“If I could go back and have a talk with my younger self I’d tell her to go through the therapy I have since then, so that I could understand the confused post-traumatic state that I was in - or if therapy was not available to me or anyone in my situation - to seek help, and speak as openly and honestly as possible…

Is that eight months of rent on a nice ranch house and yard? Haha, no. Maybe four months. The housing crisis in California is real. 

“We’re told Pete has reached out to those in his circle, including colleagues asking for help, but at the same time putting up a wall and even accusing them of ignoring his pain.”

I’ve been a supporter of Mr. Avenatti, but I take charges like these seriously. The jollies I get from watching Avenatti taunt the thin-skinned orange baby do not usurp my values and my decency. Therefore, I support a thorough investigation of these allegations followed by the appropriate course of action.

Most of Jezebel’s readers are too young to remember him much (if at all), but I have to say that Laura Jane Grace reminds me a lot of Joe Strummer — musically and activist-wise. Sonically I hear it and there’s also a plainspoken earnestness to their honesty both when they sing and when they speak/spoke.

I kept seeing signs that said “#jobsnotmobs Vote Republican” so I guess we’re gonna get rid of jobs and just be unruly mobs roaming the land? Whatev, as long as my mob has a health plan.

I do have kids but my husband and I both struggle to suppress the anger that was instilled in us as kids when we were too little to fight back. It does come out. The one thing nobody ever tells you about parenting (although of course it’s obvious, in retrospect) is that when you imagine yourself as a parent you…

I am one of those people for whom “I was spanked regularly and turned out fine!!” rings very true, although I came to terms a long time ago with the fact that my parents aren’t good people for many, many reasons. (I turned out fine DESPITE my parents.) Spanking is pretty low on that list of reasons, with the caveat…

I always read about people being upset with family members who are trump supporters, but I have the opposite problem: My dad had pretty major surgery this week and my mom had to travel this weekend, so I’m visiting to help him out while she’s gone. My parents are old school hippies and pretty progressive, so all my…

Don’t forget that you will get nominated for an Oscar in the mean time.

This is why the climate is so scary for men. You can have five women come out of nowhere and accuse you of stuff you did, and maybe because of the whims of the news cycle, people take it seriously for a little bit, and you have to lower your profile for a while before your fellow mediocrities welcome you back into the…

The first seasons of this show were fantastic: I laughed out loud, marveled at Jim Parsons, and cared about the characters. Around season 5 it sucked: the characters got overly caricatured, the jokes fell into a stale rhythm and the plot twists were anything but.....yes, Big Bang Theory, it is time for you to go.

BF and the BBC novels play with President Romana. She’s pretty much the villain in the novels. And they go that route in the animated McGann version of Shada. But she has never appeared as such on television or on R4X broadcasts and us license fee payers shouldn’t be dependent on buying merchandise for such…

Say it with me now: abortions happened in this country long before Roe v Wade and will continue to happen even if abortion becomes illegal. Abortion can never be ended*, just made more dangerous, deadly, and expensive.

I’ve heard my bosses mother say those words but she never translated it.

Speaking as a Jewish woman...go fuck yourself, Roseanne. Israel has enough racial issues without your shit added to it.

Anyone on the fence about having kids? Or maybe you used to be on the fence but finally made a decision one way or the other? How did you make a decision, and are you happy with the outcome so far?

I rarely eat fast food, but on road trips I’ll grab In-and-Out. It’s better than most, but more importantly they actually treat and pay their employees really well.

I work in reality tv, in post-production, and I say that exact phrase ALL. THE. TIME. I’m usually having a frustrated imaginary hypothetical conversation with my field producer. So often, the field will, either intentionally or unintentionally, tell my bosses about something that happened off camera,and that…