I think one of Bourdain’s friends said - or maybe this is how my brain is making sense of it - that his relationship w/ Argento and her impact on him was an indicator that something was up with him, rather than her causing him to behave a certain way/do certain things. 

Strongly agreed, actually. Bourdain didn’t commit suicide “because” of a person he was dating, even if she was kind of a terrible person. She would have still been kind of a terrible person if he had chosen to live. The ways in which she was a bad person don’t change what Weinstein (and for that matter the Italian…

I don’t think that anyone is trying to defend Argento insofar as she raped a teenager. However, she was crucified in the Italian press for being a rape victim (with a sexual appetite of her own) long before the accusations against her became public. Also (and I say this as a Bourdain fan), many Bourdain fans treat her…

As I recall, Argento said the payoff was Bourdain’s idea, so either he knew about it, or she threw him under the bus posthumously.

People have been commenting, on this and other posts, that if Britney Spears does have a serious mental illness, then she does need the help. It’s important to remember that just because a person needs help, it doesn’t mean they should be declared permanently helpless. There’s a big difference between the two. I don’t…

It’s almost certainly not helpful in sprinting, at least in competition, but WADA don’t try to specify which drugs are banned for which sports, because that’d basically be giving drug cheats a shopping list and encouragement to innovate [“Hey, Drug X is super dangerous and massively performance-enhancing... but we…

It appears as though it is, though.

I am a civil rights attorney, and part of my paractice has been providing free representation for individuals with disabilities who want to remove or change their guardianships or conservatorships for the last 15 years. I and the public don’t have enough information to know if the conservatorship for Ms. Spears is…

It is very odd as Brits usually only steal African American music. 

It should have been phrased “inexplicably British Americana band.” Because it’s a *very* American style of folk they’re doing.

Oh no, where will we ever find another white dude who can play the banjo? /s

I sympathize with her, but I also feel like fans advocating on her behalf do not have a full and complete picture of her mental health. They’ve filled in the blanks with their own beliefs about her, which may not align with the reality that the judge is privy to.

I think it’s that they didn’t actually let Michael Sam play. They cut him before the season began, so he was the first openly gay man *drafted* into the NFL, but this guy is the first *active player* in the NFL.

I remember liking enough the ambitious scope of Can’t Hardly Wait, trying to juggle so many different character archetypes and giving them all arcs to some extent with an impressively recognizable cast. I kind of feel like it sort of had proto-Booksmart energy in terms of being unusually interested in showing some…

TSAM is in the upper echelon of the Farrelly ouvre, but that’s not a great reflection on TSAM. While it’s often credited as the precursor to the Judd Apatow R comedies-with-heart that I think saved comedy in the 00's, it feels more of a piece with the Stiller/Wilson/Vaughn cringe comedies that the Apatow comedies…

You know for once in these comment sections could we not have some white assholes talking over PoC when it comes to colorism among their community and shouting “Teh Left is Canibalizing Itself!!!!?!!!” when the topic of colorism is even brought up? It’s not a new discussion, it’s just a discussion that’s becoming more…

I mean, the example above doesn’t sound like she was being an asshole.

It doesn’t hurt to have the conversation. Boycotting or whatever else would be stupid but it’s important to have people think about their biases and do better next time.

White-passsing means just that. You pass for white in society as a whole. It’s not an insult. It’s a descriptive. There are Jews who pass for white such as those with European backgrounds and there are Jews who don’t, like black or Persian Jews. Some Jews are religious and some are Atheists who practice for cultural…