I hate the idea that we would lump his sisters in here with everyone else. i hope we aren’t. They were abused by him. It was reported and then told their parents who should have handled it differently. And, even now, they have to make a choice between their family and triggers I am sure that come from interacting with…

He has an objectively brilliant, creative, unique mind; he’s the smartest person I’ve ever met and I have always found him utterly fascinating. Everyone else I’ve dated, I feel like I “figured out” after a certain time and they lost some of their luster and became human, but James was so distant and aloof and I…

James has become your stand-in for perfection, a state that is hard to envision unless it is shrunk to the dimensions of a person, place, or thing.

My favorite example of this is the podcast In the Dark, which has two seasons. The first season opens with the note that as a result of their reporting, the guy that they will spend the next ten episodes investigating had confessed days before the first episode was scheduled to drop. The second season is about a guy…

“I’ve never felt like I ever fit in anywhere. I was bullied horribly in school because I was different. The other girls never understood me. It got so bad that my mom pulled me out of school.”

when I look at that picture of Dipshit I still can’t wrap my brain around the fact that today’s GOP/conservatives would hitch their wagon to that moron. I mean, you can see his foundation line in the picture. Would you have ever guessed today’s toxically hypermasculine GOP would so slavishly support a fat old fart who…

Fair, but there’s a difference between an honest fuck up and being a serial abuser. Even if Franco did deliver some kind of updated response, explanation, apology, whatever, it’s too late now. The dye’s been cast, this is who he is. And clearly Hollywood’s ok with that.

I’m not surprised Seth Rogen is still buds with…

I think it’s presumptuous to assign a gender identity (or sexuality) to a person who lives in a time or culture where they couldn’t have identified as that, but with all that said: I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t be signing on with these hateful shitheads. Here’s a quote of hers:

A lot of these women also seem to really go to the hilt for men who are dangerous.

I’m super happy for him. Everyone deserves to be comfortable in their own skin, and be allowed to be version of themselves that makes them the happiest.

I agree that it was credible and that it wasn’t likely to sink the nomination on its own, given that it was high school behavior. What should have sunk the nomination was his reaction to it, which was that she was lying and he didn’t drink too much and it was a conspiracy against him and yelling and crying and saying…

There’s also the, uh, interesting case of a mountain of debt disappearing right before the confirmation hearings were set to begin.

Especially when someone who is black says you are being racist! You don’t get to say “Nope, I’m not racist at all”

This is how I will easily take any woman’s words over Cuomo’s: his look of satisfaction in response to her look of horror. He gets off on flexing his power over women.

Your love for Sarah is palpable, but the song is called “Angel.” Just Angel.

I have been correcting people and making enemies on this fact for YEARS and will die with it on my MuchMusic video dance-themed gravestone.

I remember a recent letter over at Slate where a woman described her lifelong battle with undiagnosed ADHD and how she, as a girl, never “caused trouble” in the stereotypical way, so she never got noticed. The one time she did see a doctor, he dismissed the idea because she had an advanced degree and thus “couldn’t”…

I’ve literally never heard of this book because I was raised evangelical and my parents only cared about Christian parenting resources, but this struck me:

My friends in Texas just got running water back today. TODAY. It’s been out since TUESDAY. Fuck this asshole. If he’s so unconcerned about Covid that he can fly to Mexico for a few days in the warmth, he can use his pull to organize water and food distribution for his constituents fucked over by deregulation. And by…

You know, I spent that whole Gorilla Glue nightmare just waiting for the stories to end. This story is the opposite of that. Please keep writing about the shitty lives and choices of Ted and Heidi forever.

how about not taking a trip with friends during a global pandemic...