thank you. it’s very frustrating to have women who had great childhoods/stable relationships with their fathers come in and tell us we’re fucked up. I’m 32 and still dealing with the fall out of my father’s abandonment—-I’ve just finally stopped dating dudes who treat me like shit and thinking I can “change them”. Now…

We thought it was all a gas, but as I got older, I started to think we were cursed. There was some implicitly understood social contract between men and women we’d never been taught, and it felt like it was too late to learn it all. We had no humility and no deference. Boys liked us for as long as it took to get to…

What you said. I am in the midst of (finally) dealing with my fucked-up childhood and making the connections between my past and the way I behave now. The issues are totally different, but I totally get the author’s point- that having no roadmap for what a normal, healthy relationship looks like makes it REALLY hard…

but...but.... i have all this sanctimony built up, it must come out!

Exactly. Someone didn’t like what he said. This speaks VOLUMES.

It’s funny - the childhood and adolescence you describe as leaving you skewed, confused, and ill-prepared for many aspects of life reads as an absolute nirvana to me. I also grew up poor, and felt, somehow, like I was on the outside of everything. I would have traded my feckless parents and non-existent extended…

I related to more of this than I feel comfortable with, to be honest. These are hard things to admit or say, even to one’s self.

I feel like it’s a bit uncharitable to call An Open Secret a bomb even if yes, technically it was a total box office failure, but how many screens did it even open on? And how much money was available for any type of promotion? And how many people go to see documentaries in the theater in the first place, especially…

So.... which of these horribly powerful creeps called him first do you think?

Oh my god the Hollywood-Pedophile industrial complex has Elijah in its grasp!

Their shave lotion that I listed above is pretty good—definitely the best shave lotion they’ve had. I really like it. I’m not totally married to Kiehl’s for their shave products, though. I’m with them for their cleansers and other stuff.

I hate it when Spencer Pratt is right about things.

Dan Schneider, Dan Schneider, Dan Schneider

Ugh that rumor that focuses on a pop star who got her start on one of his shows makes me skin crawl.

Yeah, agreed that controlled substances shouldn’t taste like candy. That is asking for trouble.

People also criticized Terri Shields for being “controlling.” Maybe she had to be in that environment.

Most 18 year-olds cut loose, they just don’t have access to a money pile and a famous name to get into clubs with. Which kind of goes back to my point. For all people wrung their hands over Miley going nuts when she hit her majority, her life was very far from the kind of collapse Cory Haim, Macaulay Culkin, or…

He is a great parent for doing this. Why would you leave your child without some kind of protection in such a cut throat industry? It is sad when you see the devastating effect like with Corey Haim.

Billy Ray Cyrus gets a lot of shit for riding his daughter’s coattails, but when you hear about how common abuse of child actors is in the industry, and you have people like Wood and Mara Wilson flat out say that their parents stood between them and a lot of bad stuff, and you remember that Cyrus had been a successful…

I wish he’d sue me. It might get the mainstream press to report on his crimes.