I loved this. Thank you, Julianne!

You’re making an argument about reverse racism? No. It doesn’t exist.

You really don’t want to body shame, but you’re going to go ahead and do it anyway? WTH? It helps no one. Least of all people with actual eating issues — the ones your comment seems to imply “concern” for.

“With” is prob too generous. ;) When Titus was on stage, no matter what his role was, everyone else just kind of became part of the set.

Yes, yes, yes. I went to high school with him, and we did A Midsummer Night’s Dream together in ‘96-’97! Even then, it was obvious he was so fully destined for a life with his talent on full display.

Oh, see, I really suspected there were some shenanigans like these at work. Thank you for spelling out some actual possibilities!

I appreciate this article, and I appreciate your comment. I know that “people” get wedgies, but I feel like I am in a permanent state of wedgie. And I look at pictures like these, and I look at every single Beyonce performance ever, and there are ZERO wedgies, and I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. Are there…

that’s a pretty racist thing to say!

Sending you love. You are not alone. I see your pain and it motivates me to work harder to make things better. I wish I had understood sooner.

Thank you for spelling this out. Very well-said.

We can be foot soldiers of the patriarchy at the same time we are dismantling it. We can be victims of oppression at the same time we are fighting against it. It's complex. Sometimes it's contradictory.

Since you mentioned the "We Have Something in Common" duet... why is "a bird in the hand's worth two in the bush" a lyric that anyone would agree to include in a love song? Even a pop love song? Even a love song about people who are open about their brokenness? And WHAT does it even mean??

Exactly. Even if the shooter's loved ones aren't in the audience, plenty of people are watching because they're sitting in a bar or something and do not expect to watch a person die live on air. Time delays are the answer.

I'm with you on the design, but if the pieces are, in fact, made a-to-z in New York, there is *some assurance about the labor conditions of the people who put it together. (But it's hollow praise that that's the best that can be said...)

Heeeeey new Americans! Welcome. I heard you're getting some strange stuff in the mail. Feel free to turn it into profit here: http://sellpantiesformoney.com/ There's nothing my compatriots love more than a bootstrappin' story.

I hang around these parts a fair bit, and have not ever heard this particular analogy. Plus one, friend. Plus one.

yes, yes, yes, a thousand times YES!

More eloquent than I ever could have said. Thanks for jumping in!

...and a link to a dick pic. A picture that—if his at all—was almost definitely not intended to be shared with an audience beyond the immediate person he sent it to. And why this community—which is sensitive to the horrors of revenge porn—would perpetuate that very behavior...it's just really disappointing.

I don't understand the hostility, but I'm assuming you're sincere.