So? It’s right out of the racist white savior playbook. Adopt one of the “inferior races” (because they don’t know how to raise their own children properly) and completely disconnect them from their background to create obedient little zombies while at the same time get praise for “saving” them.

This is dumb, you literally said that the trope is that cheerleaders are killed as retribution for being mean and shitty and you also acknowledge that this character was not like that at all.

It’s such a stupid talking point. Arm the teachers, really? So where are they going to keep the gun? On their person at all time? A shooter can still come in and shoot a teacher before they even draw. Should they be brandishing a gun at all times just in case? What if some kids break into the desk where the gun is…

Yeah I think you hit the nail on the head here. The social ties are stronger than anything else and no one wants to blow up their own social life over something that has nothing to do with them. We’re from a smallish town too but I am lucky that I’ve moved around so much and those old ties are not important in my life…

That’s an interesting point. I was recently added to a group chat of old high school art friends to plan a reunion type of get together this summer. One of the dudes in this chat was someone who unbeknownst to me had apparently had a massive crush on me in school. A few years after high school we met up for a friendly…

I smile and laugh when I am anxious. I guess I should try to stay out of courtrooms.

In the 18th century and until about 1880, abortions were allowed under common law and widely practiced. They were illegal only after “quickening,” the highly subjective term used to describe when pregnant women could feel the fetus moving according to historian Leslie Reagan, whose 1996 book on abortion history in the…

Yes! I actually felt really bad for him, all that abuse heaped on him by Carson. Not cool.

Yeah we should go back to the very good methods used in ancient Egypt like....putting cow dung in your vagina. It’s NATURAL!

Faith in the Jez community restored. Thanks guys. I have been listening to the Maintenance Phase podcast a lot lately and it is SO GOOD at interrogating lots of myths about weight, diets and other health fads. I have learned so much about all this stuff and I highly recommend it to everyone interested in these issues.

They dismissed my comment also. Here is what I wrote:

Thank YOU!

Our whole society is fat phobic. Sorry you hate yourself so much. Do better.

ugh

Thank you for letting me know. It was really upsetting to see that but yeah I guess it makes sense. How did they ever get out of the grays?

Really? The top comment here is disgusting and no one is jumping in to correct this fat phobic garbage? What the heck happened to this community? I miss the 2012 Jezebel so much, I learned so much from commenters here about so many things and I am so sad to see what a withered husk of itself this place has become.…

Do you also cringe when you watch strongmen competitions or Olympic weight lifters or is your anti fat bias showing just a little bit here?

The evidence is unclear about obesity in and of itself as a factor in these outcomes. The vast majority of people with overweight have destroyed their metabolisms through years of yo yo and crash dieting beginning frequently in early adolescence and childhood due to societal pressure to be thin. Many of these people…

I got really into Hollywood history and learning about the sad and tragic lives of stars that were just used and discarded and blamed for the problems they developed due to this treatment really made me see all this stuff in a completely different light.

I think being an idiot significantly increases your chances at massive success in the music and film industries. Most sensible people realize the challenges that come with this kind of fame: the potential for exploitation, the mental health toll etc. and shy away from it or protect their kids from it. The super…