It’s possible that they had an arrangement whereby he could have extramarital sex as long as he was discreet. I don’t have a problem with her being fine with that.

Martha Jones drove me crazy, but I know what you mean. I spend a lot of time confused about Clara’s motivations, which is weird, because they keep trying to sell her as this outspoken, strong character who knows what she wants. Instead it comes across to me as her being loud and outspoken, but for no reason and about…

In addition to what everyone else is saying about the coded language about body types, I think “teen” porn has a dynamic of virginity and seduction - like, one teen is often a virgin and has to at least nominally be persuaded into it. Whereas most other porn (at least from what I’ve seen) is like, “Oh, you have…

Oh god, we used to write letters to the Tooth Fairy imploring her to leave our teeth. I kept mine in this little enameled tortoiseshell box with a latch. It was tiny and thus filled to the brim with teeth - some of which had been pulled and still had their roots.

YES. THANK YOU. The eagerness with which people are attacking Joan Jett instead of Kim Fowley is disheartening and upsetting.

I mean, it definitely sounds like she is trying to say, “That wasn’t my interpretation of what happened” without actually undermining Jackie. Which, honestly, I think is kind of fair. She was a young teen who was probably pretty fucked up at the time, and her interpretation of events was and has been different. Now…

You can’t brush her hair?

I spent aaaages trying to figure out what the legal terminology “let [her] walk in through the back door” meant. Like, slipping in an illegal witness?

Hahahah! Don’t they notice that they are barefoot when they go outside? How do they walk home?

I get it, I do. I don’t think Joan comes off great in this. It sucks.

Plus it’s just a really weird thing to be so all over someone about. Like...Ladyology puts quotes in a place you think they are unnecessary. She pretty clearly explained her thought process there. At worst, it causes you a moment of confusion. There is no need for this continued onslaught.

This has gotten astonishingly aggressive. I get that the other commenter already hated you because of your “bragging” about your “education” or whatever, but I am sorry that GUACandCHIPS is being so hard on you about a punctuation choice that you’ve explained pretty clearly. Way too maintain grace under extremely…

My guess would be that we just don’t hear about the less intelligent psychopaths because they don’t have the ability to persuade others and avoid getting caught that the more intelligent ones do. It’s one thing to be disposed to manipulate people; it’s another thing to be smart enough to do it.

Right? Back when Mara Grey started trying to be a thing again, she wrote an article (maybe on Cracked) about being a child actor. One of the things she said was that her parents really, really didn’t want her to get into Hollywood, but she wanted it so badly that they had to.

I see that, but to respond with a comment exclusively about Joan Jett on an article about Kim Fowley raping an unconscious 14-year-old seems troubling to me. You can think that Joan Jett should have handled ALL of this better, definitely, but I am saddened by the number of people who read about a horrifying rapist and…

I am really sad at the number of comments focusing on Joan instead of the monster who raped a passed out, underage girl.

Because making it something you take a class on reinforces the idea that braiding and brushing hair is some mystical Woman process that is difficult, if not impossible, for men to learn.

Yeah, but like...practice on some string. Braiding is just not that fucking hard. Doing super complex braids maybe is, but a basic braid is insanely easy, and you can practice it with any three strands of any material.

It’s because you can practice on your own as often as you like. Learning how to braid other people’s hair is rough at first because you have to have willing participants who will accept a shitty braid. Learning to braid your own hair is something you can do over and over again when you’re bored, until you know just…

I don’t know; I live in another country, and while I am sometimes happy to talk about politics, more often I wish that it wasn’t such a common question. Traveling is one thing, because you are more “on” when you’re traveling and open to meeting people and talking about whatever. Natalie Portman lives in the US, and it…