Respectfully, this piece is in very poor taste. I actually agree with the general premise of it: I was a public defender for the first four years of my career. The prison system is very corrupt, and I have long advocated for there to be an age cut off for people who no longer pose a threat to society to be released.

people shouldn’t be in prison for 53 years for basically anything.

You really need to stop defending these people. They didn’t just so happen to shoot someone. These were disgusting, violent, bloody murders of innocents people by cult followers. I think you don’t even know how these horrific murders occurred. They literally had blood orgies over the mutilated corpse of pregnant woman.

I remember that summer very well. It was terrifying and I don’t care how much progress she made in prison, what she did to Rosemary LaBianca should have been enough to deny her parole forever.

Making out like the families of her victims are unreasonable for wanting a spree killer to remain behind bars is a hot garbage take, even for Jezebel, a sure that lives scraping the bottom of the barrrel.

File this under the most unnecessary and unasked-for take on the Manson murders ever offered. You weren’t around; you know nothing about the feeling that took over the country and lingers still. 

I wish that people stop framing this as Jonah Hill is an immature man baby or narcissist. Jonah Hill was starting an abuse cycle. Abuse is the best the term here. While some in comments are trying to make it seem like Hill’s texts were normal, no this is the start of an abusive relationship. It really reminds me of…

This guy is exactly the type of moron I would not have seen through as a young woman. It’s the Woody Allen of Annie Hall and Manhattan all over again! They always find new ways to bullshit younger women. Ezra Miller too.

Abuse is ok until she is in hospital with 10 broken bones. Then she should have left/its all her fault.

I think you are saying he tried desperately to abuse her but she got the fuck out before bones were broken? Did you know that 9x% of physical abuse starts with controlling behavior?

Hill wasn’t communicating boundaries; he was laying down rules. Big difference.

Resolved: Hill was/remains an asshole; now cloaks under therapy-speak.

Count me firmly on Team Brady. If Hill thinks that therapy “worked” for him, I wonder what he was like before he started ... because that text does not come from a fully actualized and confident man.  It comes from a man-baby.

One of my best friends growing up (and not romantic in any way, that’s important) met and eventually married a guy in college who did not allow her to speak to or hang out with any other guys, and only let her see her girlfriends when he was around. I ran into them about a decade ago, it my first time ever meeting…

Insecurity is a real p.i.t.a. to deal with. His list of his red flags are pretty much all “hey I am so afraid of looking like a weak man, I project my insecurity loudly” which ironically is a pretty big red flag.

I even have a problem with the “he should have dated someone who doesn’t offend his sensibilities to begin with” type of response. This kind of guy doesn’t want a partner who conforms to his desires, he specifically wants someone who doesn’t so he can take her down a peg and exert control by making increasingly strict…

Still, I think (or hope) that these are growing pains of therapy becoming more widely accepted. Millenials and Gen Z may not have mastered talking about mental illness yet, but I prefer talking about it at all over the silent shame previous generations experienced.

**This**

My favorite dumb potshot from the recent craze with “therapy speak” has been the “It’s not my job to teach you” line. In almost every context I see it in, it makes the speaker look dumb, even when they’re addressing legitimately bad behavior it makes them look dumb.

Boundaries are about your behavior and what you do, not about the other person. If you don’t want your girlfriend to have swimsuit photos online, you take the action to find a girlfriend who isn’t a professional surfer (or just one who doesn’t post swimsuit shots). Your boundary doesn’t proscribe your partner’s…