I think already I’ve made it clear in multiple comments that I don’t think it’s okay to pressure your spouse into having more children if they don’t want them.

If I want to watch two female sides of the same coin fight each other, this scene is far more entertaining.

Landmark Forum is a pyramid scheme cult that practices coercive and abusive tactics and every graduate I’ve ever known is completely intolerable. Citing them as a reason we should put stock in her point of view is a great way to make sure your opinion is dead on arrival.

“Expressed concerns about birthing more children” is Jasmine’s phrasing. I doubt it was Kim’s. But even if they’re just talking about a surrogate, someone would be “birthing more children.” But I agree that there’s still a lot of emotional and physical considerations with surrogacy, and that Kanye should respect Kim’s…

The only thing wrong with NYC tap water is the rust buildup in the old pipes. Otherwise, it’s the finest tap water in all the land and the exact reason for the superiority of our pizza and bagels.

Yeah, black people aren’t a monolith and I never said we were. Is that your whole point?

Kim apparently has three nannies, but there’s plenty to suggest that she’s an involved loving mother. She’s a working parent of means with a frequently absent husband and three children under age 5. I wouldn’t begrudge her help. And whatever labor she is putting in, I’d feel almost certain that Kanye’s putting forth…

People tend to try to empathize and remember the good times when someone dies. In Michael Jackson’s later years, the black community distanced themselves and let him be a punchline. In death, he was immediately embraced again and regarded as a casualty of white supremacist culture.

The lengths to which he’s gone to screw with her are astounding to me. Setting up residence in a conservative state that recognizes embryo’s personhood, getting a new drivers license —these things take time and research and effort and planning and hassle. I can’t imagine devoting that much energy to making someone…

I can totally picture Kanye believing that surrogacy is an easy process, like going to the baby store drive-thru window or something, with no other consideration of the impact to Kim or even his other kids. Plus, he’s not bound by the financial constrictions that would prevent the average person from repeating this…

Kwiverfull!

But is he pestering her to get pregnant again or simply for more children? It’s hard to tell from context here. He might just be suggesting they continue with surrogacy. (He seems too narcissistic to consider adoption.) That can still be problematic in some ways, especially since he doesn’t strike me as a particularly…

I wonder if that was their dynamic from the beginning. There’s a Dinner for Five episode in which, despite their respective engagement (to J Lo) and marriage (to Scott Foley) at the time, she gazes at him lovestruck and adoringly throughout even though nothing he says merits it. She even leaps to his defense by…

This is timely as I’ve just today been introduced to advertising for the spanking new “frontless bra.”

There’s a clip that made the rounds of him talking down to a red carpet reporter who deigned to ask him a question about how meaningless the entire event that he’d chosen to attend was. It got circulated as an example of iconoclastic profundity, but to me, he just came off like a combative dick who didn’t know how to…

Did you hear about this?

It’s not astrophysics but Kim’s gotten involved with political activism and social causes in the US and Armenia but still gets shit on for not staying in her lane.

I can’t disagree with any of that. The kernels were definitely there, for sure. Kris and the LA trophy wife culture they grew up in is a lot to blame, but I think that the scrutiny that comes with fame served to exacerbate what already existed, and the vitriol they attract allows people to feel somehow justified in…

We’ll disagree then, because justifying your misogyny by citing their misogyny seems like the height of feminist hypocrisy. Break the circle.

A lot of it, yes, and I’d say that criticism is totally valid. They are vapid AF.