Oh wow.

Yeah, I mean I love my service. I met many great people throughout my time on active duty. But this was overseas and while I could have gone to the host nation, it just seemed insurmountable at the time.

I think the point of the Oliver piece was that even women who do participate don’t have access to the claimed amounts, most of which was fictional. I’m suspicious of any organization that can’t do enough math to determine just how much was awarded and is unwilling to mention it to their potential claimants.

let’s not forget Bill had a daughter with another woman, while married to Camille, she certainly knew that he was a philandering dick at the least. He had a reputation as a “womanizer” when working on The Cosby Show, there is no way she doesn’t have an understanding of his nature.

John Oliver did an EXCELLENT take down of the whole bullshit idea that these are scholarship programs. I urge you to seek it out and be horrified!

Dottie stuck with Jerry. Even Donald Sterling’s wife stayed. These women have lives they are accustomed to ($$$) and don’t want to give up, no matter how disgusting their husbands are.

You have to do what is right for you as a person and for your life. I went the whole nine yards with my rapist, not only going through a whole trial, but I also testified against him in cases of several previous victims. I didn’t want to leave any possible way to ruin him on the table, because I didn’t want to have…

She was definitely the embodiment of the phrase ‘with friends like that, who needs enemies?’ I mean, we worked together and had lunch together sometimes.

I just died a little reading this. No one deserves that shit. I’ve experienced something similar, and no one believed me either. The police & everyone who didn’t know him VERY well took his side because he was much older than me and an authority figure. At least I had support from his employees, who knew what kind of…

Yeah that’s complete bullshit. I was in pageants in my teen years, and judges didn’t give a shit about how smart you were, how accomplished, what your career goals were, or how badly you actually needed scholarship money.

Thank you very much. I know they are just words but I appreciate it.

It was about 10 years ago so I’ve been able to heal. But thank you so much for the kind words.

I think there's something that changes because she is his business manager.

I was always really uncomfortable with that reasoning.* Are there any other scholarship programs that requires photographs of the applicant in swimsuits and formal wear?

Yeah, I feel bad for her, but then this whole situation is a lot closer to “really unfortunate” than a “great injustice.”

I completely understand that this must feel incredibly shitty for Gutierrez, and I actually agree with her that the way the organization handled it was weirdly incompetent, but am I the only person who feels like she could be, I dunno, more gracious and good-humored about the whole thing? I mean, no one ‘took your…

No offense, but this is your typical “Empower yourself!” motivational bullshit. Fifteen years ago, these people would’ve been doing the same thing in 13-step programs on VHS with the low, low payment plan of $120 per step. In fact, I’m pretty sure some of them have already done that. All TED did was a change in venue…

By which I mean, a brief session comprised of:

Blargh.