Jesus, that quote from the parents is telling. Carine and Chris obviously experienced a ton of reprehensible shit growing up.
Honestly, I can’t even imagine. I only realized that my experiences were abusive ones after I’d made it to university; I knew what I was going through wasn’t normal, and my relationship with my family was definitely a factor in my decision to get my degree on another continent, but I luckily and unknowingly set myself…
This sort of decision is rarely taken lightly either, when you’re a child with abusive parents. Mainly because you know that you can either leave, which fixes one problem but sets you up for a difficult time of it regarding your financial/educational future, or stay and endure it while being as high an academic…
Oh, of course setting boundaries doesn’t make sense to children (am including teens here). A) because they’re children and they lack the brain development and life experience to know to do this, B) because children should not have to be the ones setting boundaries with their children, and C) due to the innate power…
There’s not a lot explicitly stated in the report, but there’s a lot that can be recognized (especially when all appearing together) as signs of an abusive household.
Yeah, given that he ended up going back to his non-custodial mother rather than his father, and the authorities who found him seemingly were aware that he would likely not meet with his parents if given the choice, this all reads as a child who ran away from an abusive household. Not to mention, that an aunt said his…
I find the whole world fascinating, and follow a number of professional ballerinas in European companies about my age (early twenties) on social media. It’s a whole different atmosphere, especially regarding dance-specific culture, so getting any insight from someone with experience is something I love.
If you are a dancer (especially a ballet dancer), you spend your entire life being treated as a dispensable placeholder for a better dancer, while arrogant, marginally talented boys/men are groomed for principal roles and advance to principal soloist in 5-10 years rather than 15-20 years. If they’re straight, they’ll…
My first ever undergraduate lecture, our Resident Hot and Cool Prof (a dead ringer for Gerard Butler, complete with accent) showed up in kilt+trench coat. His lecture was on Romantic poetry.
haha, it’s okay, I’m pretty sure it’s somewhat niche knowledge. I didn’t know this until a few years ago, where it was presented in a ‘crazy facts people don’t usually know unless it falls under their specific research area in academia’ type of way. But it certainly is memorable.
This comment is funnier than it has the right to be.
My favorite Byron story is when Shelley found him in a gutter, dehydrated, malnourished and near dead from, essentially, having too much sex. Mainly because Shelley then wrote Keats about it, and the correspondence essentially went: “I found him in a gutter, he almost died.” “You should probably have let him.”
Mary Shelley lost her virginity on her mother’s grave. And also learned to read by tracing the letters of her mother’s gravestone.
Honestly I think the only shot is if we ‘age’ out of it. Gen Z seems to be on the same page about many things, and if they can unite as strongly as we’ve seen on one single issue (read: not wanting to be killed while going to school), I think there’s a shot that they’d be willing to meet halfway on others as their own…
Okay, I must be getting towards the end of my rope, because I thought I was good at keeping up with the frequent and chaotic staffing changes of this administration until now. Who the fuck is “Larry K”?
It’s on BBC America. The first episode is available for free online though.
FOSTA and SESTA are legislation- they are not the law, they haven’t even gone to conference committee. FOSTA and SESTA are completely irrelevant to what is happening to Backpage.
COLLIER! I just wanted to pop in and say that I finally tried the Too Cool For School Dinoplatz mascara that you’ve been raving about for years and I AM FULLY ON BOARD THIS TRAIN WITH YOU NOW.
....to be fair, they launched the shirts first. In theory, if you’re going to start your company by launching one type of product that shit had better be good, as it’s an indicator of what quality any future products your business expands to will be. Not to mention, the onus is on the company not to fuck up to lose…