It's not just for Catholics anymore ;)

Honestly, cleanses like that are TERRIBLE FOR YOU, so you should just stop right now. Eat lots of veggies and lean protein if you want to do something food for your body.

I always wonder why people are so weird.

She didn't whitewash anything with regard to "Strange Fruit." She had used the word "lynching" to describe the song many, many times before appearing on Tavis Smiley, and she clearly knows what the song is about and its history. On Smiley, she was trying to describe why it's still relevant today, despite the fact that…

Wait, you've scheduled your cleanse to include Valentine's Day? Don't do that to yourself! Can you move it back? Lent starts 3/18.

At first I was like... but then I was all...

I watched the whole interview she did with Tavis Smiley, and I watched other interview clips where she talks about it, and she was *quite* clear about the context of the song. See here for an example (topic comes in at about 1:40):

me too, I mean it's a powerful and beautiful song but it is also terrible and just pick some other damn song. How do you not instinctively know that?

I cannot really enjoy her after that.

Ungrayed because I share your Irish+guitar enthusiasm.

God, I'm such a stereotype. I would bang the bejeezus out of Hozier. Irish + guitar = YAASSSSSS

She also emphasized the ridiculousness of everything that was Madonna tonight ^_^

She took all the young "divas" to school. That performance was pretty damn perfect.

I'm guessing she was a Tressel fan, even Pryor to the tattoo.

YUP. I have covered that story, and Jez covered it before I was hired on. I routinely bring that up when I say there is far more evidence that trans women need to fear cis women in women's bathrooms than the reverse!

I do actually remember a specific instance of violence in the women's restroom involving a trans woman... except it was the trans woman who was getting assaulted by a helpless, fragile cis woman.

That is definitely not how Evergreen College went down at all. It's brought up a lot, but that was, as you say, an actual trans lady. Why the boys weren't punished for sneaking into the women's side... Sigh. That tells you everything you need to know about how fucked up this is.

She was expressly asked by Andy Cohen what her relationship was with Katie Holmes after she got together with Tom Cruise. Her response was that she called Katie several times and never received a response. It's not like she's going around complaining about it.

I've got this.