I get that. Her efforts continue to fulfill so many lives. I cannot apply criticism to that. Her family? That’s a whole other story.

It doesn’t outweigh the bad, but Eunice changed the world. I love her conviction that everyone needs something to do and something to strive for. Her validation of disabled people as PEOPLE was radical for its time.

I believe the writer of her biography Shadowland was a Scientologist and invented Farmer’s lobotomy. It was this book which was then adapted into Frances starring Jessica Lange.

I went down a Rosemary Kennedy rabbit hole a while back, after I discovered that she loved out her life near where I live. I have a daughter with intellectual disability, so it hit me really hard. How they abandoned her, basically, after the botched procedure. So very, very sad.

One good this is that Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics. Joe was a piece of shit, but something good did come out of this.

Oh, I hadn’t thought of that. I can see it now, the physicians hovering menacingly and in low tones insisting that the procedure is the Kennedy’s only hope.

If handled well, this movie should highlight how the disabled were and are handled in this country. The Kennedy kids suffered greatly under Joe Kennedy Sr and his expectations in some form or another and I can’t help but to feel that he created multiple generations of trauma victims as a result. Joe felt he had to…

This would be more interesting if it didn’t potentially reek of pro-Scientology-ness. (See the Frances Farmer biopic Frances.) Whereas Kennedy was lobotomized and Farmer actually was not, Rosemary Kennedy is still a topic Scientologists could eagerly run (amok) with.

Terrible.

I read a blind item that Hicks isn’t really dating Porter - that she’s really having an affair with Trump and the “relationship” with Porter is a smokescreen to keep people from suspecting the truth. Normally I would reject that as too ridiculous to be true, but after a year of this administration, I’m not sure…

It’s how we end up with this fucking D-list also-ran joke of an administration.

Because she’s the special one who can fix him, duh.

He cares if someone else hits his wife because she’s his property. He doesn’t care if someone hits their own wife. The idea that women are to be “cherished” is to diminish their agency. You cherish heirlooms, fragile and inanimate.

“Salt The Earth” is much catchier and enduring than suddenly bantam weight and tame “Drain The Swamp”.

“women are sacred” is only a call to go back to a point where women weren’t allowed to do much. We know that throughout history, women were never viewed as “sacred” let alone people with equal standing.

I’m not trying to victim blame here, but WTF Hope Hicks! I know (generally speaking) there are cases when men can easily lie to women and tell them that their ex was crazy or something didn’t happen the way it actually did, but she’s got WH intel proving that Porter abused his exes. Why is she dating him?!?!?!

Of course they knew! And they probably didn’t think there was a problem with him hitting / kicking / strangling his wives. As Jill Wine-Banks mentioned on MSNBC on Wednesday night this is systemic in the administration: 45, Puzder, Porter. She mentioned one other name, I think, but I can’t recall it now. (Like…

I’ve heard through a reliable grapevine that the NGO world is rife with sex-related issues from top to bottom.

Imagine if he’d said this to a catholic. Or one of those quiverful evangelicals? They are just as likely to have addiction issues as anyone else, and a trip before the judge for passing bad checks isn’t unheard of in poorer communities.

Irrelevant, but I hope that Jezebel does an article on this breaking story: