I disagree. The story is messy, and the reporting is messy. Take this piece of writing, for example, and tell me if you understand it:

Been scouring the JC Penny page for that dress. Not out yet, I should have checked the release date. I’m pre-bummed because I know it will fly off the shelves before I can get it.

Every now and again I get a wakeup call about current grooming standards, and this felt like one :-)

I find this woman’s features, voice, and whole persona to be so captivating that I would buy anything from her. I never feel this way about celebrities. She is so stunning. Also, that dress is beyond adorable.

I also have to say that dropping from mega-multi-millionnaire to multi-millionnaire is not a tragedy I can be concerned about.

How can you tell she didn’t get a manicure? She looks clean and trim to me, so I’m curious what you see. My standards may be low.

But... we’re not talking about abortion or “late term” abortion — we’re talking about the actual birth, on the day of delivery, in a medical setting (not some criminal cutting the infant out against the woman’s will). Are we really saying that if a woman will not or cannot make the safer choice, doctors should let the…

You’re harming the pro-choice movement by arguing that, on delivery day, the baby is merely a parasite on the mom’s organs.

When... when are pants going to make a comeback?

The latter part of what you say is... a contradiction?

There should be a German word for that feeling of acknowledgement that something good is taking place, but very fucking belatedly. I can’t say “I’m happy about this,” so I need something like “I’m bitterly approving with resentment and continued ire.”

I also want to know!

I would have appreciated an independent assessment of Goldberg’s inaccuracies, but this article only presents Grigoriadis’s point of view, and it offers no quotes from the book to defend it. It merely states that Grigoriadis addressed what Goldberg accused her of not addressing, but it would have been great to see…

You must be a true optimist!

“Factual feelings”?

Good points

True, but did she slut-shame? She said “there’s nothing wrong with being a ho,” but that it’s not feminist. Which... doesn’t seem all that wrong to me, unless we are determined to think that “ho” cannot be meant in a neutral / positive way.

I know you’re a troll, but the causality goes the other way in the US. Poverty —> weight gain. There are myriad economic and psychological and metabolic reasons for it, which - since you are so penetrated by the research spirit - are available for you to discover online.

Oh I said something Kara Brown didn’t like. It’s been a while. Glad you see me! Something weird is going on with this site.

Hey Vodka, do you see this comment? I know I’m grey, but it looks like I might be straight-up invisible now.