There’s also the opportunity cost. What could we be seeing, the chain of people, all suspicious of each other, that form a resistance movement to help get June away or yet another hour of torture?

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The black comedy of that day was cult member after cult member talking about how it wasn’t a cult, exalting over how fabulous their lives were because of the cult, and pitying all the “psychotic” women who didn’t know how to “make a man feel really great” because they weren’t in a cult.

Can anyone spoil this one for me? What’s the final request?

You still might get the chance. Remember when Jezebel did the profile on that weird Superstar Machine/Hot School cult and women from the cult spammed the comments talking about how great it was and how it wasn’t a cult and we should try it because it helped women stop being crazy bitches to men? I’m just saying, you…

It’s not just nudes or compromising information. It’s also knowing that there is a big group of dedicated people who know everything about you and are now dedicated to ruining your life. And, if they have a few true tidbits about you, there’s no reason not to think that they won’t embellish with lies as well. These…

I think of Whedon, now, as the minister who preaches against homosexuality and had hook-ups with rent boys on every out of town trip. I think they believe what they preach, but they just come up with a reason it doesn’t apply to them personally. Or maybe they just accept that they are “sinning” but try to do “moral”…

“Welfare queen” is a term invented by conservatives and meant to deride people who cheat the system in order to get rich with no effort. It caught on because it was applied to black people. Pointing out that it actually applies to rich white men is a great way to use the term they weaponized to cut them down.

I see I Feel Pretty as Schumer entering the Adam Sandler/Kevin James phase of her career. His movies weren’t supposed to be good. They were supposed to be watchable, appeal to his fans, and affirm that it was okay to be what Sandler/James was, which was a well-intentioned schlubby manboy. I Feel Pretty is watchable,…

Remind me, what happened in 2008, when out-of-control lenders broke the country? I recall the phrase “too big to fail” being repeated, as the government handed out money. Risk already is socialized. I’m all in favor of socializing it in a way that helps the poor and middle-class instead of the rich and big businesses.

It’s also worth saying that the polygyny of other countries has helped fuel extremist movements. When one wealthy man has five wives, four poor men have none. There’s a reason why extremists often kidnap women to use as “wives.”

Because this is how movements start. You introduce the idea. You keep talking about how it’s possible, how it helps people, how it can encourage people to work instead of discouraging them, how it could be a slight deduction from the wealthy, rather than a huge burden on the middle class. It’s not going to happen…

Agree with you that child abuse is too frequent. As someone who is a decent man dealing with childhood abuse, you have to see the angle of the Weinstein article is terrible. Imagine if people actually saw that as cause and effect, instead of just bringing up as a pop psychology explanation afterwards. “Oh, his mother…

I’m saying there is a huge leap between a mother having some bad qualities, to saying she was an abusive mother, to implying her abuse caused him to be abusive. Especially when, and again I’ll quote the book, “research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative attitudes…

That’s her face when she was about twenty-five. She’s fifty. Of course she looks different—and it’s exacerbated by the dramatically different hair, make-up, and angle of the photos. Try looking at video. Days of Thunder in 1990, Big Little Lies, last year. It’s clear she’s had some work done, but it’s also very…

You read the Weinstein article and the major complaints are she was shrill, loud, and bossy. One of the complaints is literally her yelling at the Weinstein brothers when they fought and getting them to make up. Oh, and when he was growing up, “she was the boss, not him.” Imagine that. A mother thinking she was the…

I’m looking forward to Dietland, about the feminist terrorist collective and underground feminist spies in fashion magazines and actresses-turned-philosophers writing about “fuckability theory.”

I don’t get why the dominant narrative about Kidman is that she’s had plastic surgery or botox. Clearly she has, but so have a lot of people. She looks fine to me. She looked fairly natural in Big Little Lies. She’s a good actress. She seems to be a savvy professional.

The thing is, those quotes more about the trend in profiles than CK. We have to get it through our heads that men who do this shit are not doing it because of their tortured souls and that anger, though unpleasant for them to face, is the right reaction. If the person doing the writing could get that through their…

To all these profilers I prescribe the book “Why Does He Do That,” by Lundy Bancroft, a counselor who worked with abusive men.