Yes. It’s her defining feature, and she emphasized it in all of her self portraits.

Actually, they forced a young girl to have her very first kiss on camera BECAUSE of her strong objections and her discomfort with it. They actually told her that they’d just been joking about her having to do an unscripted kiss, but because she reacted so negatively to the idea that they therefore HAD to do it,…

Let’s not forget that they forced a young girl to have her very first kiss on camera despite her strong objections and her discomfort with it. So the news that they are dicks to other women wouldn’t exactly knock me down with a feather.

Yeah...I am deeply familiar with your dilemma. I think momofpeanut is right. Don’t bring in her past relationship(s), or yours, or your “vibes,” stick to the objectively observable stuff. Like, diminishing a partner in the presence of others is a classic tool of abuse, and abuse is known to escalate both as time…

When my daughter started dating, I always told her, “If someone gives you a creepy vibe, even a little bit...if the situation gives you a feeling of danger, even a little bit...even if there’s nothing overt to “justify” those feelings...just get out of there. You don’t have to explain yourself or apologize for wanting…

My two cents: stay away from vibes, stay away from your own past relationship (they give her reason to dismiss you.)

As someone in a similar situation with a friend who’s dating a guy that I don’t think is much of an improvement over her shitty ex-husband, do I tell her how I feel about this guy just based off of bad vibes (he kept mocking her intelligence the entire time we were playing Cards Against Humanity, even though shes…

When I confessed my sexual harassment story to a guy I used to work with, his response was “I always felt something was off about that guy and I could never figure out what it was. I figured I was being crazy, turned out he was sexually harassing a bunch of women in the office.” Sometimes you get a vibe and you don’t…

I’m generally pretty eyerolly about karma and energy and that kind of shit, but this is absolutely relatable to me. It’s like meeting a friend’s new boyfriend, feeling vaguely disquieted but having absolutely no specific reason to speak ill of him...and then come to find out years later that he was an abusive,…

Moules frites are delicious and the beer is lovely, too. I could happily sink into a life of genteel decrepitide in Bruges.

Feature, not a bug.

If anyone needs me, I will be in Belgium.

Speaking as someone who has had to fix many gate arms, it looks like they’re attempting to fix that gate arm.

Which reminds me of an American tourist in London, who got a warning from police officers for his use of racial insults to a member of staff at a fast food restaurant. Apparently he mistakenly believed that the First Amendment still applies outside of the USA. He was quite vocal about his First Amendment rights, until…

3 coppers admiring a large shaft?

I love this clip! She is my kind of demented and I will adore her forever for it.

I see we have the white saviour in our midst.

I’m always rubbed the wrong way by people who are going to go do something that the locals obviously know how to do. Like, I’m pretty sure that people in dry areas of Africa know how to dig wells. They’ve been doing it for thousands of years. It seems like a band-aid at best to send over people from developed…

And haven’t there been a ton of studies showing that Americans love to go build a school somewhere, but are less in love with like... providing books and experienced teachers and stuff?

Worked at charities and nonprofits. Volunteered on weekends. Worked in politics and government and issue campaigns. Often at low pay. Registered people to vote in poor neighborhoods. Traveled to Latin America to maternal child health programs and school meal operations. Protected women from protestors at abortion…