This has been the trick for me.
Lost about 30lbs in the past two years.
Major life changes all at once don’t take with me. But incremental stuff - knocking out the booze, sticking to whole grains, portion control - really add up. I don’t feel like I’m punishing myself; it feels like I’m taking care of myself.
Committing…
Her son is the adorable - looks just like her
OOOOH LOOKIT THE FANCY FRANCE-LIVER.
#swoon
Man, that is awful - I’ve heard so many similar stories from women I know, too. The closest I’ve gotten as a man is getting yelled “f*g” at from people in cars. It’s awful that’s such a regular occurrence for women - to be at risk anywhere that men are. Our culture (rooted in toxic and fragile masculinity) truly is…
Big hugs to you as well - and I’m really sorry to hear your assaults have been multiple. It’s strange the amount of blame I put on myself for it for the longest time before realizing how messed up that was. I don’t know how to phrase this without it sounding awful, but it’s strange, too, how much more I was able to…
IT is not asking too much. Try writing a nice, respectful and serious email to the author. Don’t say bad stuff, just reading this I was struck that a follow on article...
I can empathize with Fraser a bit. I’m still trying to wrap my head around my own assault by another dude a year ago. I’ve been caught between “it could have been worse, suck it up” and “this is kind of super fucked up, right?”
I love everything about this comment. It mirrors what I was thinking as I was reading the piece.
Yes—you have articulated the thoughts I had when reading that article. It had a devastating impact on him, including a huge impact on his career and family. It obviously took a huge amount of courage for him to come forward and talk about it. This is something that many (most?) women encounter multiple times in their…
A number of years before #MeToo, Lisa Rinna talked about her experiences with what’s euphemistically referred to as “the casting couch”. Her husband, Harry Hamlin said that he too has been pressured by female casting directors to have sex with them in order to get roles.
I’m still expecting far more men to come forward as victims of sexual abuse and harassment in Hollywood. We’re all just told to “suck it up” and have to deal with masculinity bullshit if we do come forward with abuse, sexual or otherwise.
I wholeheartedly agree. Maybe I’ve lost some optimism over things like this, but I get little joy from seeing headlines that a politician was “vanquished” or “annihilated” or “eviscerated” or whatever other synonym one can dream up. We are applying a rational person’s reaction to extreme public shaming to individuals…
A million starts for you, sir! Other than foreign and racial issues, campaign finance corruption is the root cause of a majority of our country’s problems. Between super PACs and lobbyists, most of our industries are able to write their own rules and regulations through their corrupt political puppets. Not to mention,…
Yup, I’m sorry you had to grow up with that. Nothing grosser than some guy talking about the “pussy” he “used to pull”.
This is my friend’s dad. I grew up fairly sheltered with healthy boundaries between adults and their children and their children’s friends so it took me a solid 2 years to realize my law school roommate’s dad was attempting to get in my pants. The man literally went for the top of my thigh at a dinner at a fancy…
I’m so sorry your dad over shared like that. It would have been bad enough if you were a boy, but as a girl, hearing all that was really beyond all boundaries. It was so gross of him to do that. Sadly, parents like your dad are more common than some would think.
Sorry Urban. That sounds fucked up.
Not all parents are paragons of discretion, but the fact that your dad was so open also doesn’t mean you could say who he *hasn’t* slept with. As Rich said in the post, kids are in a better position to answer the affirmative than the negative, because they’ve really only heard the stories their parents were…
