Same here! I loved him as a youngun and he turned out about as well as my major childhood crush (a community college dropout whose facebook photos are all of him with various women in bikinis/drinking at house parties) who I asked out and got rejected by twice.

I live in New Orleans! With a Dem mayor and a Dem-lite governor! There are multiple major hospitals in the area, including the one literally attached to the giant healthcare institution I work for.

I’ve been trying to get a COVID test for the past few days and I had no idea how difficult it still was.

I think the 70s was the time when it was dangerous because of toxic waste from the American Can, lol.

My partner and I share a (very small) office space. Normally, he uses his desk to work from home 3 days a week. I use my desk for writing novels after 9-5 hours.

I have literally never defended that relationship, which is only a small part of the reason that argument is a textbook example of whataboutism. 

What a supportive, feminist boyfriend! /s

The tactic behind whataboutism has been around for a long time. Rhetoricians generally consider it to be a form of tu quoque, which means “you too” in Latin and involves charging your accuser with whatever it is you’ve just been accused of rather than refuting the truth of the accusation made against you. Tu quoque…

I don’t think it’s remarkably condescending to say “we all make mistakes in our early 20s” or to say that I don’t think dating him is a smart decision.

Of course her feelings are valid. My point is that no one is looking at the situation and thinking negatively of her character.

You mean you don’t regret spending your 30s taking care of your children instead of an elderly man (and maybe also children)?

As someone who loves Florence Pugh, that relationship, and her reaction to the criticism she gets, makes me so sad. She takes it all as an attack on her and her ability to make her own choices as an adult, when it’s not that at all. It is the gross ass man in a relationship with someone half his age—taking advantage…

The bayou from my username is known to be super dangerous to swim in, not because of alligators, or toxic waste, or currents, but because the mud on the bottom is really easy to get stuck in.

YA definitely has its problems, but I don’t think it’s as bad as it looks.

Thanks for sharing this! I used to watch that guy on Cracked all of the time. This new (to me) show looks amazing!

“Cancel culture is toxic and bad” people are just an off-shoot of the “the first amendment gives me the right to say whatever I want with zero consequences” people.

No worries. When I was younger, I’d watch (and re-watch) documentaries about Rowling when I was feeling down on myself as a writer. At least all of that knowledge is useful for something nowadays.

It’s not trans people. It’s her dad, who instilled in her severe internalized misogyny (she talked about in her Bigot’s Manifesto, as well as in countless interviews over the years).

I think it’s still just hitting people that—after many years of believing the opposite—this person is awful. A lot of people aren’t ready to fully accept it yet.

I have a friend who is super passionate about makeup—the sort of person who’ll wear green mascara to work if it goes with her outfit. She’s even dabbled in it as a way to make extra cash.