sorry, this wasn’t meant as a criticism of you and your reasoning seems totally valid, I’m just frustrated because all the stories about the stanford rapist I’ve read today have have referred to what happened as him ‘having sex with an unconscious woman’ and it’s pissing me off

It’s a piss-poor business model!

Yup. A friend of mine met him because her mother was the president of his oldest fan club, back in the day. He flew their whole family out to one of the Pirates sets and gave them all generous gifts, and was very kind. Another friend of mine is related to the side of Depp’s family that he apparently never talks to,…

I was just talking to my mom about this today. My father was never physically abusive towards me, but I do remember times where he was physically abusive towards my brother. He was emotionally abusive to both my brother and me, and I later learned how horrible he was to my mother when they were married. Luckily she…

It infuriates me that this is the case, just like there are people who will claim all of Bill Cosby’s victims are money-hungry white women who were paid off. Especially with the internet, even though it’s gotten easier to verify and fact-check, we have paradoxically became even lazier and more prone to running with…

You also can’t claim “Very few people who are old enough to remember the case in the early 90s believe Dylan” because there’s no accurate way to measure that. What can be said, however, is that, most often, when people have expressed doubt about Dylan’s story, it has been based on misinformation like you have here…

At least, that’s what they’ll claim is their motivation.

This will ensure any woman who considers reporting a sexual assault remains in her terrified silence for all eternity.

I don’t know if it is my love for Stewart clouding my judgement, but it seriously just sounds like he admitted to never hearing those rumors before, which is believable because the only reason I know of those rumors is because of this site.

My mother has worked in the film industry a long time. And, I sent her a link to the Kristen Stewart piece from Jez last night. And, this was her response:

I think - and I could be mistaken - that the author is saying that having people talk shit because you slept with a married dude is not on the same plane as the decades of allegations brought against Allen if we’re comparing how rumors can mess up your life, not to mention how we would view those individual “sins.”

Maybe being born of and then raised by Kris Kardashian really shifts a person’s perspective about dictators in general.

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...No. If Philip Roth was allowed to write the same fucking story over and over, about boring, ruthless men on navel-gazing quests for sexual fulfillment — and win prizes for it — and be called one of the greatest writers of his generation — I think we as a culture can afford Beyoncé space to take what is personal to h…

So because she has an album showing the journey of going through some very human and natural reactions to trust being broken in a marriage, it is drama? You think referring to a woman using her music as catharthis, and being honest about how she felt as “drama” isn’t ingrained misogyny? She put him on blast with many…

Funny how the people who claim to hate drama are so often the ones starting it.

Yes, however... people tend to confuse that with accepting opinions or worldview different from your own. Hearing and listening and learning is important. But not every opinion or worldview should be accepted.

Honestly, I think that if they wanted to go with Scarlett Johansson, they might as well set the movie in the United States instead of Japan. It would make a lot more sense IMO.

I used time-outs, but not really as punishment. They were used when one of my kids needed to calm themselves down, because they were becoming more and more overwrought, usually because they were caught in some sort of emotional feedback loop (Something happened, I’m upset, that makes me upset, now I’m MORE upset,…