You’re doing better than I...I was thinking Leslie Jones!

I wanted that show to be SSOOOOOOO good. I love Miranda, which it’s based on. Mayim made a mistake casting herself in the lead. Miranda had such a dry, self-deprecating humor. Sort of like a woman version of Eeyore. And Mayim just isn’t that. She’s too chipper and bouncy. If she’d have played it like she played Amy…

Thank you for the pronunciation for Thandiwe, something that should be included in a story about somebody wanting their name said correctly!

Ike Turner, the rock and roll pioneer who she says abused her horrifically

I have no issues with this since Ms. Turner herself agreed to do this and apparently fully participated. On the other hand, I’d also have no issues if she decided she no longer wants to perform or appear in public. That’s her right, and ye gods know how much she has already given of herself. I can’t stand it when…

As a gay dude. A cloned society is kinda what I am into. Stop making me miss Jessica Walter.

I really fucking hate this shit. I don’t have time to try to game the system. I wish we weren’t treating vaccinations like concert tickets or video game consoles where you have to wait in lines or have connections.

It does, but we don’t know what happened to her or how it affected her. Writing styles can be affectations or a way of keeping your distance from a trauma, or neither.

So your main takeaway from her post is that she writes funny, not that there was some (at the least) creepy shit going on that they had to make a rule like that in the first place? She was like 14 years old.

The person who got you your groceries had to put themselves at risk. So when they go home after going in and out of buildings for extended periods of time, and still contract COVID-19, are you going to say the same thing to them? 

Would I tell them “I told you so,”?  No.  Would I tell all my other friends eating in restaurants I know someone who got sick doing that? Yes. 

For me, the worst part was when she felt guilty about Ray being fired because she still felt that if she’d said something, things might have been different, despite overwhelming evidence that nothing of the kind would have happened. 

I would add that I come across most unhinged when I’m being subject to abusive and bizarre treatment. It makes you feel insane and you act as such.

When a parent is legally, financially, and verbally abusing your partner, you don’t need to speak up publicly? Just keep it to yourself? That’s fucking twisted as hell. That’s exactly how abusers retain power and continue their abuse.

What really makes good treatments more stigmatized and hard to access is the existence of those residential ‘treatment’ programs that are allowed to operate without oversight or protection of the rights of the children they monetize.

That’s the main issue here, right? That there is a dangerous lack of regulation and accountability? A safely, ethically run facility is probably beneficial for many kids and people like Veit above did have their lives turned around for the better. But do parents really know that the facility they’re sending their kid…

And until something changes, the “sources” and “insiders” will continue to make their voices heard. I wish I could say the same for Spears.

He probably makes money either directly from shilling or from part ownership of some sort. Dude is a total charlatan. 

It’s like the White leadership at so many of these organizations, companies, and institutions are like, “What, we have to stop being so bigoted? Fine. We’ll try, but so badly that you’ll stop asking about it.”

This is just like when The Atlantic decided to hire (for about a week) a writer who had opined that women who have abortions should be hanged, in the name of “diversity of thought”.