Yes, that’s what makes it all the more heartbreaking. All this woman has ever known for her entire life is abuse—I’m sure she thinks she’s good for nothing more than a tool for someone to rage upon.

I don’t know that there’s a lot of crossover between strip club-goers and fans of “Crazy Rich Asians.”

I missed the part where she was saying that her suffering was grewater than anyone else’s? My understanding was that she was speaking about how the incidents impacted her own life, which is totally fair. All reads of this book so far talk about how she doesn’t seem to be asking for sympathy or making it a “poor me”…

This is kind of the root of the problem: She is somehow not allowed to feel those feelings because she is regarded as beautiful by many? That’s BS. We all have our various privileges, but we are all allowed to go through our individual shit. Is a broken arm a helluva a lot better than cancer? Absolutely, but that…

Maybe her putting it all out there will help other people know going through similar stuff that these things happen, even to the rich, famous and beautiful? Maybe she’s helping to normalize conversations that should be more normal?

How about the women who are desperately trying to change things from within? Should they just give up? Should they not try?

You are assuming that Singer did not try to change things, though. Or that her predecessor, Sharon Turney, did not try change things, either. Is it possible that both women did try to make major changes to shift with the times, and left the company specifically because they were stymied by the very men this article…

Jan Singer had ZERO to do with any of the male gazey stuff at VS. That’s not her style, and imagery wasn’t something she had any control over (no one beyond Ed Razek & his direct teams had anything to do with the fashion show, photo shoots or any model casting either). She’s a good person and a strong merchant. Don’t…

FYI: Beyoncé first launched Ivy Park in 2016. This is a relaunch, with adidas as a new partner (her original partner was Topshop, whom she left because of sexual harassment charges brought against Topshop’s founder).

I feel like there will be a lot of hot goss from the John Mayer references and stuff like that. She’s obviously putting it all out there in this book, which likely means it will be a good read (beyond sharing her personal story of abuse, which is not salacious).

Kobe Bryant is a legit hero and major role model for the black community—this is not an overstatement. He was an amazing athlete, but also made a lot of contributions to the community: support of women in sports, the WNBA, his marketing company, being an excellent father and getting an Oscar (!!!). I think a lot of…

Well, that answers my question—I thought that maybe if it was gender neutral, that the XL would be more of a men’s XL? I was hoping it was more inclusive than we thoughts, but sounds like that’s a no.

They’re right there behind him in the video.

I get that he’s the Pope of the people and all that, but he still doesn’t deserve to be grabbed—he’s not public property. Because if some guy had grabbed a woman like that, and she had slapped his hand away, we’d probably think it was OK, right?

I have a pink one. It weighs nothing, is totally warm and doubles as a blanket.

All they needed to do was make this ad more about her making a change in herself. One line midway though would have done the trick: “I never thought I’d stick with it—I’m proud of myself” or whatever. Instead she just says she can’t believe how much it changed her, but there is literally nothing in the commercial to…

Agree. I’m unclear on why he would need to mention her by name in his statement about his actions. That seems like it would only bring her more negative attention and cement the association further, and she definitely doesn’t need that.

This is the plotline of an episode of the Larry David Show: He felt that marriage was until “death do us part,” therefore he would be free to get frisky in the afterlife. And his wife felt that marriage was for eternity. Clearly, Rose sides with Larry on this issue.

Yeah, a lot of authors in all genres do this.

I think people familiar with the book industry would know about the arrow. But the average person in this country would just hear “NY Times best seller” and think that meant it was a super-popular book (and have no idea that there was an “asterisk” of any kind).