There’s a sucker born every minute - P.T. Barnum & Gwyneth Paltrow

I think the only solution would have been for the media to ignore Courtney. You’re very right in your description of how they behaved back then. They were constantly pushing for attention, doing anything possible to get in front of the cameras and hyper sexualizing themselves. There was a lot of concern for Courtney,…

She was nearly a child

YES.

Nearly a child? She was an a adult. You don’t have to turn her into something she wasn’t for her to still have been a victim.

Hey, it can be two things: Stodden can be a victim of abuse and a terrible person who probably shouldn’t be on TV. Kinda like O’Neal can be a “former AV Club writer,” and one of, like, three or four people who all but made this site.

Let’s just look back at that AV Club article...

Sorry, multiple things can be true. She may have been groomed and let down by multiple levels of society and somehow passed through far too many safety nets that should have prevented all of this from happening.

I feel like I land in the middle here because on the one hand, she seems awful, but on the other hand, I don’t believe that all dogs have an endless right to life so long as we don’t have dog zoos they can live at if they’re seriously violent. As in: in the real world, aggressive dogs are very hard to just “keep away”…

In 1986, he was 23 and had like six credits to his name. I’m going to cut him a little slack for going along to get along. Blame the director and producer.

Yeah, I live with some teens/young adults and my wife works in a hospital -- we both laughed at this a bunch. It’s not some kind of ground-breaking comedic idea (also I don’t think I heard my favourite new word “yeet” in the sketch, plus no one called anyone “sis” which my kids do a lot), but it was fine. (And Musk is…

Seeing the usual heated Twitter discourse over the gen z sketch and how it mocked AAVE was interesting because it reminded me a great deal of all the discourse from Daniel Kaluuya’s episode over the black family COVID game show sketch. You would often hear blame given to white writers (even some comments that the show…

The aave debate was weird to me because they kept complaining that the sketch was using the language “wrong” as if it was supposed to be “authentic” in the sketch rather than a comical exaggeration.

I think it’s kind of hilarious that people are asking “why Elon Musk?” when the answer is pretty obvious - people have been talking about it incessantly for weeks now. SNL doesn’t care if you’re “hate watching” as long as you’re watching.

Fuck him. He’s no more owed an unfettered platform than anybody else. He’s a clear and ongoing menace to this country and FB has every right and reason to ban him for life. Will his lumpen followers then abandon FB? Bye, bitches. But I know FB ultimately only cares about their bottom line and that will be the final…

Trump’s website is such a great example of what he means by “free speech”. No one is speaking there except him, it’s just a blog with links that allow you to amplify his speech by sharing it to Facebook or Twitter. That’s all that he cares about. It’s also very Trumpy in the shitty quality and the focus on purchasing…

In the Before Times, our local Goodwill stores had these HUGE, once a year blowout sales of all the shiny, sequined, boa-ed stuff they’d had donated over the year--it’s basically Black Friday but for terrific sequined smoking jackets. Professional thrifters treat this as their wedding day and Christmas combined. They…

“What I’ve learned on TikTok is that I can’t shop at thrift stores because I contribute to the gentrification of thrift store prices,” she says. “But I also shouldn’t shop at fast places like Forever 21 because they use child labor sweat shops.” She can’t afford high fashion either, and can’t shop from Amazon because…

Kaavia is a very cute baby but can we stop pretending like celebrity babies are somehow more expressive and interesting when non-celebrity babies are basically the same? Every celebrity baby/child is growing up with the idea that they are somehow sooooo unique and special and cool and what kind of an adult does that…

Caitlyn Jenner’s decision to run for governor in California has for the moment turned the process into a tabloid joke. Yes, it’s paparazzi-funny that the parent of Kylie and Kendall and all their semi-famous brothers is running for governor.