Alright, well.

I hope this at least leads to a fruitful conversation.

They took a tough and punitive stance against a woman seeking to protect her mental health and are taking a nice and conciliatory approach towards a man seeking to protect his physical health.

It’s that ala carte type of mentality where they pick and choose what to believe based on their acceptable version of reality I’d guess. Hard to argue with them when alternate facts are their sources.

When you decide as a matter of principle that it’s impossible for you to be wrong or do anything wrong, it’s very easy to simply dismiss any thoughts that conflict with that hypothesis.

A square or emerald cut gem is ageless. I would love an emerald cut diamond. Big and plain.

That dress is, hands down, the ugliest wedding dress I’ve seen, and I used to watch Say Yes to the Dress. Everything about it, to my eye, is off - the sleeves, the neckline, the waistline, the girth of the skirt, and the train. I hate it, and I will not be deterred in my hatred. 

THIS!!! My God, I can’t believe keyboard ‘experts’ who don’t encounter bears very often are dismissing this, I love her, what she did was insane and sooo fierce, she is a feckin queen!

I watch sports. The take in this article is perfectly correct. Not sure exactly what you’re arguing against. Okay, every other athlete works relentlessly (every other athlete does not work relentlessly, but whatever). So what? What is the point you are making? Not sure how “she was booed for defeating a fan favorite”…

I’ve said this in other places but when someone is struggling with their mental health they often don’t make the best decisions. They don’t think clearly/rationally/reasonably.

my guess is no one understands “that she should have bowed out of the tournament to begin with” better than Naomi Osaka.

Not from a “religion” which forces families to disconnect from each other if one of them does something to harm it. 

This. Arguments about appropriation devolve into 'yes/no' back and forths, when it's really not so straightforward. 

Thank you! I fought for so long with my peers about how shitty and just genuinely dumb she is, and got shit for it for years. (In tiny fairness to them, I was the oldest, and tended to more well read. My peers just “liked the music”, and didn’t appreciate my cutting remarks that I could name 10 women each who were…

Oh totally. That song still fucking slaps TBH and absolutely became a feminist anthem culturally (against her wishes!), so it makes sense people thought she had legit Girl Power chops in that moment. To this day it blows my mind that she even wrote it because it’s like...too good for her to have had any part of haha.

I’ve said it before here, so this is just a reminder that Gwen Stefani is...just not smart. Not bright, not a critical thinker. She’s a cute girl with good style that she aped from the OC rockabilly scene (especially Latinas), and because she dressed counterculture and sang in a rock band, everyone just wedged her…

Would it be impossible to interview one of the original women that worked this gig? After a decade or what of people talking about this, it would be interesting to hear their POV rather than Stefani’s stagnant musings. 

Seconded, particularly because if you actually listen and look at serial killers — even the super interesting splashy “charming” or I-used-to-dress-up-as-a-clown ones — their lives are a combination of childhood trauma and early-adult narcissistic delusions of grandeur that come up against a wall of staggering…

Somebody get this woman a spot on Real Housewives of Orange County. She’d be a perfect fit.

It’s impossible to get through to Gwen Stefani types when the sense of entitlement and the conviction in their goodness is so strong. She truly believes her rules were the “unifying” rules. Despite the evidence that all that “learning, sharing, and growing from each other” only served her. In her mind, she was just a…