Kim (and Khloe, and a few cousins)

So you punished a woman for something her man did. That is some really great feminist shit you are doing with your group.

I...have some news about Liberace.

Not really. Diabetes is killing many. Carbs are evil and unnecessary.

Probably, but I feel like he’s probably the most energizing person you could ever meet. Super well-educated and smart and energetic and batshit insane. Like you could have a great argument with him?

Travolta was in Hairspray, which is about the closest he’s come to playing gay. Of course, you could make the argument that Stayin’ Alive was the closest. . .

Cruise played Lestat

It’s just two people connecting, with four other people, and aliens.

Trying to comprehend the “English” used by this Diplo guy is actively lowering my IQ. (Did that sound smug? GOOD.)

or bloodborne pathogens!

My mom has a terminal cancer and she just says to me “I’m not going to just lay here and die” but she does not discuss it outside of just discussing the medical shit. This is her 3rd time. I’ve had to ask her questions like “are you afraid you’ll die in your sleep, is that why you stay up all night long?” or “are you…

This was a really interesting article - thanks, Jia! Her comments about fucking sympathy cards made me laugh. I lost my Dad just about a year ago, and got all kinds of sympathy cards. I’d usually get them just trying to get through a day, and they’d just make me feel worse. The people who came to his funeral, or…

I could maybe be reading too much into what EW was saying, but I think part of the problem with how we treat mental v. physical illness is visibility. When you are physically ill, its typically very apparent to bystanders, the outside world, your friends and family that you are suffering. With mental illness, people…

I know all about this. I watched The Arrival (1996) starring Charlie Sheen.

I think she means it more in a comparison way - like nobody has sympathy or compassion or understanding towards mental illness but physical illnesses get treated differently. I can understand that.

My mom is dying (not from cancer) and I think the urge to feel in control or still like yourself and not like “the patient” can be very strong and the only way to make it through for some people. It’s not necessarily about making it easier for bystanders, as you say. The “pink ribbon” bullshit can be super oppressive,…

I thought it was a joke on reconstructive surgery-plastic boobs-strippers... Just me?

I think she gets to call HER cancer whatever she likes. She doesn’t owe to other people to be sick the way they approve. She has her experience,your friend has hers,other people have theirs. And talking about HER experience doesn’t in no way makes her responsible for other people expectations or their lack of empathy.

Yeah, I understand how her way of talking about it would be really upsetting to people who are more in danger for any reason — my personal view on the issue is that however people manage their own shit, particularly when it comes to something like cancer, is good for them. If it’s good for her to be dismissive of…

In before this comment section gets loaded down with people who hate Wurtzel. Welp, I love her. Not everything she writes is a win (that NYMag piece a few years back was pretty terrible), but when she’s good, she is great. Bitch was awesome (where she was the only, and I mean the ONLY feminist who tried to defend Amy…