The idea that an abused child is irreparably “not okay” forevermore isn’t true or helpful.

Aw. Poor John Kasich.

If you had asked me yesterday, “DT, do you think you’ll admire Norman Mailer less tomorrow than you do today?” I would have said no, as it would have seemed unlikely my opinion of him could be lowered.

scientific trappings scientific trappings scientific trappings COMPLETELY SUBJECTIVE INTERPRETIVE LEAP scientific-sounding conclusion

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Context is needed for this one. I was 22, I had moved to an expensive city more than a year ago, and I could not find a permanent job in my field. I’d been temping occasionally (assignments were few and brief), eating through my savings and sinking further and further into depression as one prospect after another…

International Toilet Day is a poop joke, yes, but it’s a poop joke that is intended to remind us of the reality that unequal access to clean water is lethal.

It’s hard to read any headline beginning “Former Employees” today without seeing it as Gawker’s self-commentary.

Any word from Vargas-Cooper on where she’s headed, or is it too soon?

These excerpts actually remind me of the boldness and originality Greer had as a young woman, before she devolved the nutty crank she’s been for the past decade or so.

You can write anything you want on the world wide web, and anyone with a computer and a telephone line will be able to read it!

Yeah, I’m not really seeing a side to root for in this grossness.

I love how that article is all like “He wrote it to perform with his wife!” like this translates to “could not be rapey!”

Because in the middle class, terrified of what lies below and envious of what dangles above, small gradations of social status have a lot of weight, so competition is non-stop.

That’s an obvious case of sexual assault. But I don’t know that a teacher-student dynamic has much to do with it — although we can all agree that teachers are, as a group, a bunch of clumsily violent drunks, few have the power to ruin their students’ careers.

Just to clarify, your statement “Yes, because she slept with a student” reads as an answer to the question “Is this professor a rapist?”

So much this. Somehow in my mind, Pinkerton never stopped being their recent disappointing follow-up.

Did the Orthodox Jewish boy have to repeat a whole bunch of grades since Joanna lost her virginity to him, and is that why he’s still just an orthodox Jewish high schooler, or did Joanna give up her pearl of great price to him sometime in the last four years? Either way, I think the lad would be wise to prioritize…

The choice to include a stock image of a fretful affluent-looking couple for this article was a little odd.