Because in mental healthcare, respect for autonomy is still a basic guiding ethical principle. Ye maintaining autonomy through what he’s described as episodes of a disorder isn’t an ethical failure even if it leads him down an odd, scary, or isolating path, unless it causes direct physical harm to himself or someone…

She sounds awful, and most of that stuff would cause me to not want to watch her in anything.

But I don’t understand why the vaccination stuff always leads these articles about her except that its attention grabbing given the state of the world. “She once had a frivolous view of vaccines but changed her mind.” Why is…

I feel like no one even remembers this movie which is a damn shame because it is excellent.

Also Leonardo Da Vinci was her fairy godmother.

I mean, I know you got paid to write this...but the Drew Barrymore version of Cinderella pretty much summed this all up. I mean, she fought a man with a sword, a man who was going to rape her. So...yeah. Gen X did this already guys.

Lol why is he so fucking obsessed with us (gays) and AIDS???? Like this guy is obviously a dumb clown, but like, girl just come out or something already. This is beginning to get weird and frankly kind of uncomfortable and embarrassing for you! Which is hard considering… everything about him! 

Yeah, I’m thrown off by how everyone seems to be saying , “GREAT! This is fantastic news!” It is not fantastic news. It sucks for her teammates, it sucks for the people who could have gone in her place, and quitting mid-competition is really not something to celebrate. We can be compassionate about the decision, but…

Can we find some more nuanced way of discussing this? Can we acknowledge that it is important and right for Biles to look after her mental and physical health, while also acknowledging that what happened to day was not, in fact, “worth celebrating?” It is unfortunate that she was unable to complete the competition and…

I don’t consider myself ignorant about gender identity and pronouns, but this is the first time I’ve seen someone who said that they prefer “she/they” (or “he/they”) pronouns get upset because only one of the two pronouns was used. I genuinely thought it meant they were comfortable with either of them, not that it was…

Honestly. This is so fucking stupid. The world is falling apart around us. Women in Afghanistan are about to be subject to a tirade of violence when the U.S. withdraws. The planet is burning alive. American democracy is on the verge of collapse. My city is filled with smoke. I can’t with this.

Honest question: Is this kind of switching a normal request?

“Didn’t say” is a fact. “Didn’t bother” is assuming a hostile motivation without a basis in what was actually said. Gadot’s done and said plenty to complain about in the past, but referring to Palestinians as “our neighbours” and calling for a two-state solution is not an example of that.

If instead of saying “ neighbors,” Gadot had said “Palestinians,” what other objections would you have had to her statement?

This is a weird thing I’ve seen a lot this week. There’s even an infographic that’s like “Israel isn’t a country, it’s too new. The country is Palestine.” Which is just... what? I am totally on team “Israel needs to knock that shit off and Palestinians deserve self-determination.” but Israel as a country is older than…

Referring to someone as your neighbor could be construed as an intimate reference just as using a name could be construed as just referring to someone by name and still not caring about them. Further, Israel the state and its neighbors have been in and out of conflict for almost 100 years. Perhaps she was referring to…

Are we truly examining the words from the person who came up with the idea for the “Imagine” Covid video? She’s not the person I would want to fall on the sword for. 

And if Canada fired rockets into your city indiscriminately because they felt they had more of claim to Niagara Falls, you would be okay with that?

Jeez, have any more comments to leave about Gal Gadot?! You’re having a crap fit all over this thread. Are you Palestinian? Did Gal Gadot personally hurt you? Or do you just simp for Ashley professionally? 

You know, something really troubling is how so many people have used Palestine as an excuse to fully pull off their masks and allow their antisemitism breathe right out in the open.

I feel like she handled that well, honestly. The violence must stop — period. Asymmetrical casualty totals and proportionality in responding to attacks are issues worth discussing, but she wasn’t writing an essay. She wanted to express sadness and sympathy for the victims on both sides — shocking!