, but the exorbitant cost of child rearing as an issue still goes beyond the unfortunate and real incompatibility between the corporate lifestyle and the mommy lifestyle. And that is a far more glaring problem, and we are STILL not addressing this as a culture. Why? Why doesn't it come up FIRST in discussions…

Fellow Jezzies, could be please get some coverage and outrage about THIS:

Childfree is a very important term for people who not only embrace not having kids but are trying to send a message to other women (and men, too) that being childfree is a perfectly okay and legitimate thing. We use it to distinguish from the "childless," which implies lack or loss. People who choose to be childfree…

It's a self-definition. Haven't met a mother yet who didn't count the fact that she fucked without birth control and shat out a rugrat as the be all and end all of her life. Even incredibly accomplished PhD rocket scientist type women. Why the endless mooing and lowing about the fact that your loins bore a little DNA…

I don't believe in babies. :)

We call them "deer snorts."

So when do they arrest the two other men?

But quite often they're not anonymous trolls, that's the problem. And we don't publicly shame open, gaping sore assholes like that nearly enough as a "tribe." And waiting for social media giants to protect us with an abuse button is not going to solve things.

I was called a drama queen by an online detractor recently for freaking out in my blog because — all within the span of a couple of weeks — it looked like I was going blind, two family members ended up in ER, and one of those family members moved into suddenly needing full-time caregiving (and it's just me living 400…

I think it's porn. Young men who have been seeing extremely explicit objectification of women since they were in diapers and have been accessing it 24/7 before they develop social skills in the real world, or authentic friendships with women, for that matter, reach 18 and have that constant fucking porn glare in their…

Excellent points. Show that we should be evaluating WHO IS DOING THE EVALUATING to get a better sense of who is producing true comedy or not.

I've published humor material (online, in mags, in newspapers) under my real (female) name and a male pen name.

Does not, however, make for the worst part; the putrid and viscous bottom.

I was born with the most gorgeous auburn hair, which my damned gorgeous aunt STILL has. I, however, lost all this lovely hair a few months after birth and went through a bald period. My mum grew tried of everybody telling her she had a cute little boy baby and sometimes taped a little pink bow to my head. My hair grew…

We have about a million cats. Or really, ten. Plus some neighborhood visitors. All of them are cuddly wuddly man maulers intent upon receiving rubs, giving purrs and cuddles, and projecting love bombs at you all the time.

This is a serious question.