- Contact his victims through safe third parties and make whatever specific amendments or apologies they direct him would be most helpful to them
- Contact his victims through safe third parties and make whatever specific amendments or apologies they direct him would be most helpful to them
Also basically the entire time he was writing on Jezebel Black women on Twitter and blogs were shouting that he was harassing and abusive towards them in interactions, and it went totally ignored by white feminist blogosphere until he admitted to student misconduct.
Yes, that’s not supposed to be real. It’s Joanne the Scammer, a character created by a comedian for online skits.
I stopped at 20ish months (because she was a milk vampire, had it been up to me we would have stopped way earlier) and never was breastfed myself, but WHO guidelines are to breastfeed up until at least 2 if possible especially in countries with variable water quality or nutrition access. It’s not that unusual.
It’s really enough to make you start believing weird Scientology conspiracy theories. I in general tend to think of them as an authoritarian thuggish and wrong organization but not “secretly in charge of all LA institutions,” but what other incentive in the world would people have to protect this guy? He’s not…
If they’re smart they will nominate Get Out for every award under the sun - it was genuinely excellent and creatively innovative with great performances but it was also massively popular and people will tune in to see it. Plus it allows the opportunity to have conversations about politics and culture where the movie…
I think Variety only published today because he got fired, they were probably working on sources with more disturbing stories to talk, and then somebody talked to NBC first. The coming weeks should bring plenty more into the open. Dropping your pants in front of people and sending them sex toys are easily fire-able…
Nope - Black people using the n-word is fine and non-Black people using it isn’t, end of story and clearly true by any moral, ethical, or historically informed standard. ‘TOP TEN’ song lyrics aren’t a magic excuse, and the thousands of white people that manage to sing lyrics to great songs while skipping the one word…
What’s of value to people about government money isn’t that it’s made of paper not encryption - it’s that a military, police force, and court system are willing to enforce its rules. Right now Bitcoin requires that you be personally savvy or personally scary enough to enforce the rules yourself, which most people…
Because currencies by their nature have no inherent value except the value imbued to them by some system enforcing that value across multiple actors. Your dollar isn’t edible, tradeable, or worth anything to you unless someone’s willing to bet that after they trade you their goods and services for it a legal system…
The underlying assumption that harassment is based on attractiveness or cultivated attractiveness is clearly untrue and dumb but even if it was...who cares? I open myself up to specific and unique forms of sexism by having kids, is it my responsibility to not have kids then? I open myself up to unique and specific…
I don’t know if she’s going through some kind of personal awakening or extending the brand, but she (and the sisters) has become pretty politically active lately. The last two episodes of KUWTK were each half-devoted to a tour of Planned Parenthood and of L.A.’s tent cities, with real calls to donate and get involved…
They’re not saying massage therapists are bad people - but any profession where you have extra access to unquestioned authority, children, or naked or otherwise vulnerable people has an extra responsibility to be especially diligent about practitioners because, as the quote points out, predators will automatically be…
I don’t know why they haven’t done a modern “And Then There Were None” yet. It’s basically a Saw movie, but classed up and with psychological motivation.
This is nonsense. The Kochs have spent a billion dollars up and down ballots in order to ensure they and a few friends get a series of unneeded and draconian tax cuts that ensure no woman, racial minority, or poor person will ever have a social safety net again if they were to pass permanently. They advocate for…
I think there were a lot of hints this episode (Paul getting rid of a hospital mandate nurse, Dr. Akopian’s comment, Rebecca asking her not to come into the bedroom) that the show will soon be addressing the unhealthiness of Paula and Rebecca’s dynamic in a much more serious way. At least, I hope so!
Josh isn’t evil or anything - but his self-absorption, ultimate overriding interest in being seen as a good guy, and total avoidance of hard stuff are all character traits that far predate his interactions with Rebecca. Those are themes of his lengthy and yet not satisfying or honest relationship with Valencia, things…
Ariely wasn’t talking about the specific incident described in the article - he was describing his research, which simply looked at the effect of arousal in all subjects on their convictions about condom usage. In that context, asking to not use one and agreeing are both mistakes in a pretty neutral sense, they don’t…
It’s less a part of evangelical culture than it is a part of evangelical homeschool/fundamentalist culture (more Quiverfull, not Willow Creek), which is a very particular and disturbing minority subset of American evangelicals. Influential, but I don’t think a sufficient explanation for these stories - many more folks…
I’m white too, and I tend to think that as a white person in a white supremacist system, sometimes all of the options before us are racist in one way or another, because the whole enchilada is racist. So I try to think about decision making as not “What is the not racist option?,” but “How do I reduce the impact of…