I kind of agree - excellence trumps all. If you can sing like Stevie all your sins will be forgiven.

How in the world can they get away with this?

They’re all propped up by payola/record label money. It’s the illusion of public interest/relevance.

Yes. Or if you don’t understand the phrase, to have someone tell her to stop being a privileged asshole.

Of course there is some mental health issue at play here. I think what people are taking issue with is the tone she takes in the piece, the complete inability to admit the pain she put her mother through, and the fact that she and those who published her are celebrating her selfish/irrational decisions as courageous…

Bingo. This girl deserved to have someone read her the riot act. Just because it was a guy doesn’t mean it’s suddenly a feminist meme.

So if she’s disliked simply because she’s a woman, then how can you have any honest discussion about the numerous reasons she shouldn’t be President? At the end of the day, you can dismiss all arguments as “Well of course they’d say that, she’s a woman”. It can’t possibly be because of her handling of this email…

No hate on Angie or the work she does for women’s rights, but as a Normal currently suffering through a PhD I cannot roll my eyes hard enough at this.