So again, this comment shows little understanding of the context surrounding this case, McNamara, and the book. Maybe if you know very little about the genre or Michelle in general, you shouldn’t make these assumptions.

First off, I wouldn’t say that Cosby was easy to convict. He had enormous wealth and a lot of influence in the entertainment world. His reputation was unassailable until a few years ago, despite the fact that these crimes have been ongoing for decades. And for all those years, he got away with it. So “finally” is…

Probably you’re just trolling, but Michelle is important enough to confront this assumption. Surely Patton is the more famous of the two, but Michelle was already very well known for her true crime writing. Her blog, True Crime Diary had a large cult following and writing was featured in the New Yorker. I’m sure her…

Ugh, the look they gave each other when he says “You are not married.” I instantly started to cry...

Oh I don’t know - maybe because not a single man on this earth would exist if someone hand’t gotten pregnant and given birth to them?

Threatening to withhold your support of a marginalized group because they’re not praising you enough is really gross.

The woman who took the video explains that several people in the same Starbucks had been there for hours without ordering anything. If a policy is in place, but it’s only being selectively applied, it’s still discriminatory.

I think you’ve been misinformed. Teachers use those (generally) 3 months out of the year to make lesson plans and pursue professional development. Like many professions, going to conferences and classes is essential to keep current on emerging developments in the field. For example, let’s say a school is getting a new…

I didn’t have a choice about under the table work. I was trying to pay back student loan debt and doing whatever it took to do that. I told my employers I’d rather be on the books so that I could get more tax money back for being in graduate school, and they promised I’d be able to do that “at some point” so I took…

We need more protection for those in childcare jobs, too. I’ve worked as a nanny off and on for years and my experience has varied wildly. In one job, I worked for a very nice working class family caring for their two young children. The parents are both in law enforcement jobs, so their hours were long. If they both…

Who’s censoring? They’re free to say whatever they want - they’re just not free from criticism.

Well of course! That kind of dissonance is easy if you start with the assumption that you’re the good guy and always just work back from there.

I don’t mean to be rude, and if this comes off that way, please feel free to call me out. What much of our narratives about genocide and concentration camps tend to leave out (this includes atrocities against indigenous people, Jewish people, enslaved people and many others) is that all of these atrocities were met…

Good god, are men literally allergic to responsibility? Plenty of women have disappointing relationships with their parents and with men. At 16, my mother told me she worried I’d end up alone for the rest of my life. At around 10, my father told me he wished I was a boy and was disappointed when he found out I’d be a…

Ahhhh I love your little seedlings! I’m in a basement apartment so I can’t have a garden. This is the second year in a row now, and it’s a little depressing. I basically grew up a farm girl so it’s been strange getting used to grocery store visits instead of just wandering through the backyard to pick produce. But…

Several of the people he shot were Jewish. When you want to play devil’s advocate, do your research.

Which only serves, of course, to make the food less healthy to eat. I’m a broke grad student - I subsist on a lot of dried and canned stuff - and I have to be really careful about my sodium as a result. Part of the way these things are preserved is with salt and when one can of beans has like 1/3 of your daily salt,…

And I can’t help you if you’re pulling statistics out of nowhere and making these wildly illogical leaps.

You’re just moving goalposts now. Before it was a country needing help that disqualified it, now it’s a certain amount of help.

We’ve needed no help? In what regard? If we’re only referring to defense, troops from other countries have participated in nearly all the wars we’re currently fighting. Is that not helping? Can you say without a shadow of a doubt that their soldiers didn’t make a difference in battle?