Fine if you need more justification than the half a million images of children being raped he hoarded, I have a PhD in literature and his poem fucking sucks too. 

Why do you believe “rehabilitation” means entitlement to have everyone else pretend, in all contexts, that he never did anything bad? Why are you claiming that a poetry journal declining to publish this man’s work is so awful that he might as well be executed?

I think that discounts the naivity that comes with being a teenager/VERY YOUNG adult, and the level of manipulation coming from the older person. At 40 I am horrified by what I “allowed” to happen to me in my 20's, and I wouldn’t have realized this until I watched friends/ read news stories where the outcomes were…

Using self-harm and suicidal gestures to control victims is the part of domestic violence that will never cease to infuriate me. It’s an incredibly effective form of control and has the fringe benefit of adding stigma to people who struggle with self-harm and suicidality but aren’t abusers.

I’ve seen it hypothesized before and it seems to fit here, that older men date much younger women because older women have seen through and are tired of their bullshit.

The amount of grifting that this pandemic has led to is f*cking depressing. Remember the guys who hoarded hand sanatizer and then sold it? The fake companies who got lucrative contracts to manufacture and sell masks? Now, we’ve got scammers running startups to administer vaccines.

I remember talking to a couple of thin friends a couple of years ago about size discrimination and first realizing that some people didn’t recognize thin privilege.

I have a good friend who is objectively beautiful (she models and is a fairly successful stage and screen actress). Many years ago, we were chatting and she said something along the lines of “and you can bet that wouldn’t have happened if I wasn’t beautiful.” It wasn’t boastful or arrogant, it was just a matter of…

When I met my husband I was 180 lbs (I am 5'10) and my highest was 245 (pregnant), current weight is 225 lbs. He has never judged me or thought of me as disgusting. Loves me top to bottom.

After I dropped 40 pounds, I had two longtime guy friends suddenly decide that they saw me in a Different Way. Did I want to date them? No, I did not because they lacked so much self-awareness. I also had an ex decide I was The One after all, and he swears it had nothing to do with my "dramatic transformation." (His…

I work 7 days a week on covid response and had to send my kids to live with their grandparents, but yeah, sure, I shouldn’t judge people who take holidays, have large gatherings, don’t wear masks etc. despite all the government warnings and rules enforcing guidelines around those things. 

This is one HELL of a bad take. Wow.

Wow.

I feel this little ditty from 3 months ago might be relevant to this conversation

Also, I have to say that I am thankful that I wasn’t the only one ready to call this opinion piece bullshit. I can’t believe the utter garbage I just read lmfao, G/O strikes again I guess

A few weeks ago, a friend told me that he was thinking of flying over the Christmas holiday to visit his grandmother ... Could the maxim “stay home” apply so neatly to him?

I don’t shame or scold because, as another commenter wrote, no one cares what I think. I don’t consider myself that militant. I understand that people and situations are grey. I appreciate the nuance and I am *still* judging those who play at social distancing, the people on my timeline who made New Year’s posts…

You want me to be empathetic to someone who lacked the empathy to stay the fuck home and not kill someone’s grandma over a stupid social gathering. Ok. Being shamed over selfish behavior is a mild punishment.

“Shaming simply doesn’t work as a means of persuasion”

I live in a neighbourhood with an extremely mixed economic population. There are a lot of very very rich folks and a lot of homeless folks. I don’t yell at homeless folks in public. I don’t yell at essential workers. It’s not hard to tell the difference between someone who wears a $10,000 winter coat and someone whose…

Wtf is in the hipster gentrification ass coffee up in Jezebel? First Rich’s affluent ass article, now this???