In my house growing up, swearing was seen as a healthy way to vent feelings of frustration. Swearing at someone (unless clearly joking) was a no-no. Swearing about the state of things in general was (is) fair game. I can’t think of any more appropriate reason to be swearing right now.

Dropping a ‘fuck’ or ‘shit’ in frustration is no longer news. It’s just vocabulary, but CNN would like to get a news cycle out of it.

I remember that storyline, and what makes it worse is that Bridget and her coach end up together at the end of the series.

What’s even more crazy is that when we tell these experiences how common it is. How often we read about things like things like this. I remember shortly after #metoo blew up my husband and I were in the car. We were talking about it and he flippantly says “so are you a #metoo?” and I just said “yeah”. I remember how…

GFC this is so eerily similar to an experience I had when I was 13. The “just pretend that you’re asleep and he’ll go away” is exactly how I reacted. I ended up just rolling over and kind of making noise so he’d be scared his sister would hear. It was only after I was an adult that I recognized it as abuse. I had…

It’s batshit-insane to me that women & girls can be groped while they’re fucking asleep and still question what we did to bring that on ourselves, or wonder if we’ll be believed. This is rape culture & toxic masculinity!

Y'all. Keep your fucking hands off of us. It's not that hard if you put some thought into it.

Yeah, the response to his death was truly unnerving. A lot of people felt very comfortable taking his side without knowing anything about the allegations at all.

This is a little OT, but her story reminded me of Bridget’s storyline in that Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book. What was she, 16? The story portrayed her as sleeping with her coach (i.e. getting statutorily raped by her coach, but Brashares didn’t call it that) and spiralling into depression? Of course, Bridget w…

This is a mess in the FS world right now. A lot of skaters wouldn’t come forward and condemn him right after he died and still won’t now, including some of Ashley’s supposed best friends. And no one’s apologized yet for taking his side, other than Adam Rippon. It’s a cluster.

Thank you for clarifying! But god, what a horrible thing.

A “domestic issue.” Reminds me of the “we don’t talk about issues within the family to others” shaming experienced during an abusive childhood. Poor girl, I hope Princess Latifa eventually gets free, and Princess Haya gets that order. It must be incredibly frightening, running from one of the most restrictive…

The backstory is that last year one of her husband’s adult children tried to escape. She was 30 miles off the coast of India when a bunch of commandos raided the boat she was on and dragged her off by force. So this woman, knowing what her husband is capable of, has requested an official order of protection for her…

I watched the entirety of the daughter’s video (the one embedded in the article, which is about Latifa not Haya), what happened to her is heartbreaking. This article was a bit confusing so I read other stuff about the situation and hope the princess gets the protection her and her children need.

Yes, virtually anyone asking for protection needs it. (And who would ever want to be the sixth wife??)

She’s is the sixth wife (also known as junior wife) of the ruler of Dubai. It's confusing. Dude is 25 years older and his eldest is only five years younger than she is.

I didn’t really understand the backstory here, but I really hope she gets the protective order.

Saw the movie yesterday. Tarantino has done something I did not know he was capable of: making an incredibly boring movie. With the exception of about four minutes of a scene featuring Mike Moh/Bruce Lee & Brad Pitt, the first two+ hours are just tedious. It’s not lyrical and it’s not languid.  It’s insufferable and…

I am really happy people are finally starting to come around to Jackie Brown.

Yeah, I definitely feel like there’s a story there, especially since it doesn’t seem like the showrunners even considered bringing back Fontana. I suppose it could be as simple as “He didn’t really enjoy doing the show,” rather than anything interpersonal. (And given that he stuck around in season 2 long enough to…