It is. It shows how conditioned people have become to accept exploitation as a means of survival. and how we’ve lost the capacity to empathize with others who are also being exploited.

That this comment has 135 stars as I write this says nothing negative about the commenter, and everything negative about America, and the state of corporate culture.

I will check it out. I’m just so glad that her life hasn’t come to a screeching halt. That she still works. That she still writes. That she spoke out. This could easily not be the case.

Every time Spike Lee touches on women’s sexuality he cannot get beyond his own fantasies. I like Spike, and making art about your fantasies is OK, of course. We should just remember that when it comes to women’s sexuality in a Spike Lee Joint, that is what’s going down. Nothing more.

Yeah, what the fuck is that all about? Open snitching hours? Open cunt hair tweezing hours?

What kind of employment can you have so that you never have to deal with these kinds of politics ever? Serious question.

Sexual crime can mark the victim in a unique way. There’s no stigma attached to the subjects of the images you discuss.

This bums me out so, so badly. I believe people, it’s this thing (I’m working on it) so when the author said upthread that this was OK with her, I just accepted that. I’m so sorry to see this is not the case. Very retraumatizing.

That’s good. Because I was beginning to wonder if there was any way you could possibly believe that the world this man was born into would in any way reasonably lead to him having a speech pattern that resembled yours. I also wondered if you thought that speaking with formal syntax and grammar is something deeply…

Are you being serious MegSwan?

Are you kidding?

Came here to defend NM because artistically I think the GQ shoot works for the most part. It has the feel of a commentary on the phenomena of Instagram that resonates with me, particularity the shot in the blue and purple striped dress and clearly, she’s cornered into making a choice about whether or not to take…

Wow. This is harsh.

The protagonist’s father was also his psychiatrist. That piece of the narrative addressed abuse of power.

I loved it. I still remembering the yearning between Braff and Portman. Portman was exquisite.

Off Topic but if this is real...

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I used to be a huge fan. Fuck it. Forget it. I’m legit finished now.

Agreed. He stepped out of his medium. He’s an innovator within his medium He just doesn’t have traditional oratory prowess. It’s to his credit though, ultimately that he really makes himself quite vulnerable during these unpolished episodes. And with all problems I have with him marrying that woman (and it does make…

Ever since The Lyricist Lounge Show Ross has been on blast as an intellectual.