The gate keepers (the people with all the money) aren’t that gay.

In Kristen Stewart’s case she likely came out because she didn’t want those parts anyway and she was in real danger of being type cast into them after Twilight. Most actors don’t start their career starring in three enormous movies and do have to accept stupid roles for a while before they can be selective.  

Eating disorders have BMI within their diagnostic guidelines. You must be underweight to be diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. The problem there is that it takes years of disordered eating before most people who do become underweight actually do and most people never actually become underweight. The alternate diagnosis,…

I think everyone defending its uses is severely discounting the amount of harm it does compared to those uses. 

Patients with higher BMIs are often praised by their doctors for behaviors that in thinner patients would prompt a disorder diagnosis. The separation of anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa in diagnostic literature makes no sense given both are behavioral disorders and actively prevents patients from getting…

That would require Republican congressman and staffers to care at all about sexual harassment rules.  

I’m not sure there’s any legal exposure from someone showing you their phone screen. Emailing or texting the photos would be different.

I believe the coercion charge has to do with the fact that he wasn’t technically paying for sex but providing hotel rooms, dinners, “gifts” etc and the person being paid was a minor. It makes sense that that could be considered coercion.

Yeah, his use of the phrase “17-year-old woman” is real fucking telling. 

His Tucker Carlson interview is kind of hilarious because of how not sympathetic Carlson is. At one point he implicates Carlson by asking if he remembers having dinner with him and a date (who was probably one of the, maybe underage, call girls) and Carlson just looks shocked and goes full damage control “I have no…

The cast of that movie also includes Tomi Lahren, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Mike Lindel (the My Pillow Guy). 

This doesn’t seem like it belongs in the hall-of-idiotic-gender-reveal-accidents given that these were apparently professional pilots who could have just as easily been hauling a Geico banner. 

I’m hopeful about conviction based on the particulars of the case. There weren’t any split second decisions here for a jury to sympathize with. He had a long time to change course and was repeatedly told by those around him that he was endangering Floyd’s life.

I understand the pessimism but at the same time this case seems distinct from past ones. There’s this terrible legal standard called the “reasonable officer” - jurors are supposed to judge whether a “reasonable officer” would have taken the actions in question. The fact that a dozen people are saying they were…

I’m also super anti-wedding but my brother told me he and his wife got back everything they spent on their wedding in cash gifts. I think theirs was in the ~$10k-20k range, so believable if the 200 guests each gave $100.

Imagine if they entertained the thought that another reporter might be biased because they’ve committed sexual assault.

They’ve actually added a lot of small rotaries at intersections like this in the Boston suburbs recently. I’ve honestly never encountered anyone in eastern Mass who had an issue with them. 

Actually rotaries (aka roundabouts) are really common in Massachusetts, even at small intersections like this. 

In those Massholes’ defense, there’s no reason for there to be a stop sign at that intersection, there’s no cross traffic. At a T intersection, only the abutting road needs a stop sign.

Nothing in particular against Harry or this job, but the nonprofit/charitable world is full of made up positions that pay six figures. It’s not just in Silicon Valley or large companies.