Naming a record label that way and having that background...I only remember her bolstering the label in her music videos and given the history that I didn't know that was a very questionable thing to do. I disliked it even then. And I thought Ja Rule looked absolutely ridiculous.

Considering he beat a man until he was blind in a racial assault your comment makes me a bit uncomfortable.

Thanks for the info, I didn't know about that background story.

You keep digging your own grave. Nice choice of words there.

"Um, no. Adopted children and step children are not the same thing."

Well, there are lots of people who have done well without the 'technically good' vocal qualities or dancing skills. Neither Dylan nor Cohen are terribly good at either.

Um, yes. Depending on individual family dynamics I wager there would be a lot of people calling you a complete asshole for suggesting their stepchildren are not their children or stepparents not their parents.

I just looked it up and I didn't realize Farrow also had twin sons from her previous marriage that never seem to be mentioned.

Haha. That never really hindered anyone's career.

They were as much his or not his as Soon-Yi. From that perspective, Ronan was his only child as he was his only biological child.

Isn't he missing three of the children?

The complete dissolution of Ashanti's career is interesting. How did this happen?

I thought how seriously tone deaf could this man and his team of lawyers be until I remembered that he is used to getting away with this kind of thing.

My mother was diagnosed when I was two and died when I was six. Cancer is ugly, it's gross and senseless. There is no good lesson or camera memorials or letters to be opened later on. My mother needed someone to blame so she chose my teenage brother.

Oops, I didn't see the book was referenced several times by the other commenters. Good bunch of people!

There is a great book by Barbara Ehrenreich about this

I have PCOS as well (well, apparently depending on what doctor I'm talking to...)

German.

In my language that game is inexplicably named 'Journey to Jerusalem'

But the only people who would make that argument to start with are MRAs or people internalizing misogynist culture. There are things that are not comparable to each other because the power dynamics of male and female gender relations make it impossible.