Yup, I’m side eyeing a number of commentators who regularly ass lick the writers bashing Sheeran, Grande etc but are all introspective and holier than thou here.

Yeah and I can’t say I have actually forgiven her. I do still feel sour about it, and I feel entitled to feel that sour about it, since nothing was done to repair the damage done. She not only abused me directly, but she also enlisted others to abuse me. Thank goodness I had a relatively healthy family, and friends…

They were *awful* to Ke$ha, and I say this as a person who can’t stand her music or her (at the time) stage persona.

Apparently it’s okay to treat women like shit right up until the moment that it becomes illegal to do it and then suddenly the author sees the light.

Oh God, yes. YES. Perfect analogy. I actually had a bully in grade school (lucky me!) Former friend who turned on me after I found out she was stealing my stuff and I asked about it. “Wait...what is my doll doing here? Hey, is that my stuffed animal? That’s weird...those are just like my shorts.....” Her…

Self-reflection made Rich realize he was being a shitty person back in 2012 by claiming to “hate” a certain celebrity solely because it was a popular trope in the zeitgeist. Then goes on to excuse his bullshit by claiming that he only did it because he was working at Gawker. Then he further goes on to lay the rest of…

THANK YOU! I’ve been treated really sh**ty by a few family/friends, who never saw the need to give a proper apology. They would shrug their shoulders, roll their eyes, or say “Well, that’s just the way things are”. Yet, when these same hypocrites were slighted for much less offenses, they are the first ones to cry and…

Reading this was so deeply uncomfortable for me knowing he published that piece from the outset of my own reading. I will admit that at that time I was doing some research around online representations of women (a lot of which is now null and void following Trump’s inauguration but that’s another topic) so I was…

Seriously. Jezebel linked to (what they believed was) a paparazzi shot of a celebrity’s vagina in July as part of a gossip post. Like, July 2016. 9 months ago. “It was a long time ago and we didn’t know” is some seeeeerious bullshit.

Basically, the same shit they’re doing now to Ed Sheeran. For awhile it was Anne Hathaway, then it was Ariana Grande, and whatever. The writers get on a haterade about a specific celebrity and comments are full of lemmings.

He talks about 2012 like it was the way-back days of yore. As if we had all just crawled out of the cave and women just won the right to vote. IT WAS 2012! Five years ago. He’s telling us he didn’t have any qualms about posting an exploitative picture in 2012 but suddenly 24 months later in 2014 he’s achieved moral…

Yeah. I really cannot stand Rich. My only hope here is that her complimenting him on his preparedness was shade, because that is how I read it. I read this entire article making a :/ face as I was fully aware that he had published her upskirt pics and basically caused the entire Matt Lauer fiasco. Then he goes on to…

I always thought Hathaway would be fine? Well, how KIND of you, Rich, to only shit on people who you had decided were going to survive it.

this comment and kate’s made me rethink my own reaction to the interview, so thanks. i think you’re both right in that something has been elided here. i saw the post-script as a way of trying to make up for some that by acknowledging his own, gross role in objectifying and, really, dehumanizing hathaway. he comes…

I had a very similar thought— “This whole interview reads like a 50th high-school reunion, where the bully finally sits down and speaks to the bullied girl, and admits he did something kinda crappy a long time ago, but we’re cool now, right?”

I completely agree. Like I don’t want to shit all over someone who’s obviously trying, but this whole thing was very surface-level, stopping just short of the real, uncomfortable work that is required to actually grow in a situation like this. The author talks about accountability but then also spends a decent amount…

It’s similar to rape apologists. Like, “Sorry, I did this terrible, dehumanizing thing that affected you in ways I can’t even imagine, I’m sure you’ve thought about it a lot since I did it, but I’m just thinking about it for the first time right now, and realizing it was a bad thing to do. I’m so proud of how far I’ve…

We definitely were aware it was wrong in the early 2000s when it was Britney Spears or Lindsey Lohan or Paris Hilton. I don’t believe for a minute that anyone just wasn’t aware that posting pictures of someone’s exposed genitals when they haven’t agreed to having the photo taken or shared is wrong. It doesn’t take an…

That was weird. I also found it strange that the author tries to justify (at least a little bit) posting the invasive photograph in 2012 by saying that we as a culture didn’t wake up to how horrible stuff like this was until 2014. Ummmm, what? No, I’m pretty sure most of us knew well before then that it’s not OK to…

“Anne Hathaway was under no obligation to talk to me—in fact, given her feelings about Jezebel, she had good reason not to”