As someone who’s in treatment for PTSD for similar reasons (years of cheating and gaslighting and manipulation to cover it up)...not all cheating is abuse, but cheating can CERTAINLY be abusive. Especially when combined with years of lying and patterns of repeated behavior.

This echoes some of what others have said, but there can be some serious misogyny involved when a straight, cis guy cheats, especially when it is done in the ways Joss apparently did it. And I say all of this as someone who has both been cheated on and been the other woman (something that I consider to be the worst…

I didn’t take her remarks as a fuck you, which a lot of people seem to be alleging, but as a “Hey, these aren’t my secrets to keep for you, and I won’t live a less honest life in order to help shoulder your burdens, and bolster your reputation. I’m divesting myself of this weight, because I don’t want to be my…

Arguably, he put them there by being a cheating, gaslighting, reputation-shellacking douchebag. She just refused to keep covering for him.

Did you actually read her letter? She’s not saying her husband cheated. She’s saying that he gaslighted her for 20 years while he was a womanizer. There’s a big difference between committing infidelity and doing that. She says that she’s been diagnosed with complex PTSD since piecing together the truth.

If he really cared about his kid’s emotional health and well-being and shielding them from the fallout of infidelity, he could have kept his dick in his pants. That’s all I’m saying.

Eh, do you really think she should just slink off into the night?

I propose a 300 inch solar powered screen that consistently plays the video for “Pass That Dutch” on a loop.

“You mean white people right?”

I heard some really disturbing commentary about the Charlotte fiasco. (weapons caches). Your comments about what the nazis are there for is spot on. I hope people can get over their surprise about this shit quickly and actually collectively resist. BLM can’t do it on their own, nor should they have to. The fractured…

This should be MUCH HIGHER UP in the comments, thank you. This isn’t about being a lukewarm ally, or whatthefuckever, this is about what is actually effective. The whole goddamn point (as evidenced by the fact that the Charlottesville hate groups showed up heavily armed) is they want to provoke violence from the Left.…

You know how many people are incapable of empathy or action until it affects them? There’s a reason “first they came for...” is quoted so often.

See what I got from that speech was...if you’re too up your own ass to care about others then fucking care about yourself because these things will affect you too. I guess it is all about perspective.

“What’s most obnoxious about this clip is how Fey is encouraging people to actively ignore neo-Nazis, by characterizing the protests as “violent” and urging those who might otherwise be encouraged to physically show up to stay at home.”

As you note, Arnold has never been what one might call a progressive. He has some pretty toxic beliefs, in my opinion. So for someone like him to make a video like this speaks volumes about just how messed up things are in the US right now. I’m gonna go ahead and say something I never thought I would say: “well done,…

No one is coming for Jessie Williams?

Since Jezebel didn’t bother (and for some reason even the Guardian waited until the 5th paragraph) to report:

Genuine curiosity: do you have some inside knowledge of her friendship or lack thereof with Marianne Pearl? Because it seems weird to assume they aren’t friends anymore without actual knowledge.

This is me. I’m by no means an Angelina fan forever, but this is definitely one of those critiques that always hits home for me because I have very few friends - like, I’d say one really good female friend - and I would never want anyone to think I couldn’t be trusted for that reason.

I found it extremely telling that he testified that he found her cold, and that she paid more attention to his girlfriend than him. To me it sounds like he groped her to assert his dominance after she ignored him, which I think happens quite often with men with regard to young women (the aforementioned groping,…