I always both agreed with all criticisms of her and had an odd desire to defend her. It was weird. Before his full douchebroness revealed itself people were always so quick to saint him and villainize her. And, yeah, she was pretty awful so that last part is fair. But I always thought he came off as such an…

Nope. You can decide to not have a relationship with a parent without it meaning there was abuse. That doesn’t mean the custodial parent did any “poisoning.”

Yeah, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the onus to act like an adult is not on the 15 year-old daughters but rather on the adult man complaining his daughters won’t see him in a magazine interview.

My mom is still a good parent without having to be a cheerleader for my shitty father. She never stopped me from seeing him. The only person who did that was him. Even so, when I was a kid, I loved him. But then I grew up and realized what kind of person he is. The blame for our nonexistent relationship is on him, not…

Yeah, no. Forcing a kid or coercing them to visit someone they don't want to see is not good parenting.

When my parents were divorcing my dad wasn’t abusive but he did say really really nasty things about my mom. After telling him several times I didn’t want to talk about my mom and I didn’t want to hear him talk about her either, I came to the realization that he wasn’t going to stop. I stopped seeing him for awhile…

Um they’re not wrong. Their father is an adult and should know better than to discuss his relationship with them in public. That you’re questioning 15 year olds and not the 40 year old loser who can’t be bothered to make any effort unless it’s talking to a tabloid is pretty messed up.

Nope, instead they love to hype up Parental Alienation Syndrome despite the fact it’s not actually real and the child usually has damn good reasons for deciding on their own to sever that relationship. Good job gaslighting your own kid, though. I’m sure that will help repair yalls relationship..

My mother really encouraged me to see my father, and I still didn’t. He wasn’t abusing me, he just had stuff going on in his life that was hard for me to deal with and I wanted to hang out with my friends.

Not to sound like a drama queen but my asshole father is the same way. To parents like that if their kids aren’t coming by its because they’re being kept from doing so. The child being sick of selfishness, cruelty, abuse, or a horrible attitude & way of acting never occurs to parents like them.

I’m really glad that at 12 I wasn’t asked questions about my parents by People Magazine.

I’ve had the notion for a while that courts need two branches at the judicial level. The first is the procedural branch that runs the trial itself, making sure all laws and procedures are met. The second is the sentencing branch. Those judges are given a blind account of the trial (no qualifiers as to race, gender,…

“He can now look forward to a productive life without being burdened with the stigma of having to register as a sex offender.

The mission of this organization is education. Smart’s experience is extremely specific. If I’m teaching kids not to do drugs, I’m not going to bring in Mr. L my high school teacher and have him pop out his fake teeth and explain to the children that one night a drug-addled man picked a bar fight with him and curbed…

Imagine all the people who bitch about a baby crying on a plane feel about being seated next to someone actually giving birth to one?

i am almost positive adele has a vocal coach. she went to a performing arts high school. i can’t imagine that she doesn’t take regular, professional vocal coaching.

I’ve been waiting for this since watching the series. People can argue about Avery for days, but Dassey’s conviction always seemed like complete bullshit. I’m glad people were able to focus on freeing him instead of his uncle.

It’s about looking down on women for engaging in a behavior that can’t be described as modest combined with some of the respectability politics that have entered the feminist movement ("What will people think of us womenfolk?").

Yeah, I don’t give a fuck anymore what anyone thinks.

I think the words people do and don’t feel comfortable using for sex are super interesting, like I don’t mind calling it fucking but “making love” gives me the heebies even though I don’t engage in casual sex. A friend of mine has a theory that you should only have sex with people who use the same terms as you because…