I mean, if the appeal goes in her favor she could potentially get the damages dropped entirely couldn’t she? There was so much wrong with that trial, from the jury not being sequestered to certain evidence not being admitted; the court stenographer even admitted that some of the jurors fell asleep during the trial. Of…

Honestly, I kind of wonder if domestic violence is its own kind of addiction, because so many of the associated behaviors (the hiding, the promises to change, the relapses) seem so similar.

I think it’s important to remember that Depp (well his PR team at least) waged an incredibly vicious online PR campaign against Heard. So loads of bots, seemingly credible online news sources, and endless Youtube grifters have all coalesced to give the impression that Depp has long since been vindicated and is still…

I honestly think the criminal justice system is fundamentally incapable of dealing with issues like rape and sexual assault. Because it doesn’t exist to support victims, no matter how shows like SVU portray it. It exists to get convictions, to put people in prison. Meaning it exists to facilitate sexual assault, which…

I mean, they’re cops. Statistically a significant portion of them are domestic abusers as well.

How much money do you get for winning a criminal case though? It’s probably even harder to get a rapist convicted for a criminal charge and all that happens if you succeed is that a convicted rapist gets put in prison with new potential victims who can’t escape him.

The thing is, I think if you’re judging progress on sexual assault based on conviction rates you’re always going to be disappointed. The carceral system has never been the primary solution to rape culture, especially given that prisons themselves are a hotbed of sexual abuse. Cosby going to prison won’t undo what he’s…

I don’t understand how they can just come to the conclusion that at 19 she would have been old enough to recognize the racist ideology of the pageant. I know it’s not exactly the same, but I went on a Birthright trip to Israel when I was 20. I’ve realized by now just how fucked up the ideology behind these kinds of…

I really wonder how her son feels now about being used for her bullshit grifting. He’s 18 now and apparently runs a Youtube gaming channel with some friends, so he seems fairly capable of advocating for himself. I’d sure be angry if my mom spent my childhood telling the whole world that death by measles was preferable…

It’s fascinating how she basically stopped complaining about vaccines once the media grew tired of her and stopped covering her “Mother Warriors” crusade, and now we’re all just supposed to pretend the whole thing never happened. I honestly don’t think she ever really cared about vaccines; she just capitalized on her…

No, you see the vaccines permanently injured her son by making him autistic, and having an autistic kid is just the worst tragedy you could possibly face, right? Just take a look at her son’s Instagram. Or his Youtube channel. Look how vaccines ruined this boy’s life: https://www.instagram.com/evanjasher/

Their whole system is predicated on avoiding confrontation. As constitutional monarchs their job is to do absolutely nothing and hope for the best.

I kind of wonder if part of the reason Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was such a failure at the time of its release was because that people in 1993 were expecting a Poison Ivy type film instead of a harrowing, if lurid, take on the sexual abuse of a teenager. Like, the show kind of built up Laura Palmer as this…

It was a political ad and Fox hadn’t skipped his medication. Apparently it was the meds that caused the very side effects that Limbaugh accused him of exaggerating.

Yeah, it’s something that was really traumatizing but in a way I could never quite put my finger on. It took me a while to realize how shitty that behavior was because I was often the one who started the conversation; I liked talking about politics. And my mom would get upset at me for starting political arguments…

My dad never listened to Limbaugh, but I heard his voice every morning when we visited my mom’s parents. And when I was about 14 I got shouted at by one of my dad’s friends, because I criticized Limbaugh for making fun of Michael J Fox. He started yelling at me that he had seen Michael J Fox speak and he absolutely…

Yeah, I don’t know; when I was 19 I definitely knew swastikas were a sign of fascism, but then maybe growing up as a child star conditioned her to ignore warning signs. I think she probably assumed that because he was nice to her at first and she was Jewish, he couldn’t possibly be anti-semitic. I’m sure HP…

I guess in Wood’s defense, she was a teenager when she met Manson, although that comes perilously close to the “just a kid” justification that racist white teenagers are frequently granted. But she probably thought the tattoos were a sign of his edginess and willingness to flout norms and only later came to realize…

Sound of Music is one of those movies that I kind of suspect is superior to the source material. Like, it’s an extremely cheesy and weird concept for a musical, suddenly switching halfway from a romance to a story about escaping the Nazis. But the film works because Robert Wise is such a good director (and considering…

I guess it is pretty catchy. His cover of Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) is super cringe inducing though. I hate covers that just slow down the original song to make the lyrics seem edgier.