But she says that she’s not getting milk from it, just a snack. Granted, I wasn’t able to nurse my son, but that’s confusing. There are lots of ways to soothe a child so they can sleep. 

Unless I misunderstood the article, the film doesn’t mention her name and the filmmakers just said the story is directly inspired by Amanda Knox. There’s nothing illegal about that, or uncommon. I mean, Law and Order built a franchise on it. It would be different if they had made a movie that was about Amanda Knox,…

I mean.. he does call himself DaBaby, so he is telling you the level of his maturity and intelligence.

Honestly Elton was a lot classier and more thoughtful than I would have ever been if I were in his shoes. If I was Elton John and someone asked me about it all I would say is “what the fuck is DaBaby?” Cause like for real. Who even are you? Sit your ass down.

The 1 in 2 lifetime risk of a gay black man contracting HIV is 100% true, in case anyone doubted it - I definitely thought it was a mistake the first time I heard it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5524204/

Elton John could buy DaBaby’s production company and assets and sink the guy fast enough to make his head spin. That he kept it to message just shows that he’s elevated the conversation way above the professional landscape that DaBaby will ever see.

I know Elton John has gotten some flack on this site for being friends with Marshall Mathers. But he’s really seems like a thoughtful human being who has made great contributions to the world. When he speaks people really do listen.

While I naturally agree on the central theme, a couple of points that I found myself pondering while reading this. First, has there really been that much criticism, at least my main stream sports media, about Biles’s decision to withdraw? At least the major sites I follow have reported it as a shocking decision, which…

Not to ring the alarm unnecessarily, but were these “inexcusable and unacceptable” comments....racist?

Kind of reckless to imply it might have been racist (in the original article).

Good for her for pulling herself out and putting her mental health first....

The second vault didn’t “end her career.” The injury unfortunately kept her out of the all-around competition and event finals at that Olympics, but her decision to retire soon thereafter was not based on physical inability. Strug had already won team medals in two Olympic Games, she was starting college, and felt it…

I read that she said she doesn’t trust herself as much as she used to and that really hit home. The events of the last 18 months has completely undermined my trust in myself and other people in ways I don’t totally understand but it is a mindfuck. And I’m not flying through the air and landing exceptionally difficult…

As a child with a decent gift for playing the piano, my hands would turn to rubber at recitals because I was so nervous in front of an audience. I won a medal in front of judges, but an auditorium? Forget it. So I’ve known firsthand from an early age what a powerful force psychology is on performance.

It’s almost a perverse way of maintaining the pressure that Biles seems to be buckling under.

Yeah, I’m thrown off by how everyone seems to be saying , “GREAT! This is fantastic news!” It is not fantastic news. It sucks for her teammates, it sucks for the people who could have gone in her place, and quitting mid-competition is really not something to celebrate. We can be compassionate about the decision, but…

I wouldn’t term this as choosing her health. She hadn’t been performing that great since the qualifiers and I feel like that gets into your head. It’s a lot of pressure on her, and I assume because those past little hiccups each performance psych you out, she didn’t want to also have the pressure of messing something…

Can we find some more nuanced way of discussing this? Can we acknowledge that it is important and right for Biles to look after her mental and physical health, while also acknowledging that what happened to day was not, in fact, “worth celebrating?” It is unfortunate that she was unable to complete the competition and…

she hadn’t been that impressive in the qualifications, at least from what I saw.

It’s complicated, because I just can’t square the two ideas that 1) she can withdraw from the competition for her own totally valid mental health reasons and 2) she can still be the “greatest.”