Responding to you to bump this incisive comment up, and to add that: it may seem ridiculous to pay Snooki $35,000; it would not, however, be ridiculous to pay Toni Morrison $35,000.

It seems more than a little hypocritical a member of the political party who determined money is speech and corporations can throw as much “speech” at a politician they want is now regulating how much someone can earn from a speech.

“But we’re not with the racists.”

In addition, we should stop reading and watching Sci-fi, as Earthling have no idea what’s going on in the mind of an alien teenager. I’m going to write an angry letter, just as soon as I’m done yelling at that cloud.

EXACTLY.

Thank you. I understand people’s concerns, but some of the dialogue around the show’s issues makes no sense.

I didn’t really see it that way.

I watched the series with my partner and our takeaway was that it wasn’t gratuitous or glamorizing. The suicide and rape scenes are HARD to watch because they’re blunt, scary and traumatic. There’s no glamour in that, imo.

Actually, he didn’t just violate Title IX. K-12 educators are mandatory reporters, because we’re basically caregivers for minors. That means if a kid tells you that they’ve been assaulted, are being abused, neglected, etc you are legally required to inform your superiors and either CPS or the police, depending on the…

Adults elected a man because they were proud of the way he mimes ‘retard’ since then I’ve been having a hard time giving vocal adults the benefit of the doubt when it comes to emotional maturity. Seriously every teen moral panic piece could be rebutted by a POTUS tweet.

It may not have helped rape victims, but was it supposed too?

I wasn’t aware that suicide or depression were the sole purview of women.

I remember vaguely when I was a kid there was a brief panic that the Leonardo DiCaprio version of Romeo and Juliet would lead to a rush of teen romance suicides.

Purely anecdotal, but I heard zero kids discussing this show before the school board sent out panicky letters to parents. Now they’ve all seen it.

This is a really thoughtful, well-written piece. Young people are capable of consuming media critically, and for those of us who are adults (however much of a technicality that feels like) should be giving them the tools to do that, instead of simply hand-wringing over it.

Never, EVER forget that the most important thing you can be as a woman is beautiful.

That’s what I was thinking. Stock people everywhere are cursing Dove.

This idea sounds like a nightmare to stock in stores, assuming retailers even bother to carry the alternatively shaped bottles.

All the bottles are still white, tho.

What set me off this weekend was the picture that Diddy cropped, cutting off the Jenners who were sticking out their asses and giving the camera the finger.