You’re ALL over this thread spewing some nonsense about her not being “brave enough”, which tells me that you don’t seem to understand what it’s like to be in position to call out a cultural icon without evidence for a crime that unfortunately large sections of the American public will automatically think you’re lying…

Where did you hear that she’s not being treated for her mental illnesses? I’m not challenging that statement, I’m just wondering.

I have yet to hear of a medical professional who has officially diagnosed Leslie van Houten with sociopathy. Manson, definitely. If you’ve heard differently, I’d be really interested in reading that material.

Their hyperbolic statement doesn’t make your false equivalency valid. If you personally don’t believe that prison sentences are meant to be rehabilitative that’s fine. But the parole board she appealed to thought differently, and I would hazard a guess that one of the major reasons the governor overruled that…

Comparing Leslie van Houten to OJ is absurd. Nobody who has considerable knowledge of the Manson Family thinks Leslie didn’t do it. As evidenced by the incredible malice of commenters in articles like these, even if she was released and sent to live under an assumed name, it’s very likely either freaky Manson…

I’m sorry, what about my comment was “deliberately stupid”? Your use of hyperbole paints parents who want/need their own space as monsters. I worked with a lot of parents with PPD for a while, and most of them said that among other things a huge stressor for them was not having an appropriate sleep schedule 2, 3 or 4…

A thought I’d like to add: there’s a huge difference between a child who wakes up in the middle of the night and comes into their parents room or needs to fall asleep with a parent present but in their own bed, and a child who as the author describes is “terrified to sleep alone”.

It’s entirely possible to have sympathy for the parents and think that the situation was handled improperly. They’re obviously suffering under the current arrangement in multiple ways, and I don’t think it’s inappropriate for a parent to say “sleep training is for me, so that I can get a good night’s sleep and wake up…

This honestly sounds horrifying. I’m fully aware that all children have different needs and reach life milestones at different paces, but this isn’t a case of parents being down to sleep with/near their kid for an indeterminate amount of time as so many in the comments are want to. (If that’s you, I totally support…

The average dose of acid in the mid- to late-sixties was 270 micrograms or more. In the late-eighties/nineties, this dosage had dropped to between 100 and 25 microgram. So we’re talking about a potency two to three times stronger than what you were probably working with, assuming that you were among the vast majority…

I made mention of this upthread with someone using the “they knew murder was wrong” argument. I have no doubt they knew murder was wrong, but being doped up all the time and deprived of sleep and food (apparently also a tactic Manson used) has to have some effect on cognitive understanding of what they were doing.

Are you in your 60s/70s? The acid produced and widely distributed (in many cases for free) in the 60s is vastly different chemically speaking from anything that’s around now. And they weren’t just taking acid, there were other halluginogenics, cocaine, etc.

She was also a 19 year-old who was heavily under the influence of a number of hallucinagenic drugs, and food and sleep deprivation at the time of the murders. All of those were tactics specifically designed by Manson to make sure that his followers didn’t have the energy or the clearheaded-ness to think about what he…

Than goodness for this. I feel like it may also help in situations where a young pregnant person wants to have their child without really thinking it through. As in, I can imagine that there is a significant proportion of pregnant teenagers who willingly refuse abortions, but only because they’re influenced by false…

Perhaps it’s because Beyonce, as a vocal feminist and proponent of empowering women worldwide (particularly women of colour), is shitting all over the ideals she tauts to sell albums by allowing this to happen under a brand that bears her name? Is she the only one who was part of that decision making process?…

Thank you for making this point!! It’s entirely possible that this is horrifying and that Beyonce should “cop flack” for it, and also possible that she’s receiving more criticism than the typical clothing line owner for a variety of unfair reasons. It doesn’t have to be one or the other.

UGH it’s the worst. It would be awesome to not have to put anything but a penis inside my body and not get pregnant. But that’s not the reality. My IUD is awesome, I love it and I plan on getting many more. And I will sing the praises of IUDs for those who are a good match for them to anyone who will listen.

YES. If your gynecologist isn’t telling you about the potential side effects/dangers of IUDs when you have a consultation, you need to get a new fucking doctor. Otherwise, no one should be telling you about potential dangers to your body based on some far-off theory they have.

I feel like this is something that someone needs to say on every article with any kind of positive review of an IUD: IUDs aren’t any more “not for some people” than any other type of birth control. People have bad experiences with IUDs, but people also have bad experiences with literally every other method of…

Hey there. I’m not trying to get into an unnecessarily aggressive internet argument with you here, but would it be possible for you to consider not making blanket statements about things being universally possible for survivors of various types of abuse? As someone who was the victim of sexual abuse in an entirely…