OK. This handwriting. This mocking parent. Let’s just, for the moment, assume he doesn’t have a learning disability.

Nevertheless, she persisted.

“I don’t understand how trauma processing or grooming works”
It’s a lot quicker if you just type that, but hey, well done on having one liar make all survivors liars in your eyes.

Especially with the 00's lawsuits and allegations, I have been getting more and more angry each time man in the mirror comes on.

Jackson had a ton of evidence stacked against. But he’s rich and popular and bought his way out. 

...and yet police carted out boxes of porn:

Bruh...

Watched most of the doc last night and it’s pretty chilling. I have complicated feelings about it, but I believe these victims’ stories. More to your point, this morning I remembered the Chappelle’s Show skit that, especially in retrospect, highlighted (intentionally, I think) the general public’s willful ignorance/…

The issue of MJ and the current movement of calling out abusers is so difficult, personally. Young people do not understand how impactful Michael was to us old folks and how his music transcends time.

Same. Also, we had childhood sexual abuse in my family. (Not my predator, the predator of my aunts and a cousin.) The aunts, to this very day, speak in glowing terms about their father, who raped them as children. The cousin, when she spoke out, was essentially turned into persona non grata. It wasn’t any of their…

I want to meet these people who seem to believe, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, that public notoriety and astronomical amounts of money can’t influence a “sophisticated jury.” I want to know anyone in any community, regardless how strong their ties are to Michael Jackson, who is sending their child to…

You’re spot on about Michael’s universality. I wasn’t an R.Kelly fan, so it was easier for me to believe the women and girls who came forward. But Michael...I rollerskated to the Jackson 5. I had Thriller on vinyl as a kid. I thought “Black or White” was really ground breaking. And then the weirdness started getting…

It is great that the Smith family is helping the people of Flint, but man I am so tired of seeing celebrities and billionaires having to step up and do the government’s job. 

I wish we had campaigns like this 20 years ago when I had my son. I was a young mom who was ashamed of my body and its stretch marks. I hid in matronly bathing suits and bermuda shorts no matter how thin I was because I thought no one wanted to see my mom body. I have more body confidence at 40 than I ever had at 25.…

I feel the same way about middle-aged fashion. I clicked on the L.L. Bean megasale link that Jezebel was tempting me with a few weeks ago and I tried to resist this total mom sweater but I could not. I actually returned it for a bigger, boxier size.  I surrender to comfort.  It is freedom.

This reminds me of a photo project someone did of taking photos of mothers very soon after birth. Let me see if I can go find it:

While I understand your point and agree that a deeper systemic change is needed rather than ‘normalising, brutally honest’ photos to advertise nappies or whatever, I am not ashamed to say that I saw these photos today and felt validated. I’m two years past ‘post-birth’ and as someone who was slim prior to my baby, it…

I just want this trend of everyone putting pictures of their naked bodies everywhere to stop. You’re never going to fix comparison and self-esteem issues by putting more things to compare people to out there. For every skinny girl, there’s an average girl going “ugh I’m ugly.” For every average girl, there’s a fat…

I CAN’T BELIEVE I left off my namesake movie Clueless, which to me is one of the most amazingly well written screenplays of all time. Tossing Clueless in there as my number one of five, and moving the rotation three of the top five into my top ten. I am so embarrassed!! I was actually a writing major at Tisch so also…

I can’t believe someone mentioned this as a favorite! You won’t believe this, but I was a Muppeteer in that movie! Behold: