I think the rage was from before, as she had shared a photo of their daughter’s face on her social media without their consent, knowing they did not want their daughter face to be shown on social media. She deleted it, but it obviously triggered him in particular.

So I’m feeling very grateful for this space tonight. My mother was in the hospital for a week and just got home—it’s a long story but she’s basically starting to lose ground. Mom has finally admitted that it’s time to at least consider getting onto lists for long-term care. It’s a sad thing and nobody really wants to…

Sorry I couldn’t thank you guys sooner for helping me out. I had my surgery last week and it wasn’t so bad. One second they were wheeling me into the room the next I was waking up another room. The pain never got to bad either. They had to remove one of my ovaries. Turns out the cyst has twisted around it twice and…

I don’t think I’ve noticed too much of her in the news... but I’m not paying a ton of attention. My thought was, if your wife is in fact doing some of the writing, then why are you not asking for her to get actual credit? Step up for your wife, dude.

I think you are absolutely right. I was working at large food company where any blatant harassment was often resulting in dismissal. There was even a time when I had green light from my manager to bully the bullies and I forced them to behave. One would think that food manufacturer with uneducated workforce would be…

I hardly feel like this is reaching.

I am both not surprised and appalled that Blizzard would act this way OUTSIDE its own con and get itself BANNED from the convention. THAT right there is TELLING as bloody hands at a murder scene.

One person versus Activision/Blizzard and they’re banned. This more and more isn’t…

This is the gold standard for how all companies should be.

It is an example of the company having serious problems and sweeping them under the rug rather than making real changes to the company culture. This matters because that is what ActiBlizz is trying to do with the current scandals. Without involvement by a government agency and the constant media coverage, the problems…

“Shit rolls uphill” is really the only way to keep companies accountable for the corporate culture they foster. Sometimes there’s a direct chain of causation from shitty leadership down to shitty employees, sometimes a shitty employee is just shitty in their own right... but the expectation that shitty employee…

Oh man, it must have felt SO GOOD for Emily Mitchell to be able to “well actually...” Blizzard after the way she was treated. Also, props to Jeremi Gosney for not just believing his colleague but using his position to actually back her in a meaningful way and not just put out some bullshit “I see you, I believe you,…

I love the fact that at the heart of Amanda Knox’s saga, of which all the men around her including her then boyfriend and the actual murderer were moved to the background due to how both Italian and American culture works, this movie also completely removes her mother. Her parents, both of them together, stood next to…

Mr. Levy was raised in the Pentecostal religion and is also still working out the shame and trauma he has around sex. He was also abused by a babysitter (that’s he’s just starting to come to terms with because I pointed out that I’d kill a bitch if she (or he) laid a hand on Boy Levy in that way and he’s about the…

I’m so sorry you’ve had to live through all of these things, and I sincerely appreciate you sharing.

Evangelical “purity” culture just amplifies the bigger cultural message that refusing sex is a failure in a marriage and that solving it just requires having sex more. Anytime my partner or I have struggled with sex it is due to something completely unrelated to our desire for physical intimacy and relates to much…

This review seems like another version of “the movie wasn’t as good as the book” for the Twitter age.

I have a very hard time telling someone of high school age that they’re not allowed to heavy-handedly transgress against the some of the normative structures and traditions most relevant to their present stage in life. For a person in high school, that’s gonna be stuff like school sports, cheer, prom, weird dating…

Hmm, I always thought the cover of Live Through This depicted a beauty queen, the beauty queen from the song “Miss World”, which is a single on the album?

The impact is so real, even generations later. My grandmother and uncle were taken and sent to boarding school. My grandmother was beautiful, so beautiful. She was a lifelong alcoholic, my uncle a street person. He was a man of tremendous talent and dignity, known as “The Duke.” He just couldn’t stand to be inside.…

As the article noted, this is not a surprise to anyone paying attention—it’s a horrific fact of life in Canada. I would like to emphasize the fact that these schools were operational well into the twentieth century. They were operational in my lifetime. The Canadian government has had a long standing policy of “assimil…

The forcing the IUD on her is what really killed me. That’s essentially forced sterilization (since they clearly have no plans to let her remove it), and regardless of whatever concerns someone might have about whether having another kid would be good for her mental health I thought we had agreed decades ago that…