Oh, christ, THANK YOU. She was THE person who called out the Catholic Church long before the sexual abuse scandal——and it wrecked her career in the US. She never gets credit for that or for calling them out about the Magdalene Laundries, either. On top of which, her music ranges from brilliant to genius. Miley knows…

ABSOLUTELY. Sinead has always been outspoken to the point that it's actually detrimental to her career. I don't think she's doing this for publicity.

This. I don't like how Sinead framed it, and she could have used better wording, but that letter wasn't just "put your legs together, young lady!"

If someone co-opted my art to create something that I considered an abomination of the principles which guided my art, I'd speak up too. Sinead shaved her head to subvert the expectation that she'd sell herself sexually as a female artist only to, twenty years later, watch someone who claims to be inspired by her…

As an aside, to get through these comments with my sanity intact I've decided that everyone accusing Sinead of trying to piggyback on Miley for attention must be Miley's age. You can't know even two things about Sinead O'Connor and believe that.

She didn't inject herself into this for no reason. The open letter was in direct response to Miley's claim that she was paying homage to Nothing Compares 2 U with the Wrecking Ball video.

Yeah I wasn't a fan of the "behaving like a prostitute" bit, but I'm still with Sinead overall. Making fun of mental illness is such an asshole thing to do.

I like that the guy gets a more phallic doorknob

Cheryl Miller used to dominate her brother (a guy who goes by Reggie) in one on one games. I think she could have hung with the boys professionally at that time. She was just as athletically gifted as Reggie and seemed to have a better head for the game.

The point is, you can look at athletes on a case by case basis. Maybe the "average" woman isn't as strong as the "average" man (who knows, though), but lots of women are stronger/more athletic that lots of men.

How could you know if you keep forcibly excluding them? Women are improving in sport at a faster and faster rate - much faster than men due to better funding, better legislation and an increased sports culture around women. 100 years ago people had no clue that women could swim, run and play as well as they do now,…

I've had this conversation with my partner several times. I'm a firm believer that women should be in the NFL, MLB, NHL, and NBA, if any want to.

Eh, if you look at a tattoo as a snapshot of your life when you got the tattoo its not such a bad idea, in my opinion. Even if you fall out of love with someone and break up, the tattoo is a reminder of the person you once were, that was once in love with that person. With that attitude, tattoos become a picture…

While I agree that you're getting a lot of blowback, I'm a little unclear on why you're so adamant in your defense of Allen. Even if he didn't technically commit any crimes (hard to know, but for the sake of argument, let's say he didn't) don't you find his behavior horrific? While he and Farrow never married, they…

Woody Allen is an incredibly talented director, a great artist, truly. But let's ask Mia Farrow's children what they think, shall we?