They assumed she would do “independent study” and they’d fork over hundreds of thousands of dollars and she’d get a degree. These children don’t attend regular classes like the common folk.

I wish people wouldn’t blow it off as elitist bullshit. It’s real and helpful. People say you only have to put up with the other person till the kids are 18, but that’s not true. There will (maybe) be graduations and weddings and birthdays and baby showers and milestones until one of you dies. If you both want to be…

“I’m not an anti-vaxxer... I’m just not vaccinating my child.”

Ehhh... she isn’t exactly destitute.  Yes, this made her famous.  And for the most part, she has swung it in a way that has kept her in the limelight. She has a life.  A very successful one.  A lot of victims in this situation don’t fare nearly as well as she has.

I respect the fact that she has mostly maintained that she had agency in that situation and that she also made a mistake. It would have been easier to just play the victim (which she was, obviously, and he abused his power, I’m not saying he didn’t, don’t @ me), but these situations are complex and she seems to own…

Bullshit. More than anything that’s a shaming tool from other parents. They are words and just words and it’s important your kids learn how to use them, when to use them, and in which situations they are appropriate and inappropriate. Like ALL behavior. Trying to shield children from language is pointless. Teach them…

He donated large sums of money and hosted fancy fundraisers for a university I will not name here. His children didn’t get in... and, magically, he stopped donating.

I’m 95% sure it’s the latter.

In CA it is. And you would. not. believe. the number of doctors willing to write false medical exemption letters for parents who are too fucking stupid to vaccinate their children.

Technically, I “chose” to have a c-section.  The alternative was the possibility of a shattered pelvis and spending a year learning how to walk again.  A vaginal delivery would not have killed me or my child, but the alternative wasn’t exactly an ideal situation.  I chose the c section. Let’s not pretend that people…

Yeah. Fuck this. I’m not apologizing for my child’s existence to an entire plane of strangers. I’ll do my best, but welcome to leaving your house! Other people you can’t control exist! Deal with it!

Why? Narcissism.

No thank you.

I was just thinking about this.  In theory could a judge rule that he can no longer be involved in any sort of media platform?

Eye roll forever.

Well.  That’s extreme.

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I suggest listening to it rather than making an assumption based on a summary you read.  The evidence they have is more than just blaming everything on Jay.  

I remember being 100% convinced he did it after Serial.  And then I listened to Undisclosed and was 100% sure he didn’t.  Serial left a lot of facts out and I get it, she wasn’t presenting a case, she was telling someone’s story.  But Undisclosed was presenting a case.  If nothing else, you have to be convinced he did…

My father told me when I was little he avoided taking me out in public. He said he (a Native American man) would get stares like he had kidnapped me (a blonde, pale, green eyed toddler). When I was in my early 20s I once went out with my infant baby brother (who looks Latino) and a man asked me if I had adopted that…