Don’t apologize for using your own experiences as insight into what can be a very complex issue. If someone who disagrees with you feels strongly enough to reply, they should explain why they disagree rather than throw out a condescending dismissive response, especially given the civil tone of your original comment.

I’d say it’s a little more complicated than that. The first denial wasn’t very explicit and happened the same year she released a song she wrote that more explicitly implied it did happen. Yes, there are benefits to holding someone responsible for wronging you or even to falsely accusing, but they both come at a cost.…

Eh. They were driving around my neighborhood on meth, with a loaded gun in the car, following a UPS driver, stealing packages off people’s doorsteps. So, I feel some pity, but also some fear of them. I think it’s more a portrait of drug use than general poverty (which I know, at times have correlation).

Frequently? To her own detriment? Years? No benefit? No evidence? That’s a remarkable number of incorrect assumptions packed into one sentence.

Seriously. With Assange and Wikipedia on that list, not really a surprise that the head of the firm is an entitled douche secret misogynist.

Thanks for the quote. I googled that up and it’s from Madonna: An Intimate Biography, which unlike other Madonna bios was not based on previously published materials but on interviews and on findings from private investigators. Not an authorized bio (always boring), maybe or maybe not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

The staff, I think, has shown exactly the opposite. They became aware of behavior that was inapposite to the ideals and goals of the firm and killed it. The conservative response would have been to have him resign to “spend more time with his family” and bury the allegations as deeply as possible.

Because women are more likely to lie to protect abusers than they are to make false allegations of abuse? It’s really fucking hard to tell people that someone as beloved as Sean Penn did a terrible thing to her, it’s not that hard to say he didn’t.

It’s nice to know this kind of hypocrisy isn’t limited to Republican politicians and pastors.

I have seen the same thing so many times. Some people also find it too humiliating to admire they were abused. Some people also never get away from wanting the abuser to them as a good girl or good boy.

Yup. I have a friend who when escaping her abuser, made audio recordings of the abuse, in order to be able to help with her eventual escape. In the recordings, you can hear her being struck and crying out, but she swears that he never hit her. When you ask her to clarify what the noises are in the tapes, she will tell…

That’s still kind of vague. And that was the same year she released ‘Til Death Do Us Part, which strongly implied it happened. She has been ambiguous until now.

Till Death Do Us Part (1989)

“When Madonna staggered into the station, she was distraught, crying, with makeup smeared all over her face. I hardly recognized her as Madonna, the singer. She was weeping, her lip was bleeding and she was all marked up. She had obviously been struck. This was a woman in trouble, no doubt about it.”

Do you know what a comments section is?

I don’t work with legal writing at all, hence my question: is it customary to use this kind of word order: “completely outrageous, malicious, reckless, and false”? The most important adjective, the one that touches on the facts themselves (“false”), is last instead of first. It doesn’t read as sincere as it would if…

It's touching that she immediately refuted the malicious charges (28 years later).

Katy Perry has an amazing body, but this photo looks so uncomfortable and like they straight up photoshopped the undersides of her arms off.

I’m not an internet random. I’m a reader of your website. So is everyone else in this thread. This blog is meant to be a spot where women are empowered. If you look at the replies to this thread, a number of women who are tall feel that the writer was marginalizing their struggles with having atypical body types.…

Don’t worry. Kara Brown is on the case.