Other people's problems with vomiting doesn't make it so that no one can ever do it on stage or depict in TV or movies. If they're doing it for artistic purposes, they're free to do so. This woman is a legitimate artist and I find calls for censorship appalling. They're not doing it to harm themselves or their bodies,…

Because MTV? Is this 1994?

No, you don't get to dictate what performance artists can and can't do.

Absolutely. I am a department chair at a mid-sized state university in the Midwest, and therefore have been involved in faculty searches multiple times. If I were to receive this kind of "counter-offer", while it might not drive me all the way to rescinding the offer, it would definitely give me pause. And it has…

This is scary, but - to be fair -she didn't lose a job offer because she asked for a raise. She lost a job offer after asking for a raise and 4 other perks. I don't think it was the raise ask that made the college think she wasn't a right fit for the culture.

My biggest regret in life is that I am not Audra McDonald.

Not to take away from the gravitas of this story—holy fuck it's horrific—but...nice touch on the stock photo.

You know, this happens far more than you think it does. I knew some of the first families to prosecute during the Catholic Church scandal. These weren't bad people but they were trusting at people with whom they had high esteem and wanted to feel like the world is an okay enough place or them to ignore some really…

Thank you for sharing. I wondered about that. Denial is staggeringly powerful.

I would rather her not publicly voice her support - I agree with you there. I'm really not defending her - it's just that denial is not a choice, and it's basically TEXTBOOK what she should be going through right now. Her entire reality is wrong and that takes a LOT of mental energy - and therapy, and the right…

I'm not going to get into this too much but let me say, I grew up with a parent that was a sexual predator. I was pretty confrontational around things I saw and knew and experienced but there is still something particularly disturbing about living with a sexual offender who offends on the scale as Sandusky that needs…

Yeah, I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt here. It's possible she's complicit, who knows... I certainly don't, but I do know denial is POWERFUL.

but another part of the story is that the cat scratched the kid because the kid was pulling its tail. so i mean, it's not like the cat RANDOMLY decided to attack the kid.

A scratch is what the kid had because they got it off the kid. Scratches on the neck. Which means it would've bit her.

Well maybe I was making assumptions about the attack but you are making assumptions about this person and calling him an animal abuser when he could have just acted out of some instinct to protect his child. I don't think my brother is an animal abuser because he kicked a dog when he was 8 years old.

Again, hurt child, brain no function properly would be my conclusion. I have a hard time thinking that a family that would pay for a cat therapist would just go about abusing the cat willy nilly... Maybe I'm wrong.

Right? It's the brown version of white lady feminism. White lady feminism: "I'm a white lady and I'm getting mine, sometimes on the back of other white ladies, but who cares, right?" Mindy's version is "By being brown and visible, I'm helping ALL brown people! Who cares if I'm not actually helping all brown people,…

Nope, sorry. Don't agree. There are tons of young people of color who do care and make it a point to let the world know. You can go to Google (or even Twitter) to see that. #solidarityisforwhitewomen is just one example of young kids of color caring. As was destroying the likes of Paula Deen's brand.

I mean, I think we agree, the only issue I have is defaulting white people's indifference to everyone's indifference. People of color exist, we have opinions, we voice them because we care. The fact that white people don't listen, doesn't mean that no one cares to criticize a Seinfeld or Lorre. It just means white…