I’m just gonna call her Sarah Hannah Karen.

I actually said that Keira was critiquing the culture by using projection as a writing choice, so I don’t understand why you’re arguing with me at all.

I mean, it’s not just my singular interpretation. There are multiple comments which echo mine, including those within this thread. And I’ve already made patently clear that I did not interpret Keira’s statement as an attack on Kate, so I’m unsure why you keep returning to that notion.

They’re like a remake of Beaches because they would’ve shot scenes together as kids in Season 1 only to be separated for Seasons 2-6 (I know they hung out during off season but just go with the analogy) and reunited at last as young women in Season 7. So now they’re in the tenement apartment, and they’re smoking weed…

Ah, got it. That correction does bring things down a notch, but the veneer of projection nevertheless stands. If the goal of her missive was empathy or solidarity, there are more graceful and effective ways that could’ve been communicated.

That doesn’t make it any less of a projection. Keira’s unique difficulties with childbirth —the split open body, the blood, shit, and vomit— are her own story to tell, not to impose on someone else who may have a very different story of her own.

Agreed. I think that Keira may have been well-intentioned, but she was still projecting her own personal narrative onto Kate in a way that felt uncomfortable.

I agree with your take on Kim at Jimmy’s appeal hearing. Watching her face drop out in the lobby instantly recalled for me the scene in Quiz Show when Herbert Stempel’s wife storms off after realizing that he was also part of the rigging scheme and had received the answers in advance. Pleading his case to her, he…

Jodie Foster’s older sister served as a body double in all the violent and suggestive scenes, so Taxi Driver’s a safe watch. 

There’s a big difference between using one’s might to block someone’s career and simply choosing not to work with someone. No one is under any moral obligation to hire an asshole who’s openly demonstrated how bad they are at playing with others.

There was this sexy AF guy I met through my college internship who was the first guy for whom I’d ever made the first move and asked him out myself. He agreed even more enthusiastically than I’d hoped for and, after a phone chats, we planned to meet up for drinks, dinner, and a downtown stroll.

I went through something like that with a significant other who went missing and was later presumed dead, though never found. The case attracted a decent amount of attention which, of course, led to a lot of uniformed commentary, particularly in regard to the search and rescue efforts. An infuriating number of people…

I’ve never understood Vanderpump’s stranglehold as RHOBH’s fan favorite. She’s super manipulative and basically just a Regina George with a hoity accent.

It was kind of a frustrating choice to throw an interloper into the mix immediately after putting the Core 4 together before even getting a chance to see how their Earth-bound selves interact. 

It wasn’t a few assholes who ruined it for everybody unless you’re talking about the owners who chose to implement Kinja. Gawker Media has had hierarchal commenting since its inception. (Although a briefly used interim non-hierarchal commenting system did have rape porn trolls.) The original, pre-Kinja system of ungrey…

I do miss the Anna North era dirtbags which were often more a sardonic deconstruction of gossip mag culture than an earnest indulgence.

I don’t know if that’s all that messed up or farfetched. At one point, I had up to 8 mutual friends from the States who were all, for various reasons, living in Berlin at the same time.

You’re absolutely right. I’ve been masquerading as a New York based black woman in the Gawker Media comment sections for years and years just for the opportunity to one day win an argument with you. I even keep a black woman on call just to send her to Groupthink meetups in my place.

One again, I’m not judging her for how long she’s had her money. I’m judging her —and worrying about— what she’s doing with it.

It’s well established that people who are new to money are often make unsound financial decisions, especially when it arrives in a sudden windfall. Somewhere between 33-70% of lottery winners go broke or declare bankruptcy within five years. Similar principles apply to athletes and celebrities as well.