This was a little bit surprising only because I thought Mario Batali was gay. I even thought he had a husband. But turns out that he has a wife and two kids with her. Weird.

I’m sorry, but those words sound a little empty coming from a super model. I do think that she’s trying to be genuine, but I don’t really think that not taking her clothes off for an empty cause is really going to do much for anyone else. That’s fine. She should only do what she wants, but she thinks that is going to…

You jumped in here first to scream at everyone and then got mad that Jezebel didn’t provide the context you wanted? That’s... huh. Okay. Onus was kind of on you to get the full picture before sweeping in to educate everyone with bolded text.

I so agree. I just don’t consider spying on a partner who you think is cheating on you abuse. At all. It sounds like a shitty, toxic relationship with two people who are screwed up. But not abusive.

Because you were too busy typing to read anything.

You’re right, I was way off yesterday. There’s a lot of background info I didn’t know. What she did was completely justified and this guy is a piece of shit.

So, I wasn’t aware of any of the choking, or the looking at her phone while she was asleep, or any of the shitbaggery by him that precipitated her actions. I truly did not know that was in response to abuse on his part.

I live in a single party consent state and the cameras are all in public areas of the house. There are glass breaking detectors that listen at the windows but they don’t record. My SO’s employer made such a system a condition of his working remotely.

He lied about having an STD? Man, as I read further into the comments, it’s almost like I’m getting a much better picture than the original article. You guys are doing the writer’s work here!

That’s inaccurate... the co-defendents say that in the process of spying on him with the spyware, she also saw their email exchanges with him (I think they were both exes). Doesn’t make it OK, but it’s not nearly as crazy as having put software on their computers as well.

The Girls? Yeah it was like Mary Gaitskill light, without any of the specificity to make the characters feel real. Also it didn’t hold up after listening to the You Must Remember this Manson focused season a few months before reading it. (Also I don’t want to read any variation or factual retelling of the Manson story…

So my security system with cameras and motion sensors in the living room/family room/dining room and on exterior windows is illegal? I don’t think so.

Practically speaking, you do not. Sucks but true. You’re allowed to log/surveille your own space.

She owned the computer. She put spyware on it. She removed it. She sold the computer.

Have you read the complaints? From what I can understand, neither of the two women are asserting she stole work from them for her book, and as for her ex’s claims, none of the “examples” he provides are substantial enough to warrant accusations of plagiarism....he’s claiming copyright infringement on passages that he…

Sorry, but I’m tired of this “she’s an abuser” take. I’m tired of women in this site claiming that they are ready to accept that victims are not perfect, but only as far as those victims react in a way you recognize—freezing, negotiating, fighting back. If they do something wrong after the abuse, you go after them…

F. Scott and Zelda were a shitshow.

And their “borrowing” and “collaboration” with their partners gets swept under the rug. Check out F Scott Fitzgerald’s plagiarism of his wife (Zelda’s) diaries.

Artists and writers who are not white men continually have to fight back against a public obsession with their personal lives, a desire to link those lives with their work as a way of diminishing their talent.