I love her, but sometimes I wonder how much of her real girl charm is a sham. Her genuine response to this - and her inability to let it go, continuing to tell the reporter she's a terrible person - makes me feel like her personality is completely legit. That wasn't the response of someone putting on a show, that…

Wow that's super ableist of you, you wouldn't say that we shouldn't idolize someone who died of cancer, and instead should idolize those who managed to survive it? Because that would be a ridiculous thing to say. Depression is an illness, and sometimes people die from it, it is not a personal failure.

Yep! My friend had them all (no way I would spend money on that) so I just borrowed and kept reading. It was....so bad. I would often yell at the books, and then my husband would yell at me.

If that cultural backgroud actually affects your life, then go ahead and identify it. But in the US the majority of people's culture is just US American. In that case, using your 1/5124325 native american blood, or the fact that your great great great great great grandfather came from Ireland, in order to defend…

And it's also tricky because you had mixed families who purposely obscured their native-ness in order to pass for white in communities that were hostile to American Indians. Many now have descendants who want to reconnect with traditions they feel were stolen from them, but are hesitant to approach people who could…

Yep. And it's so amusing when people who have Irish great-grandparents say, "There was discrimination against the Irish, too, you know!" as a way to say, "My blackface/Native American costume couldn't possibly be racist!"

I just write people off who say that kind of insensitive nonsense. I assume (though I probably shouldn't 'cause who knows?!) that they haven't lived a day with depression, anxiety or any other eternal, life-altering, soul-sucking mental illness. I have incredible sympathy for not only the people who are affected by…

Holy shit. What is it about the Irish thing? It's like some sort of white person rule - put more than 5 of us in a room and we have to start talking about all the different kinds of white we are, and the specific genetic makeup.

What the hell does "get help" even mean? Just because someone with a mental illness ASKS for help doesn't mean they GET effective treatment, or even that such treatment exists. Look at the thousands of patients with borderline personality disorder, who had almost no hope until Marsha Linehan began treating them like…

I work closely with this kind of thing, and white people claiming agency in Native issues b/c they have a Native (usually Cherokee) ancestor (usually a grandmother whose name they don't even know, or even which ancestor she supposedly birthed) is so common that Native people almost expect it. And they make fun of…

I would really like to see a new rule instituted for people claiming NA ancestry to cover their asses. Something along the lines of "tribe membership or STFU".

Your racist tears are hilarious!

No, she's a cautionary tale. Not much better. I'm not trying to jump down your throat here, but I think you are not thinking through this very well. You can idolize Plath without killing yourself, because how she died isn't everything about her. Like all complicated people, there is good and bad. And the idea that…

Wow, so killing yourself if you are seriously and deeply depressed means you are somehow less valuable than people who have found help and been able to stay alive? I think that comments like this really make people who have attempted suicide and who live daily with this issue feel like shit. I know that's not your…

Some of my most favorite writers have committed suicide. Sylvia Plath, Sarah Kane, Iris Chang, Tennessee Williams (possibly, I believe he choked to death on the cap of a pill bottle) It is not "soooooo jacked up" to idolize someone for their creativity and passion. Chastising someone for their mental illness…

please, PLEASE can't we stop with the "love and light"?! What does it even mean? It makes me a lil rage-y whenever I hear it

Oprah promoted The Secret, many dubious if not outright quacks and too many other things to count. OF COURSE Jenny McCarthy isn't on her shit list.

Why isn't Ronan Farrow straight? And also my boyfriend?

Cherokee Indian? * suspicious side-eye *