I comment on XO a lot because the commenting community is fantastic. In that forum you really get to know the other regular commenters and I personally have been very supported there and I have learned a lot. The actual articles however, have devolved so badly that every single day you login you read something that…

Even Jez on it’s worst day is still so much better than xoJane on it’s best, in my opinion.

“judgmental, self-absorbed, and unreflective,” should be xoJane’s tagline.

This girl sounds incredibly bad ass, and so does her mother. And fuck the fucking misogynistic media.

i believe that melissa mccarthy couldn’t go because she was doing press for Spy? at least this is what i tell myself to fall asleep at night

It’s not about diminishing her responsibility by claiming mental illness, it’s about understanding her motives and responsibility without burning her at the stake. All this fucking hatred directed at her doesn’t do anything. Show some restraint and wait for the story to develop before eviscerating the perpetrator.

I understand that. But God is God, no? Such an analysis of the situation ignores the very big problem that God allowed the molestation to happen in the first place. It’s okay, though, because He used it to serve a purpose, right? To which I say, roundly, FUCK THAT SHIT. Could not God use his Godness to prevent the…

I’m assuming the remark about the Duggars? Though I’m going to give them a pass on that, since it’s a difficult thing to make a public statement about and doesn’t really have anything to do with Jep’s childhood.

I think God had a plan for that.

Damn....that was almost rational and thoughtful. SoClose.

Maybe she lied about the fact that the C-section was scheduled? The daughter could have reported it to the police, and the police immediately started searching for her without checking for proof from the hospital... I mean if they stopped to check that would be weirder, right?

It does seem as if some fairly crucial details were left out of this reporting.

I couldn’t help but wonder...was she even pregnant to begin with?

She kind of uses the word “feminist” with disdain though.

So Amoruso labels herself a feminist, gaining cultural acclaim and respect and free press, but once it comes inbetween her and money she is suddenly a Koch brother.

But the article says the baby’s father hadn’t heard from her either, which implies he’s probably not on the run or dead. It implies he’s cooperating and helping with the investigation, actually.
She might be dead (I really really hope not), but if she is it doesn’t seem likely the baby’s father was involved given what…

Dude, if it’s not LA or NYC, you’re a slack jawed, uneducated, uncultured yokel. DON’T YOU KNOW?

As a native Kentuckian (who once even spent a year working with George Clooney’s sister), let me politely invite you to go fuck yourself.

You can say “completed suicide” (also accepted by MH professionals) if for whatever reason you have such an objection to saying “died by suicide.” It’s part of trying to destigmatize it and, as Anna says, it is the correct terminology for MH professionals. it’s about sensitivity, much like its now appropriate to say…

This reminds me of my first experience with my fellow college student feminists. The university’s feminist center was staging a production of the Vagina Monologues (as-ya-do) and a smaller subset of feminists protested the production over a perceived bias against women of color and LGBTQA in casting the show. The…