Tell me where I said, or made any statement that could even charitably be interpreted as my saying, that her trauma was “worth it”.

I can’t throw shade, my desk at work is typically a chaotic mess too.

True, but, I think that when it’s written about in the press, or even in official filings, the convention is to represent it as the party having performed service—e.g., "On or about X date, Plaintiff perfected service upon Defendant."

I'm also an attorney; co-signed.

“I know that’s not necessarily what you mean and I’ve seen enough of your past comments to know you’re a pretty empathetic person. But that’s how your comment essentially reads.”

Same here. The issue is that that’s just not an option anyone gets (at least not that I know of anyway.)

Unless your position is that the brevity of a rhetorical position is directly proportional to its validity (as ultimately determined by your subjective standard of what is ‘too long’,) your reply isn’t actually responsive to my comment.

This isn’t about excusing the wrongs done to her—there’s no excuse or justification for any form of child abuse, let alone that done on an industrial scale with with a profit motive. I’m saying that I hope whatever lingering animosity she may have for Ariana Grande, or regret over the course and trajectory of her…

I agree that she’d probably have preferred a normal or healthy childhood over whatever amount of money. In other on this matter, I have said: “I’m not saying that *I* would trade places with McCurdy, because my early years were an idyllic paradise compared to the shit she endured and must now deal with[.]”

Oh hey, someone un-grayed you! Way to go! 

“I don’t think you should count physical, mental, verbal (and rumored other abuses) as first world problems.”

I have registered your opinion (that my opinion is trash.) I sincerely appreciate your letting me know that you disagree with my position (in the strongest possible terms, no less,) rather than not understanding what I’m saying, because I might otherwise have wasted my time restating the position. Thank you for your…

“Financial security is great but there is a shit ton of baggage there that I wouldn’t trade for all the money in the world.”

If you actually read my comment, what I hope she’s thankful for is, specifically, the career she seemingly laments. The abuse McCurdy suffered at the hands of her mother does not appear to have been the result of having had a successful career as a child actor, so much as it was the result of her mother being an…

“what exactly is there to be thankful for?”

“a teenager with an abusive mother, in an abusive system”

The “What if” of the 2000 election still haunts me. Talk about the single most terrible event to occur in American politics in the past hundred years.

This is very simple: Republicans don’t understand human biology, don’t believe in correcting their own errors, and have cultivated a constituency of voting automata that require neither of them.

Ariana Grande may have derived an outsized benefit from factors wholly outside of her control (not the least of which are the circumstances of her birth,) but just as McCurdy sees Grande as having been born on third base compared to her, I’m sure there are lots of BIPOC child actors that would see McCurdy as having…

I believe it’s a high-pitched vocal register that is at least very difficult to pull off, and maybe impossible if you're not born with the right set of... pipes? I think I heard about this on a VH1 Behind the Music about Mariah Carey.