people shouldn’t be in prison for 53 years for basically anything.

I think I agree with you. I think it’s possible Hill thought that this relationship was what he wanted and I guess later realized he wanted practically the opposite. If you look at his present partner, she's quite different from Brady. Not better or anything, but certainly quite different.

“No, that is not even remotely correct.”

“Hey, I’m not sure I can get past my insecurities about all the dudes you work with while wearing a bathing suit so I’m going to step away from this relationship.”

My point is more or less that there is no structural difference between a “healthy boundary” and what we would term emotionally manipulative abuse. The ultimate difference between the two is whether we (or anyone considering the situation,) thinks the “ask” or demand is reasonable, or otherwise jibes with our sense of…

Boundaries are about your behavior and what you do, not about the other person.

as far as psychologists are concerned, boundaries are entirely about one’s own self and behavior.

But setting boundaries is something you do for yourself—not an excuse or moral justification to control others.

Yeah, that’s definitely shitty—but if you determine you really can’t live with it (you thought you could, but you can’t,) what is the answer? Stay in the relationship and be unhappy? Do you dump the person and lie as to the reason, or refuse to tell them why out of fear of producing a coercive effect or being…

I get that no one wants to be seen stanning either of these people, but I think it’s more than possible to acknowledge that while they’re both bad, Elon is much worse. And not only worse in the sense of “impact upon world,” but he’s somehow now cringier and more uncool seeming than Zuckerberg. M

I think it’s important to point out that the “you’re/they’re not listening”, the refusal to “change the narrative”, and “fuck you” to feminists, is prefaced in the article with this:

Also “A House is Not a Home” as performed by Luther Vandross, and, *some* would say, Jeff Buckley’s version of “Hallelujah”—I certainly wouldn’t say that (because I bizarrely really like Leonard Cohen’s singing voice,) but some would.

“But that it arrived on Comb’s cowboy heels is just kind of a bleak dose of reality.”

Insurrectionist respectability politics. I've seen it all.

I keep seeing comments (here and elsewhere,) that “of course the Weeknd would do this,” but I can’t find any allegations of sexual assault or harassment, grooming, intimate partner violence, etc. I get that people can simply get a bug up their ass about certain celebrities sometimes, and I understand that there’s…

But you know how big of a shit stain they are: HUGE. There’s no other media organization of comparable size and relative influence that is SO dedicated to misinformation (Russia Today maybe?)

Even if he’s acquitted—and he might well be—I think he’s still cooked career-wise. I don’t think he’s a big enough star to come back from apparently dozens of allegations of abuse, regardless of whether they’re first- or second-hand, and regardless of whether anyone ever comes forward to own the allegations.

Agreed—packing the Court just kicks the can down the field without addressing the systemic issues that made it possible for the GOP to capture the judiciary in the first place (and once captured, promulgate their substantive political agenda.)

“Jamie Manson, president of Catholics for Choice, told Jezebel that the ‘narrative that Catholicism is somehow antithetical to abortion rights is a right-wing narrative[.]’”

Agree with the “Eraserhead”. My initial impression of the movie was that there was a lot Jodorowsky in its sensibilities.