Minimal (if any) support for mothers, no affordable childcare, and the burden of care placed on women.

My heart is broken. This show is my life. Bravo to Mel and Sue for standing up and I hope Paul and Mary do the same - they can all come to my house and criticize every single thing I make BUT I WILL TRY FOR YOU MARY I WILL TRY SO HARD!!!!!!

This news is heartbreaking, but I’m not ready to write off future series even if they don’t include my beloved Mel and Sue. If Mary Berry leaves with them though, all bets are off.

I’m shocked that any deal didn’t contain a lock for all four main cast members, since they all openly expressed unease about the show leaving the BBC. Channel 4 basically just paid eight figures for a white tent.

What is the point?! I love Mel & Sue.

“We consume 500 million straws each day. The equivalent of 127 school buses filled with straws. It’s disgusting, ” Adrian Grenier declares the minute I sit down, brandishing a plastic straw that the waiter had forgotten to remove. “There should be children in those school buses, going to school, to learn, not straws,”…

There are free downloadable BDSM novels that are better written than the 50 Shades series. How that book got legs will be an ever-present mystery to me.

I know people love this series, but I read the first book and had a terrible time of it (the writing drove me nuts), was bored to death during the movie, but LOVED the soundtrack. So if this soundtrack is as good as the last one, I’ll consider it a win.

uh....he’s an entitled dumbass.

Right? I don’t follow DWTS all that closely but I’m aware of who has been on previous seasons and there have certainly been more controversial people. Lochte made a fool out of himself in Rio, but what population of people would be upset enough to be willing to spend a night in the clink just to run around in a silly…

You could stop all acid attacks in India tomorrow if the guaranteed punishment for an acid attack was a bucket of acid over your head.

This is a crime that should be an eye for an eye. Throw acid in someones face, get acid thrown in yours. It’s so horrific, physically, financially, emotionally, I don’t see how a mere jail sentence could make the attacker Truly Get It.

I cannot imagine a sicker, more sadistic way of assaulting someone- there is just something so cruel and calculating and horrific about tossing acid in a woman’s face. It’s dehumanizing beyond belief. You take away someone’s smile, someone’s sight, the ability of her family to recognize her.....

America feels greater already. /s

Being guilty of racism =/= guilty of murder.

There was an actual real witness that could be verified and was used in the Rudy Guede trial who saw a black man fleeing the scene at the time. Knox was told this during a really long interrogation and after a while named literally the only black man that she knew in Italy who also knew Kercher. It’s not like she…

Counterpoint:

Sure, sure, I can understand that. Counterpoint: 13 hours of questioning, no lawyer, no translator, lies about evidence and witnesses, and an insistence that she *imagine* what might have happened to fit their narrative, after her own account of her whereabouts was shot down again and again.

This feels like SJP is trying to rebound from just poorly Sex and the City has aged in a cultural sense on the whole and how tone deaf the last movie was.

I may get attacked for this, but the British press coverage, and the response of the readership, was just as baffling/terrifying as the Italian legal system. It looked at the time like some weird echo chamber was created between the British tabloid press and the Italian courts, goading each other and whipping each…