This harassment of Grande is hitting me very hard due to a personal parallel. I left a shitty relationship of 5 years due to the substance abuse issues and chronic unemployment of my partner. I worked 2 jobs to support us, he refused to get help, wouldn’t apply to jobs that were “beneath” him (or would apply, get an…

Holy shit...

“It wasn’t her fault, that being said, I’m still going to insinuate blame." 

Don’t be That Guy.

Oh fuck that. There is no statute of limitation on when someone can start a new relationship or get engaged after ending a prior relationship.

I don’t know why anyone would blame Ariana for Mac Miller’s death, but I have sense.  People with substance abuse problems need to make the decision to stop for themselves and do the work to maintain their sobriety.  Plus according to the gossip sites his addiction was one of the reasons they broke up in the first…

It’s a Rorschach Test.

The people who like to accuse women of being a ball and chain, of leaving men whipped, of being ball-busters...are usually the same ones who in the same breath will accuse women of not doing enough to care for or protect men. Same misogyny, different applications. 

Definitely on Team Eat All the Cheese Until It’s Gone over here. RIP any wedge of Humboldt Fog in my path.

Agreed. And I’m sure Anne ate at MOST a tablespoon of cheese spread on 3 crackers. I’m much more of a Costco-sized-wheel-of-cheese-in-one-sitting girl myself.

Except for the wine, this sounds like a fucking nightmare.

“I’m sorry you’re feeling so isolated, my dear,”

I’ve been following this story for a while because I don’t understand how men in Hollywood can fully support pedophiles, but ice the women for speaking out against said pedophiles. I read Brown’s response and thought it came across spitefull and condescending.

Gawker alum Richard Lawson just gave it a rave in Vanity Fair:

what’s up with the “my dear”? seems a bit patronizing

Coincidentally, I started binge re-watching the entire Parts Unknown series yesterday and it made me very emotional, especially when he revisited Beirut as it is very close to home for me, what with half my family fleeing religious persecution in Lebanon and Syria. Not that what they endured is anywhere remotely near…

People who grew up with good families seem to struggle with this so much, they literally cannot fathom the idea that one’s parent (particularly the mother) could truly be a bad or toxic person.

Yeah, I take it as someone who is used to how his interactions with his mother play out, and how society has informed us we ‘have to’ act with our family.

Good on her.

I’m surprised by the second letter; I expected the writer to say the opposite (“my wife wants to help her shitty mother, I wish she wouldn’t be manipulated by her”). This dude should be grateful as hell that his wife is strong enough to get out of an abusive situation like that (especially one with as much guilt…