And how can you simultaneously assert that hand-holding and hugs are forbidden outside of marriage, but playing with your sleeping sister’s vagina is normal?

Who cares though? Two consenting adults had sex. Big fucking deal. It’s none of their employers’ or co-workers’ business. That’s a dumb reason to fire anyone. I was totally on board with Shonda firing Isaiah Washington for being a homophobic ass and Heigl for being an unprofessional jerk but firing Dempsey for…

How was he in the wrong? His career was totally more important. Derek is presented at this wunderkind renowned the world over for his neurosurgery skills. He’s won awards, people fly in just to have him consult, was on the verge of curing Alzheimers (until Meredith fucked it up, BTW). His career is totally more…

Meh. The show’s sucked since Clooney left.

This whole thing is really shocking but one question puzzles me and I can’t quite wrap my head around it- Grey’s Anatomy is still on the air?

I have worked with all of those people and can concur, while also adding: Ellen Pompeo is a fucking crazy woman on a scale unknown and unappreciated by the media. If she decided to get pissed about something, everybody stand back. Shonda is an amazing woman who is NOT crazy, but I would believe if she was already…

It’s still pretty funny to imagine a person getting fired from Grey’s for hooking up with an intern.

Finally the reason Denton said we need burners has arrived.

God how I wish that married intern was me....

I created this account, so I could comment anonymously. If this ever gets tied back to me, I would be in serious trouble. In any case, the ‘rumor’ is absolutely true. He had an affair with a MARRIED intern on set. They made no effort to hide anything, and the intern flaunted it in the face of the other interns/staff.…

I have a friend who works for one of the...um...seamier UK publications who would confirm that. I’m not sure what the situation is with the American tabloids, but over on this side of the Atlantic, the defamation laws are so tight that fact-checkers are almost always deployed for salacious gossip stories. The stories…

Sometimes tabloids are not that far off from the truth. Not everything on them is made up fanfic. When it comes to affairs, the crew always talks. That’s what happened with Brangelina, and Johnny Depp and Amber Heard.

I totally agree that she doesn’t seem like a typical Toddlers & Tiaras mom. Although this gave me pause:

This sounds... surprisingly reasonable and not exploitive at all. I mean, the kid seems to have fun with it, the mother isn’t forcing her or going full on stage mom and they’re putting her earnings into an account for college. I mean, I almost feel bad for being pleasantly surprised.

Just want to echo: great piece. More like this please. Maybe fewer 500 Days of Kristin and more like this?

Because his whole point was to spread the practice with the zeal of a missionary. He spent time on the road going from asylum to asylum to preach the wonders of lobotomies. Look it up, it’s all out there. Don’t just rely on one story and one writer’s perspective.

Lobotomizing someone is legit horrible but I think it speaks to the issues this country has had with mental health since the beginning of time. My mom is a special education teacher and there are just some kids... there’s nothing you can do for them and the current system is not set-up in a way that can really handle…

I think Freeman’s presence is more like the early gynecological experiments done on American slave women. You need to understand that before scientific testing on animals became widespread, the test subjects were unwilling or uninformed black citizens of the United States.

Wonderfully written article, Alison. I love pieces like this that shine a light on a matter that most of us have never heard of.

The fact that the older sister is asking for that gives her the most legitimacy, to my mind.