It’s pretty unusual for violent behavior in children to not be a product of their environment. In typical children - without significant psychiatric conditions (which ADHD is not) - violent misbehavior is usually the result of unmet needs and having no viable means of communicating those needs. Obviously we can’t know…

I’m someone who generally thinks it’s not great to criticize people for having or not having children or for having “too many”. That’s complicated though when people circumvent the usual limitations that nature imposes - like in this case through IVF or via successive adoption. At a certain point you’re just acquiring…

Then it’s likely because she has majority/sole custody of the kids. If she’s the one feeding them daily, buying their clothes, paying their medical bills, school tuition etc he owes her something to help cover that.

Yeah the point of child support is to make sure the children have a similar lifestyle when they are with each parent. Obviously both parents in this case have more money than anyone would ever need but the courts don’t want kids favoring one parent over the other because at Dad’s mansion they have three pools and…

Objectification is not actually an inherent aspect of modeling. The career would look very different in a world not this overwhelmed with misogyny. 

The amount of misogyny in this comment is more than I feel like engaging with. 

It’s not harmful to acknowledge that individuals have little control of how their bodies look. Being thin or fat has much less to do with individual behavior than it does genetics and structural aspects of life (ie income, stress levels, etc).

Yeah no. A person can take issue with and voice concerns about aspects of their chosen career and still stay in that career. What you’re saying here amounts to “if you don’t love it leave”

Step 1 of Fat Acceptance is understanding the reality that individual behavior has little impact on body size. Both genetics and structural factors (ie are you rich?) have a greater impact. 

My boyfriend has a gym friend who months ago was complaining how difficult it is to online date as a “moderate” in Boston. He’s now mainline progressive and “can’t believe” the stupid stuff he used to believe. Pussy is powerfully persuasive.

I recently watched SATC from the beginning for the first time and it was really odd to watch the premise and ethos of the show shift so completely from what it was in the first season. It is not a show about four friends or about friendship. The first season is a show about SJP and an assortment of friends who come…

Maybe tone down the misogyny if you want anyone to consider your opinion at all. 

Lying about what? It is possible for someone to be the victim of domestic abuse and also commit it themselves. Saying “I experienced domestic violence” in an op-ed isn’t lying. 

Look into coverage of his first defamation case in the UK. The judge found that Heard’s allegations were substantiated. 

Which blacklisting are you talking about? Depp’s or Heard’s? 

Except there isn’t strong evidence she lied in her op-ed - the issue at hand. What we have here is just demonstration that a jury of lay people will reliably buy into misogynist narratives about conniving women and imperfect victims.

They didn’t do anything because they didn’t have AR-15s.

Actually that clause was written mainly with slave revolts in mind. Slave revolts were the most immediate threat to security in many states. But since slavery was illegal in half the country already, slave states didn’t trust a federal army to suppress them and instead relied on conscripted militias. It was seen as…

Kids are actually significantly more likely to be shot at home than at school or anywhere outside their house. Domestic violence accounts for the vast majority of gun deaths in young children. In older children the majority are suicides - mostly with family members’ guns they shouldn’t have access to. 

The US has had a strict machine gun ban in place since the 1930s - it was passed in response to the St Valentines Day Massacre, ie seven gang members being killed in a gun fight with tommy guns. It is beyond depressing that the murder of dozens of children has repeatedly received no similar response.