No, they’re right. You can be friendly and open and a great boss, but you need concrete professional boundaries.  Turning your employees into friends is a recipe for disaster.

Actually, it happens A LOT MORE...but having an eating disorder that makes you too skinny or too muscular is not a moral failure in this dichotomy, but being fat IS. 

It’s more railing against the idea that there’s only one body type that’s completely healthy. That being skinny/overweight isn’t an automatic death sentence that the media likes to portray sometimes.

The best interpretation here is that Lizzo thought her dancers were are friends. I know nothing of Lizzo beyond good as hell and her brand. Sounds to me she thought she had a posse of friends, not employees. I can see how these allegations could be a girls night out gone wild with Lizzo believing she was creating a…

It’s pretty much the same defense as Lea Michele, Jonah Hill, and Ellen DeGeneres.

Agreed. People really shouldn’t be doing this to anyone, famous or not. There’s been an uptick (that I’ve seen) of people saying really...erm graphic sexually explicit things about strangers on the internet (famous and not famous) in the last couple of years and its weird and alarming. They’re treating this guy like a…

I’m too confused about this situation to have an opinion, but in general I find it creepy to “face-claim” real people who didn’t consent to being part of smutty novels, or to post explicit sexual comments about them. It seems inevitable that it’s going to eventually annoy them and/or their family members, so maybe…

It can be both. It starts as an act - it’s the Stephen A. Smith approach of being loud and wrong so as to drive negative engagement - but if you play the role long enough eventually you start to believe it.

Agreed. It’s creepy (and overwhelmingly common) when men do this on social media, and it’s creepy here. Singling out one individual is debatably inappropriate, but anyone arguing against the “if the genders were reversed, everyone would agree that it was really inappropriate” is tough to counter for me. 

I think the Booktok aspect makes it problematic because they have fancast a character as a real person, and now they are harassing that real person who has nothing to do with these novels and just wants to play hockey without people yelling/messaging sexually graphic things at him, and I think he’s entitled to do that.

My inexpert observation is that there is a certain “mid tier” level of fame which lends itself to more tangible infatuation than megastars.

“Lewis apologized to Felicia, but also expressed confusion about where her frustrations are coming from months after Lewis first posted her TikToks about Wennberg.”

I think it’s hilarious how desperate the author is to excuse what she admits is a double standard. Might as well have ended every sentence about women harassing men with 💅.

“(which confuses me, personally, because NBA players exist)“

It’s not an unreasonable demand, and simultaneously, Lewis and other TikTokers’ confusion about what is and isn’t the right way to be a horny woman on the internet also seems fair.

That’s typical of conservatives. If they are forced by personal circumstance to recognize some right because they or their loved one suddenly needs that right, they’re for that right. But only that right. So if they’re trans but not a trans athlete, they’re for trans rights but not trans rights for stuff they don’t…

Oh, Caitlin. Always making herself the poster child for “Equality, but just for me!”

1. That’s not a selfie. I know English is an evolving language but that’s not a fucking selfie, otherwise any goddamn photo with a face on it is a selfie.

I’m surprised people aren’t mentioning what I think is the most obvious reason people think it’s a hoax: it sounded like a stupid urban legend from the start. “Putting flyers on windshields to steal your car” stupid.

we have to make sure some guy named Christian continues raking in millions for his app