I think I have problems listening to Billie herself is because the pain of her life was always there in her voice, no matter what she was singing about.

The nicest compliment that I've ever gotten came from a queen at a drag show. She told me that I looked like a cross between Sheryl Lee Ralph and Audra McDonald. I fucking floated away.

Good thing I didn't involuntarily cry just now in a courthouse bathroom because that would be WEIRD.

i sobbed hysterically the whole second half, ngl. the only thing that saved me from not COMPLETELY freaking out was the 3 mini bottles of pinot grigio i had in my purse and the fact that i was surrounded by 13 year old girls who all went batshit when they saw a glimpse of ansel's abs during the "sex" scene

Because Al Jazeera content tends to be head and shoulders above anything else available on the American airwaves with the possible exceptions of PBS and BBC World.

Interestingly enought, I and many young women I know have at some point been enrolled in a self-defense class for girls. However, I do not know ANY boy who has ever been enrolled in a "how not to rape or sexually harass women" class. All kind of self-defense classes for girls are somewhat common in my country, they…

Nobody is saying they can't be done in conjunction - people are simply pointing out that they are not being done currently in conjunction. When the conversation is 90% telling women what they should be doing so they shouldn't be raped, and 10% talking about telling men not to rape, it's hardly wrong to point out that…

I don't think you understand football is the biggest sport in the world. NFL is a sideshow by comparison.

Exactly. This is an international organization so no one government can do anything. In theory the only way to blow up FIFA is to develop an alternate to the ruling body for Football/Soccer for 150 countries. That's like starting an alternate the UN and trying to get countries to flip.

If they are capable of making this stuff then they should just be given a pass... They've already proved that they're smart.

Excuse me, but that is really very unfair, I'm sorry. The lede very clearly says "open-pit toilet." Please don't forget that we have character limits on headlines and we cannot always be 100 percent accurately descriptive. Sometimes a headline has get a complex idea across in a very limited space. (Knowing that I…

Separate floors? I'm in another state! Plus I work late nights, when everyone else has gone home to endrunken themselves and play video games, so it's pretty just me on my, pushing buttons and hoping I don't blow up the Internet.

Rawls always makes me think of this:

I cannot hear the name "Rawls" without thinking:

Did you just Godwin in here? Goddamnit, I just had the carpets cleaned.

HIPAA violations are MAJOR. There are medical privacy laws for REASONS. That idiot Rawls is fucked.

Yes, thank you, the answer is in your last sentence. We write different stories for different audiences. Lots of people on Jezebel don't read Gawker and vice versa. (I think we even have data that shows how true that statement is). If we operated under that model of not writing about what another Gawker Media site…

You get a D-. Put a little effort in your trolling.

Native Floridian and my commute to my underemployed job is THE WORST. The people/culture/attitude in certain areas suck too, but it's really pretty chill.