Yeah, that was confusing, clickbait bullshit. The place we stayed at was the nicest resort I’ve ever been to and I’m sure where they stayed was even fancier.

As someone who stayed in one of those $1000 a night tents on a once-in-a-lifetime trip, they are definitely more like houses than tents and they do come with bathrooms, but the point of being out there is the game drives which last for hours and there’s definitely no bathroom in the bush. I was very concerned about…

The whole story is weird. His ex was from Zimbabwe. They spent a lot of time in Southern Africa together. The fact that women pee outside shouldn’t be shocking to him. Is it because MM is America it was shocking? Harry comes across as kind of dumb in a lot of the excerpts from this book.  

Sen. Harris is super competent

Every VP in the history of ever was running for president. Biden has been running for president since the goddamn 80s and throughout the Obama presidency. Preparation and ambition are to be rewarded as long as they are accompanied by testicles.

Just ask Mitch McConnell. Why does that guy always look like death warmed over?

Aw shucks *blushing* Right back at ya. One of my pals did a lot of public defending with young offenders, and it seemed to be a lot of social work and advocacy. She works for the prosecuter’s office now, and less with youth, but it still sounds like a lot of problem solving.

“...mothers are living out their dreams through their daughters, the same way sports dads do with their sons.”

I’m a teacher. Abuse causes all kinds of learning problems too, with kids showing the symptoms of ADD or a learning disability, even if they don’t actually have them. One of my friends has found if she can’t find any other reason for why a child is grade levels behind, when she combs through their school record, she…

It infuriated me hearing about how Henry Thomas’ mom was labeled as difficult because she was doing her job as a mother and trying to protect her son from the abuses of the industry and then he was labeled as difficult as well.

A journalist here in Canada made a short documentary about child abuse in sport. When she interviewed kids at the Canada Games (a competition of mostly under-20s) pretty much every girl she spoke to had either been sexually abused by a adult related to her sport, or knew someone who had. Any time there’s something…

This is unfortunately not a phenomenon unique to Hollywood. The powerful prey on the vulnerable in every industry- sports, media, politics, business- and it just happens over and over because there so many people who are complicit.

I absolutely agree people are afraid of speaking up due to retaliation or fear of being exposed. It’s the Hollywood career kiss of death to be labeled as difficult to work with. The old Hollywood power hierarchy and way of doing things is so archaic and in need of a complete revamp. 

I really wanted to audition for the Mickey Mouse club in the 90s and mom said she didn’t want to become a stage mom like Drew Barrymore’s or Brooke Shields, I immediately went to the video store and rented all their movies and then I wanted to be stars like them. Then I made my mom the feminist suffered when I entered…

Exactly.

Thanks, it’s a ongoing journey of healing, and I appreciate your words :)

Two cans of beans for breakfast? That’s going to be a lot of methane, and too much fiber, 21 grams of fiber for one can of black beans. 42 grams of fiber, at once? That’s trouble.

It sounds morbid but I’m curious as to whether these industries attract natural predators because they know power and money are impenetrable shields or if it’s that absolute power corrupts absolutely? or both

True. :(

Then couldn’t one argue that every single penny ever used to buy Harry something in his 35 years of privileged luxury is from stolen money. Money that bought both of them clothes, jewels, cars. The millions of pounds in his back account isn’t earned money. The money they take from his father’s “private” reserve is…