To me, this is just more evidence that editors and the like see this kind of thing as a sort of interesting exercise. It just shows me they have no real skin in the game. These ideas are more than well-known. In fact, they’re nigh foundational in America. To present it as if it’s a curiosity, and not just a retread of…

I was a bit older than Bennett when my thirty-something boss and I began a consensual relationship. It was a “making up for lost time” sexual-shenanigans proposition for her and a “wow, this is the smartest, coolest, most interesting woman in the world” scenario for me.

Surviving sexual abuse and assault is a very personal journey. People deal with it very differently. For a long time, I wanted no one to know that I had been sexually molested by my grandfather,among others, or raped by a camp counselor. As a young man, it made me feel weak and pathetic. The few people I did tell who…

My mother’s friend was recently brutally murdered by her husband (beaten to death over a three day period, in front of her children). He was former college english professor and middle school teacher (at a competitive admission magnet school).

People coming out of the woodwork to defend him and say how great he was is…

I don’t think it’s ethical to blur professional and personal lines when there’s a power imbalance in a professional setting. Anecdotal, but as a supervisor, I zealously avoided personal connections with my employees and others who were not necessarily my direct reports, but were subordinate to me in my position. 

Nope. The more I read about this woman, the more she strikes me as unstable. And it’s not hard to dig into her past. It’s not case of going through her garbage. Rather she extremely overshares herself on multiple social media platforms. She talks about losing her virginity at age 18 to a married 34 year old man on her…

Back when this happened I ended up in ONE OF THE MOST AWKWARD AND GROSS CONVERSATIONS EVER with someone who was cautiously taking the stance that fingering “isn’t as bad as real rape”, by which of course they meant penis-in-vagina/anus. We slowly parsed this out, and I eventually got them to acknowledge that if a…

Showing up for photo opps where she clearly makes herself more important than the laborers/children/single parents she’s ostensibly there to promote:

Law students who spend their summers working as research assistants for professors do so because they need to pad their resumes but they couldn’t land real summer jobs with firms or government agencies. I wonder if she didn’t really have a good first year, or if people won’t hire her because of her father.

i get so excited when i see Ciara is working on music cuz i know i’m about to witness some amazing shit on a music video. i can watch her dance all day. i’m glad she’s still making music and i will forever dance in my car to 1,2 step.

The corollary of this is, if you know someone has cut a mutual family/friend out of their life, don’t encourage the cut out person to keep trying. That is not respecting your person’s boundaries and you’re doing it because you feel uncomfortable, not because you actually want what’s best for that person.

Thank you. As an Italian-American I’m sitting here like. “...? They run out of Italian American actors?”

Hayden will be as convincing as an Italian American as he was as anakin skywalker. Why use ‘token Italian’ supporting cast only to use leads completely devoid of the ethnicity you’re trying to portray. At least with moonstruck Cher being Armenian and Olympia Dukakis being Greek there was a cultural similarity to lean…

Ugh. Two non-Italian-American leads. Come on, is it really that hard to find people who maybe look the part? Anakin Skywalker and what’s her name both with brown hair dye is the best they can do? Also, Little Italy is basically a block long in NYC now. It’s not really a place where Italians live anymore, so taking the…

A while ago people were suggesting that China, Canada, and the EU should directly target Trump’s properties in response to US sanctions. This seems like ordinary Canadians are doing just that. It’s not like Trump cares about the farmers and manufacturers who are getting hurt by his temper tantrum on trade, but if his…

The author of the NYT piece claimed that viewing someone else’s vulval / vaginal selfie, shared by its recipient (a married man), spurred her to write the thing. She didn’t mention the first time round that the recipient was, in fact, her own husband and, prior to these edits, either he or she or both of them shared…

There is no good place to post this but I kind of need to. I lost my heart dog today, most likely to cancer. He was still kind of himself, but he had stopped eating and we couldn’t keep putting him through different ways to support him and get him to eat while he starved to death. Both my husband and I got to be home…

Please understand that all antibiotics (and all medications) have risks and benefits, but don’t imply that “if your doc is handing out cipro for a UTI, at this point they should know better.” You also need to know the local drug resistance profile to know what you should be prescribing. Where I work, E. coli (the…

While it is true that there is an established relationship between tendon rupture and fluoroquinolone (FQ) use, the incidence (the number of new cases) of tendon rupture associated with FQ use is extremely low. The incidence is estimated at 12 per 100,000. This risk is greatest during the first 90 days of those taking…

“The photographer tried to explain: “She’s a grifter,” he said. The man was confused. “So what?” he asked. The photographer tried, again, to explain, adding that she said she was a German heiress.”