Her family, particularly her father, had pressured her to fabricate the story precisely because they were upset by Ramirez coming out as gay.

When I found out about her passing, I was at what turned out to be a bar that she and some friends would occasionally pop into on karaoke night. She is said to have belted out an amazing “I Will Survive.”

Trumpster fire. 2016 is a Trumpster fire.

Perhaps the very rareness you point out is why we remember...

Women are mutilated by their partners on such a regular basis that it barely makes the news. In my area alone in the last 2 years a woman’s husband cut her breasts off and a woman who went to my high school had acid thrown in her face by her bf. The acid thrower got a whopping 2 years in prison.

I hate this. I miss old Jez.

Well, the writers here have a long and proud history of loving and then subsequently hating the (usually white) woman du jour. Way back in the day, we liked Anne Hathaway, but then I guess she “tried too hard”. Then JLaw was OMIGOD JUST LIKE US until apparently her realness wasn’t real enough. Amy Schumer, Lena…

Stop. Just fucking stop. Listen to your readership.

I think their snark was calibrated to the liberal elite, but, in the age of Trump, it rings totally hollow. There’s a fascist coming to the White House, but Lady Gaga phrased something imperfectly.

Between this and that needlessly nasty write-up on Kristen Davis yesterday, it’s starting to feel like Television Without Pity around here.

Sorry, completely off-topic, but does this picture of Lady Gaga used in the header not look like Gaga to anyone else, or is it just me? Thanks.

I don’t understand her, but I feel for her. You don’t know how you deal with fame until you are there. I’m happy for her success in doing what she loves, and sad that some of it holds her back. She has focused on her fans during her career and I genuinely believe she cares about connecting with people on a basic human…

Woman not allowed to have complicated feelings about career. News at 10.

The snark this week has been so confusing to me

Dude give her a break, she was 22 years old in 2008. Just because you study something, just because you hear other people’s stories DOES NOT mean you will feel like those stories will apply to you one day. Maybe back then she really wanted fame. Maybe she doesn’t now because she’s literally almost an entire decade…

Ugh, the snark really isn’t necessary. Famous people are still people.

This is ridiculous. It’s is like cutting off your nose to spite your face and then crying about the void in the middle of your head. It’s like getting liposuction and longing for your fat cells.

I’m not understanding the reason for the snark here?!?!

Not bad at all. Empathy meter at 0.

Shut up, Rich. Go away.