Amen. Vinson poised a negligible risk when she first left. The CDC gave her permission to move, and she trusted their authority and expertise on the subject. Perhaps she was wrong too do so, but shaming and blaming her for acting in accordance with the judgement of those with the authority and expertise on this…

I'm going to be blunt.

sunlight, women, cardio...

Well said.

Not to rag on this project, because I can see how this might be inspiring to people with disabilities who struggle with self-image, but: I still have to question the narrative of "beauty," be it inner beauty or outer beauty or some ambiguous combination of the two, being a stand-in for a person's worth as a human…

I'm asking politely and honestly: Aren't most of Mark Shrayber's articles just repurposed Daily Mail horror stories?

You thought "@amandabynes: My dad never did any of those things The microchip in my brain made me say those things but he's the one that ordered them to microchip me" was a coherent tweet?

Hey, guess what, fuck you!

Almost as if the whole thing has been crafted to get a rise out of people, isn't it?

Yup. I mean; there seemed to be some kind of meta-commentary about the article but a lot of readers here are going to miss it and go right for the jabs at her looks, which sucks.

Uhh, so we're literally just reposting Daily Fail misogynistic clickbait bullshit now? I know Jez is running on a skeleton crew lately and I don't expect academic dissertations on global economic issues anyway, but would a tiny bit of quality control kill us?

Oh, internet. We're not going to fall for this again, are we?

He only linking it so we can snark on her looks (look it has already happened).

It seems a little misogynistic to me. There seems to be a very subtle jab at this woman for having confidence.

What is the command, here? Should we throw our verbal stones at her since she has the nerve to think well of herself?

It's also not clear why this kind of news is news aside from the fact that publications like The Mail want us to gaze upon Allen's Grecian form and comment on how her looks are actually pretty average and that if she's having trouble meeting men, it might be that there's something else going on, like the fact that…

When my kiddos were little, I really thought that everybody was crazy, because OF COURSE I could still get to yoga class, read my books, and listen to my own music! Those other moms were just not very good at it, I guess (I THOUGHT). Then? Then those little boogers grew up and became sentient. Yeeeeesh. Now, at ages…

From the desk behind us, Tom Ley stares.

Candid photo of Tyranno-thesaurus.