You know, despite the largely terrible stuff on Jez in the past few years, every now and again, you guys crank out something like this. Great writing. Solid insight. I’ll probably read this piece several times.

I’m sure much of the sex with his wife is against her will, but she just gives in to his talk of wifely duty and how god wants her to submit to her husband.

100% that guy’s raped someone.

“they didn’t feel as though it was full and complete and done in the typical way the FDA does this.”

Look, you make some good points, but fuck her.

She also decided to get pregnant and have kids when she knew she was about to go on trial and possibly get sentenced to jail, which kind of makes me wonder if she didn’t just have them to try to avoid prison, in which case those kids are maybe better off being raised without her? 

A one-way ticket to a “friend’s wedding”? Yeah, bullshit.

Know what else hurts innocent people? Giving them false medical tests. 

By “protect life” they mean potential life that has no voice, that they can twist and spin however they want. If they actually wanted to help or protect women and other pregnant people, they’d treat them like human beings. But it’s clear they don’t believe they are human beings. Not really. Just incubators.…

It’s a matter of time before a woman dies due to being denied abortion services for these situations.

it isn’t “liberals” shooting people up, brain genius.

I’m pretty sure mass shootings have occurred before social media, but go off Professor. It’s weird you’re blaming “liberals” when you also say gun laws won’t do shit. Who is asking for them then, conservatives? Then you say, “it is what it is,” resigning yourself to accepting mass violence, offering nothing to the…

I hope this woman gets a dump truck full of money for having to endure this bullshit. I’d love to think those parents would be stripped of their firearms, but we know that’s not going to happen.

Am I the only one that finds all of this so exhaustingly boring? I can’t even watch the news anymore because it hogs up all the airtime. I’d like to be able to just go one day without hearing about this trial, about The Orange One, and all the witnesses and the grand jury and Alvin Bragg and the rest of it. It’s not…

You guys should stop by. I’m in the group and we have a bourbon tasting coming up. Pine is hosting and Pascal is picking up the pizza.

Just don’t tell Majors. We’re voting on whether he gets to stay.We aren’t sure whether to suspend him temporarily (the Harry Styles) or go all the way (the full Pratt)

Man America is so fucked. There are ZERO circumstances where your religious beliefs should trump my quality of life. Religion is a choice.  And because I choose not to, my life suffers?

“...this old fart who at his age should probably have stayed off the ski slopes in the first place.”

Right, this is ludicrous. We can feel both empathy for her as someone who has clearly spent most, if not all, of her life trapped in a system that has helped make her feel as she does - and empathy for how much she has been swallowed by this - while still feeling rage over the fact that she’s chosen a path where she…

In college I got food poisoning and dropped nearly fifteen pounds. I was over-fucking-joyed because it got me to size 7.

Yup. If Gwyneth admitted she starved herself to conform to the pressures of first Hollywood and then the Wellness World, I’d like her a lot more than I do. But she doesn’t. She tells a lot of bullshit lies about mindfulness and the myriad benefits of bone broth. It’s not the starvation that’s offensive, it’s the…