“I actually really hated people telling me it wasn’t my fault because I felt like they were telling me I had no agency and that these kinds of things just happen...”

Meh. Consider her history of early abuse in the article. I’m a someone who was raped in kindergarten and later experienced a series of brutal attacks, like an attempted gang rape at a church camp when I was 11. At a very early age, it just becomes a FACT that you are unsafe and that if anything happens, the people…

I see where you are coming from. I really do.

Thinking about suicide is my relief, to this day. I know it sounds silly, but it calms me down to know there is a way out, if things ever become unbearable. But, this girl was only 10. At that age, I absolutely knew you could kill yourself, but... that was something only adults do. This is beyond heartbreaking. :-(

This is heartbreaking.

Oh man, that headline had me scared/angry. Glad I read the article.

Was ScarJo busy?

Completely different. One is a precursor to extending those treatments to other patients in the future. It is research for which the public benefit is clear. There is intense oversight of clinical trials before, during, and after, and stringent protections in place for patients to ensure that they are NOT coerced into…

That actually makes it worse, now that I think about it. If there is literally no other way to get treatment OTHER than “voluntarily” giving up privacy rights, how is that actually voluntary?

A former Jezebel editor (forgot who, can’t find the tweet again) recently tweeted about how, after they asked to talk to anyone who had a creepy encounter with Louis CK, they got a ton of fake stories, an attempt arranged at the Opie & Anthony subreddit. None of those worked because all of those guys couldn’t make…

It’s because they are all about projection. They lie, therefore they are convinced we lie too.

Junior Ratfucker (second class) Jimmy O’Keefe must be a terrible disappointment to his mentor, Roger Stone. (Or not.) The really interesting question here is: Who is paying for this little gambit? The Moore campaign? Breitbart? The Mercers? Sinclair Media?

A buddy of mine has been doing back yard chickening for, um, maybe seven years now? I learned something fun the other day. You know that familiar, “buck buck buck, ba-gock!” you hear chickens make? That’s called an egg song, and some hens will walk around singing it right after they laid an egg.

The degree of nepotism that this administration has normalized is stunning. Why is his wife even there? Why are taxpayers paying for her travel and security? Why is there no ostensible divide between these two people and the role that only one of them has been empowered to perform?

This is not that uncommon. Please, please be careful on the shoulder of the road.

Can I ask you then, in all honesty: do you actually think those are comparable scenarios? Do you expect me to take that seriously?

NEVER forget that Nico Hines pretended to be gay at the olympics in order to out closeted athletes. He is a horrible human who should not still have a job writing.

You are so correct. It’s not just a TT problem, it’s a problem how we conceptualize of labor from top to bottom. Comp classes are a symptom of that larger problem and something has to be done to address that. At my university (I’m also in an English department), we offer about 175 sections of rhet comp each semester.…

At the advice of a number of people here and on Gawker, I recently read "Going Clear", which provides a really well-researched and fascinating history of Scientology. I've read quite a lot about the FLDS, and couldn't help but notice a number of similarities between the two, specifically in regards to how they isolate…

A friend and I went on the Baby Name Wizard website once — we thought of names we would name kids if we had them right then that second, and deliberately picked things that we thought wouldn't be all trendy… and then we checked them all on the website, and every single name we came up with was spiking massively right…