Apparently a lot were also being pimped out by abusive boyfriends, etc. If you read Linda Lovelace’s autobiography Ordeal (which, fair warning, is a legitimately horrifying read) you get a good sense of the surrounding conditions quite a few of the women in porn, sex work and “other” that many of these women on the…

Uh... ok.

Ugh. Why does every dumb comment have to become “Jezebel readers”. The very fact that you are here, and there is disagreement in this thread, makes false the idea that there is some monolith of Jezebel ideology. It’s really insulting when people imply this.

No, it’s wrong in the way I thought it was, but you’ve given a more detailed explanation.

Yeah. There was some interesting research on why people stopped watching shows w/o laugh tracks, or preferred ones that did have them, and generally speaking the laugh tracks made the shows seem more “comforting” rather than more funny or anything else. The conclusion was that people were watching them for the comfort…

Americans just like talking shit about Catholics. This entire article and most of the comment section has no idea what this is about, or what Ireland is like politically. It’s infuriating.

This is utter nonsense. The gay marriage bill passed by a landslide in Ireland. Where are your “friends” from? Imaginary, never happened Ireland?

I feel like this headline is a bit disingenuous. Ireland doesn’t have “strict abortion rules”, which implies there is such a thing as legal abortion but rules apply. Abortion is illegal in Ireland and -always has been- with the 8th Amendment there simply to reinforce an already illegal practice by preventing any…

They keep the laugh track in this grade of tv for people who watch for company. It’s not to “tell you when to laugh”; it’s to make you feel less lonely.

Socialite, and the even more damning “It girl”,

Ok. Carry on!

You think Cary Grant was talentless?

You’re talking about Baudrillard’s concept of the simulacrum, which is apt, and I would probably sit here and explain but I hate everything about this article and comment section.

I’m just reading the court orders and etc and it appears she did pay? I’m a little confused by that, and wish the article expanded on how she has already paid but now needs to pay more.

The commenters asking about fillers and blowing up her double chin to mock her are a disgrace to themselves.

Were you around for the Gawker days? You seem to have a weird idea of what people on Jezebel were doing back then.

Overboard?? The only-now-we-can-look-back-and-say-the-80s-used-too-much-coke hostage/ rape fantasy movie? Such a weird choice when Soul Man was sitting right there for the taking.

Oof. Have you read the book? Have you read any Stephen King? Creepy assed fantasies?? He’s a horror genre writer ffs.

I think he’s a great writer and I have *clears throat* a Ph.D (Lit).

The whole book is basically from the perspective of the kids, and they all have a crush on Beverly. It is really not a big deal and this pearl grasping is bizarre. No adults were involved, the description isn’t graphic, they are all in a cave after fighting a fucking imaginary monster so it just really is not that…