Am I the only one who thinks that virulent shit talking should be relegated to exclusively amongst friends and not in the public eye?

They weren’t remotely accusatory, Hannah. I talked to Shana several times and expressed a very sincere and genuine curiosity about SSM and a willingness to hear what drew you guys to it (and in your case I would’ve asked about your partnership with International).

I’ve tried to read through the comments of supporters, but can’t really glean a single, explicit thing that has been done to you or happened to this group’s supporters. It is all very vague and general, stuff like, “this place made me who I am today!” and other pamphlet-style generalisms. The stuff about the…

Hard returns & paragraph breaks are NOT hot at all. They are some real crazy bitches.

After reading this, it seems to me like “SuperHottieHannah” might be International’s newest moniker?

I want to know why all the women in this group who have written here all sound like valley girls.

At what level (and at what cost) does the Superstar Machine bestow the arcane knowledge of paragraph breaks? Because the SSM posters in these comments are posting some completely-unreadable walls of texts up in here.

Also: “Hot School teaches women how to be damn hot. Like, really smokin hot, to men.” You say that like…

I’ve read your entire comment, and the only thing I got out of it is that Superstar Machine is even more sexist than the article depicted. Thanks for the insight!

It’s way not hot you guys. Like totally.

Back in the very early 90s when I was an aspiring actress, I joined this group called the Actors Information Project which looked like something that would help kickstart my career and on the surface, it kind of did. But it didn’t take long to scratch beneath what seemed like a legit career coaching organization, to…

In our second phone call, Kuhn-Siegel responded: “Are members free to text? That question is not that interesting to me. I feel like it puts me in a defensive posture, and I don’t feel like I have anything to defend really.”

I got kicked out of my Christian youth group because I had too many questions. Still one of my proudest religious moments. At fourteen I’d already read the whole bible a few times over (skipping the begats because fuck that) and I had a lot of questions. The youth leader was only able to parrot back what he’d been…

Maybe it’s from decades of Catholic teaching but I can’t understand how people have a hard time recognizing a cult when they see one. Just a relatively quick description of the meeting and the general heirarchy of the situation told me that it’s a cult, and that is without knowing the end goals which only reinforce…

Three quick keys to figuring out if you’re in a dangerous cult.

So much funny in four paragraphs. “whose palette contains thousands of years of mystic tradition...” Written like a true mystic. A 13-year-old mystic with a spiral notebook and a sparkle gel pen.

I got thrown out of a cult once, and it was BRILLIANT! These things are awful and just... I wish more people would speak their mind IN the meetings. I was invited to one (now that I think on it, I do wonder if it wasn’t mostly women), and they told everyone that the source of our problems stemmed from trauma inside…

Just here to say dude ripped off a female songwriter because of course he did. OF COURSE this clown stole from a powerful creative woman, even for the (penultimate) name. Joni Mitchell, “Free Man in Paris”. I hope she sues his ass.

“He said men asked too many questions,” Poppy says. “And interrupted what he was trying to do.”

If someone was going to found a cult based on Divine, it would sure be better than this.

If the viewer pays attention during the first film, the only one of the lot who’s remotely scientific is Spengler. Venkman is an outright fraud, and his methods are atrocious. Even though Murray largely drives the film, his character is a snake oil peddler throughout, and Spengler does most of the heavy scientific…