It implies that it is her fault that it wasn’t caught in time and was as bad as it was.

Another important thing to remember is that we are socialized to downplay signs of mental illness until its too late. And we think it cant happen to someone we love and know

Also, she just went through a very traumatic event, too. I’m sure it doesn’t help if you are working through your own shit. Like, come on people, there is only so much stress and trauma people can withstand at once before your thinking is compromised and you have to go on auto-pilot for survival. Yes, they have money…

Also, he was traveling on tour and she was in hiding still recovering from being personally targeted, tied up and held at gunpoint a few months ago. She’s probably dealing with her own fear issues and he’s been erratic, paranoid, and making grandiose statements for years. Who can blame her for not knowing what was…

Also when you’ve recently been through your own traumatic event.

I feel like this item is designed to make his breakdown somehow her fault. Like, don’t forget, ladies, his illness is your responsibility and anything it does to him or anyone else is your fault!

It would be nice if this could spark a public conversation about how to recognize when someone is suffering a breakdown, but I’m sure it’ll instead be about shitting on Kim Kardashian for not seeing it sooner.

Being in a relationship with someone who has bipolar and is unmediated can be devastating. It feels impossible to stay and impossible to leave. Never thought I’d feel so much empathy for Kim.

No. We’re calling out Robert’s logically flawed argument. It’s circular and it doesn’t make sense.

I just feel like the civility of the exchange is allowing people to ignore what’s being said and the actual takeaway from this. No, it wasn’t a name calling expletive laden fight, but this is what racial gaslighting looks like.

You’re right that she gets to interpret it however she wants. I’m not going to label Margaret Cho’s response. I think weird is the most gracious way to describe Swinton’s behavior because she was totally trying to find an Asian friend to cosign.

Cho’s comment about feeling like a servant following her around makes more sense when you put it in those terms.

She has a side and she used Margaret Cho as an Asian sounding board.

I like Cho very much. I think she’s gotten dinged for the very things that got male comedians celebrated, like being loud and cranky and obnoxious. I think she’s got a lot of built up anger at an industry that refused to see her outside of her race and gender and sexuality, while beating her up for ever daring to…

So what about the blackwashing that happened then?

This is a serious issue I see cropping up. You can’t bitch about people not knowing things and also be willing to not tell them when they ask about those things in good faith.

But a mutual friend connected them. Don’t you think it might be reasonable that Tilda said, “hey friend I am worried about these accusations of white washing.” And friend said, “hey my good friend Margaret Cho could probably help answer your questions.”

It’s similar to what went down with Star Trek Into Darkness. They were afraid if they cast an Indian guy to play Khan, well, then their climx is literally a middle eastern dude flying a large aircraft into skyscrapers and causing a huge disaster. They weighed things and went with casting a white guy as Khan as the…

Hmmm. If you’re interested, the context for the conversation starts at about the 25 minute mark, with the Swinton conversation coming in closer to 30. Interestingly, she said that a mutual friend first requested if she could give Swinton her number to discuss the topic, so the email was still out of the blue but one…

I think the key fact here is that Swinton reached out to Cho in May, ended the convo succinctly by talking about the film she was producing (for which she should prob get some credit IMHO) and said “to be continued,” but, by her own admission, that was the sum total of their interaction. So basically, she wanted Cho…