I agree! My dad’s dating life was so healthy it is freaky and I think it was good for me to have that example. I met a lot of his girlfriends and I loved all of them. And almost everyone he broke up with he stayed friendly with; many even staying actual friends with! I think he and my step-mom actually hang out with…

No, that is ridiculous. This is not something that should have blanket statements like that. These things will differ on a case-by-case basis. Single parents can and should judge for themselves what their kid can handle and who can be a part of their lives.

Calvin Harris shaded himself- his tweet basically says that Rihanna's star power made that song, not his writing or producing talent.

I understand that some girls want to hide skin problems or they use makeup as an accessory, but I usually feel that women should wear less.

I think it was far more blurry than that. This one has all sorts of grey areas: restricting the elderly or mentally ill from having sex, even when it is desired and pleasant for them vs. criminalizing sex with a partner who cannot give informed consent. When things are very grey (seriously, no pun intended) I think we…

It’s completely possible his “confession” was the result of an unclear or a misleading line of questioning, or that he was confused or misinterpreted. The crime he was accuse of = horrible—but investigators can be shady af about questioning / garnering confessions and in a case like this where everything is confusing…

There could’ve been a number of reasons — no eyewitness testimony, for one, because the roommate who said she’d heard sex sounds was supposedly separated from them by a curtain and was so uncomfortable talking about sex on the stand it was hard for her to even say what she’d heard. Also, although Rayhons’ semen was…

I assume it’s the tone of the people quoted. It’s insanely condescending and out of touch.

I get what you’re saying.

They don’t have more of a push than other, non-legacy kids that qualify. The entire point of the article is that they’re letting kids in with lower qualifications *because* of legacies and donations. They are not as qualified, and they’re not bringing a unique voice to campus. They’re just bringing money.

Not legally parked if it’s partly on the sidewalk.

You can be proud of your accomplishments and hard work while still acknowledging your privilege. That means, yeah, admitting that part of why you got into your school was that you were a legacy and if you were in a different position but worked just has hard, it probably wouldn’t have been possible. I’m speaking here…

OK, so we’re ignoring the really egregious unethical actions (ie the 10mill donors) for now. You’ve stated before that legacies are more likely to have access to privileges that the vast majority of students do not have. You really think that, if two students are truly equally qualified, we should pick the kid who…

When legacies are getting into schools at 5x the rate of regular applicants there is a lot more going on than just legacies having been given more resources and thus becoming better students. Also, your assertion that IQ is heritable (a “fact” used to support scientific racism) has been thoroughly debunked.

I’m not saying there’s not, I’m saying that it isn’t the ONLY reason they’re getting in— they’re also getting the extra leg up of being favored because they’re legacies. A leg up they really don’t need because they’re incredibly privileged.

I imagine an application that says you’ve been working since you were a toddler and an essay about navigating puberty in the public eye are pretty compelling to an admissions officer.

My standard response whenever I hear anyone decrying affirmative action or talking about quotas or any of that other nonsense is to say, “Okay, let’s start with legacies.”

Yeah, I feel like 1) it’s a bigger problem with legacies as there are way more legacies than child (or adult) actors with money who want to go Ivy leagues and 2) at least the child actors have something that adds to their life experience to put on their resume and make them stand out.

That and there aren’t very many of them. The .01 percent of kids at ivies are child stars, where about 1/3 of kids that are legacies are accepted.