I think what makes it manipulative is that he started a relationship with someone who was a professional surfer, who’s social media history and presence including oodles of this content that he wanted her to get rid of, and he appears to have not mentioned that beforehand only bringing up during the relationship. If…

Then don’t click on links where celebrities talk about their sex lives. Self-control is the first step toward self-respect.

Ripping newborns and infants away from their parents?

you can be single and not live alone. there’s other options for co-habitation besides a romantic partner.

What’s childish is trying to provoke a 19 year old climate activist with “LOOK AT MY CARS”. Anyway, her response doesn’t have to be clever or high art, he’s got incredible amounts of tiny dick energy and pointing it out is the appropriate response every time. He’s not worth the effort and craftsmanship of a truly sick…

ok Andrew

The writers said Markle should be paraded through the streets naked while people throw shit at her?

He also threw in some great comments about how they (his viewers) needed to be scared because all teachers were single women and so they were indoctrinating the children with their liberal wanton lady ways. He’s a real buttplug.

What I don’t understand is the NFL is a billion dollar industry and not every team has cheerleaders so paying for everything mentioned here isn’t going to affect profits very much.

I will say that while he is indeed a complete joke, Levine is a very rich, successful man a full 20 years older than Stroh. So while manipulated may not be the right word, there is a vast vast power imbalance happening here. And I do feel for her on that. 

I honestly think it’s worse than that. People react to him as “too far” but then the less explicitly insidious stuff is completely normalised because they don’t want to talk about that.

I’ll do you one better, why get married at all?  

I realize this is only a side comment in the story, but she’s right - bad sex is better than a bad haircut.  Bad sex eventually ends, and if you’re lucky your partner can learn.  A bad haircut might last for months.

Yeah I’ve been googling like crazy and a lot of pieces seem to be from people identifying with Larson. Way fewer willing to own up to identifying with the needy weirdo who had no idea so many people were laughing at her behind her back.

this really hit me as well. Dorland sounded like...a lot. But what happened to her (a group of people, whom she thought were her friends and peers, mocking her for years behind her back) feels like everyone’s worst nightmare.

The un-plagiarized letter was still so obviously the same letter too! It was like a high schooler just changing one line at a time to not get in trouble. You'd think a professional writer would be better at obfuscating her sources.

I’ve spent a lifetime seeing close friends walk away without a word, leaving me wondering why. I’ve taken autism spectrum tests; the results always come back negative, but something is going on there. I feel like there must be social signals that I don’t hear, like a dog whistle inaudible to human beings. 

ADHD here, and same. I feel like I’ve spent my life trying to keep my shit under wraps so I don’t harm or make others uncomfortable, but more and more I’m asking do any neurotypicals do that for us? Why is that okay?

If you’re over the age of 15 and would tell someone that you “value their friendship”, and then literally the next day talk mad shit about them in a group text or otherwise you might be a goddamn sociopath. 

Dorland inspired a different reaction, and I have never known why. Here was someone who was driven and passionate about many of the same things as me (writing, social justice, reproductive rights) but whose approach to those subjects made me feel insecure in ways I still find hard to pinpoint. We were friendly at…