Don’t forget the gaslighting after the fact in which he claims he never said or did things that might incite violence in spite of there literally being film of him saying these things. “I didn’t say any of these things, but if I did it was your fault.” It’s all right out of the Playbook for Abusers.

The NYT article is really lengthy and so disturbing. Rubin in particular is just so skeevy. His messy divorce proceedings are referred to as they provided evidence that he “bought” women. There is an email in which he informed one of the women he “owned” that he has the right to loan her to anyone he wants if he…

This thread is amazing.

Yeah, that was gross. He nice-guyed this whole relationship so hard in the grossest and most objectifying way possible. He somehow managed to combine the (also gross) married up/outkicked his coverage trope with awful kiss and tell locker room talk. 

I hope you’re right. It sounded really callous and exploitative. A person she loved deeply just died and she had a very public breakup with her partner right after and the response was “get back to work, Ariana!” I think it might read less that way if she hadn’t just said she needed to take a break and that she now is…

No one would question her work ethic, that’s for sure. But that quote made me uncomfortable too, it sounded like she is getting pressure to tour. If that’s what she wants to do and that is something fulfilling to her, great, but she had her tour blow up and people die, she had to leave a relationship due to addiction,…

It looks like she just announced tour dates, and touring is grueling. She wouldn’t be the first person (and especially the first artist) to sort of lose themselves in work to deal with grief, but she’s been through a lot of emotional trauma in a short time and it sounded kind of callous to me to have other people…

This. My daughter is now in high school, but a few years ago when they were learning about WWII she was very irritated by all the Nazi jokes. For context, she goes to a school that was about 50% black, 40% Latino and less than 10% white. I was not at all concerned about the Salvadoran kid who kept saying stupid…

I’m not sure I’ve ever given anyone a “he was just a kid” pass on this kind of thing before, but it seems like that’s usually something said about someone college aged doing something awful. He actually was just a kid.

7th grade was my favorite age to teach, but you are correct, 12 year olds are complete idiots at…

The biggest problem in the criminal legal system is that it relies on people. You can put any number of judges, prosecutors, and legislators in place who are women and/or who are strong advocates for legal solutions to sex crimes. At the end of the day if the accused has the right to a jury trial, the system breaks…

Same. Also taught at a Title 1 middle school where it was a huge help for the parents because you could get the khakis and polos in 3 approved colors at Burlington, Old Navy, Target and maybe most importantly at the thrift store which gets flooded with old uniforms every summer. It also stopped a lot of the posturing…

I mean you do you, and if you’ve got a way that doesn’t involve some amount of pandering for votes that gets us anywhere closer to “human rights” when the GOP has a stranglehold on the courts then I’m all ears, but traditionally yelling “fuck you” at people hasn’t been a real effective strategy for voter turnout, so…

I kind of agree with you in this case because Taylor has a huge platform with a lot of young white women. If she can speak to them in a way that gets through and shifts something or sticks, we have to think about the long game. The GOP has definitely been thinking about the long game and that’s why they’ve been…

I think this didn’t move the needle much. The women who were going to defect from the GOP already defected back in the “grab ‘em by the pussy” days. The women who stayed are totally fine with Kavanaugh and these proceedings. They get to claim some moral high road of not being a “snowflake” because they “deal” with…

Here is one of my dogs dressed as the Pope. The pupacy was never better than when Pope Lucky was in charge.

It is also a tradition that is in flux and can vary a lot school to school. My daughter’s high school has “royalty” which is a boy and girl from each grade - seniors run for king and queen, juniors for prince and princess, etc. It ends up being a lot more like student government elections, both in that some people…

Yep, the actual exchange is much worse. I guess his supporters are going to say he heard it as Rafi did “I’m not thinking” instead of “I’m not, thank you” but the transcript makes it look even more off the rails and unprovoked than it was. I would also venture that the reporters in the room with her heard it as you…

Everyone in the NFL is playing the same number of games though and going through fairly standardized training and coaching. Sure each team has its idiosyncrasies, but they all practice on maintained fields and with equal quality equipment and generally travel in the same manner and conditions. Tennis is very very…

I think Delgado is claiming Miller must have intimidated Jane Doe or paid her to sign an NDA once he got word of a reporter poking around. The hospital records would belong to Jane Doe, so if she stopped engaging with the reporter, there wouldn’t be a way for him (or Delgado) to get them. This filing is trainwrecky…

The problem is what she was reporting isn’t illegal based on the existing law. It’s creepy AF and maybe CPS could have found something to substantiate in terms of emotional abuse (I don’t know the MN definitions on that, but emotional abuse was the absolute hardest to substantiate in the 2 states I worked in). It’s…