The bigger point is that Buruma is straight up guilty of bad journalism. He didn’t do ANY due diligence, by his own admission, on the nitty gritty of the entire Ghomeshi case nor did he concern himself with the validity of the 20+ accusers. Buruma openly admitted that Ghomeshi approached him with the idea for this…

He didn’t suffer “the same fate” as Ghomeshi; he made an incredibly dumb decision as editor to run a very misleading piece and had to give up his job over it. He is not the first person to lose their job over making a dumb, work-related decision.

I think he deserved to lose his job as editor if he leaves out relevant facts to try to prop up a bullshit story.

My Mom fluctuates (and has fluctuated my whole life) between being about 20 pounds heavier than she wants to be and being a weight she feels is ideal. She also fluctuates between calling herself “disgusting” and throwing a tiny celebration for herself daily when her weight is in check. Unfortunately, that tiny…

I also don’t like it being “between a person and her doctor” because most doctors (#notalldoctors, lol) are fucking useless at weight loss advice. I went in for a checkup and the doctor tut-tutted about my weight (wow, I’m fat? Gee doc I never noticed!) and instructed me, in one sentence, to “get more excercise and…

Being fat shamed by the doctor is one of the reasons I’ve put off making appointments lately. Which as a public health person, I know is bad, but after having a nurse at the student health center spend most of my appointment time talking about my weight instead of what i actually went there for (birth control), I…

I used to think that weight was between a person and their doctor. Then I had sciatica about 10 years ago. My first neurology appointment the doctor shamed me for 45 minutes about how my weight was causing my sciatica. Fast forward 9 years and 50# lighter.... I still fucking have that sciatica and wish I could scream…

For me, the most infuriating thing is the clear data that’s been known for decades linking trauma to higher risk of developing obesity, cancer and mental health issues.

Wow, that Slate piece is a meisterwerk in deflection and minimization. He would rather be talking about anything else BUT this topic. He’s getting hung up, as men do, on whether or not the crime was proven in court and a guilty sentence awarded; he doesn’t consider sexual assault or harassment to be crimes, only…

Their clan gets a charge out of needless killing and wanton destruction. They love holding up dead things they killed themselves, and they revel in walking through disaster scenes. Anything they touch eventually dies or gets ruined. And they love it.

They are so valuable, so vital.

I read the article I am convinced Gomeshi is a sociopath. Seriously that guy isn’t normal. I followed his trial (I’m a Canadian from Toronto so it was kind of big news) and his legal team never once tried an “innocence” defense, it was totally a tear down of the accusers by his legal time. I mean normal people don’t…

What is it with supposed adults posing with a caught fish like it’s some sort of major accomplishment? (And I don’t just mean these jackasses)

Your first line literally gives two reasons why he deserved to be sacked as the editor...

The redemption of men must go on, at all costs. They are so valuable, so vital. In a couple of years, Ian Buruma would be given a platform by another powerful dude to claim he was taken down by an overly sensitive hit mob too. On and on it goes, the wheels of patriarchy in perpetual motion.

I really can’t overstate how much I’m looking forward to the day when “Look at me, I’m Mr. Outdoorsman!” has a shitload of indictments dropped on him that ensure it’ll be a long time before he sullies nature with his presence again. 

I just audibly gasped in my office when I scrawled to this. My coworkers probably think I just read about some horrible natural disaster. (Which, I guess isn’t a totally inaccurate description of Eric.)

She’s clearly the ‘Girlfriend Chameleon’. Anyone that knows her is likely baffled that she went fishing. 

Your adblocker is the cause of that.

They’re good dogs, Drew.