I’m sharing a book with you that I wish I’d learned about years ago: “Why does he do that? Inside the mind of angry and controlling men” by Lundy Bancroft. My parents fought a lot, generally a lot of low-value “bickering”... and I didn’t see or understand the control behind it. I knew I didn’t want that in a…

Nope, not talking out of your ass. There is pretty much no way this was a one-off thing, domestic abuse whether verbal, emotional or physical usually has a progression of increasing intensity/frequency, with an unhealthy baseline that has become “acceptable” that should NOT be. Even the fact of Maddox getting involved…

Even without hitting, a father with the ups & downs from alcohol and anger issues causes damage that goes very deep, especially if the family excuses/rationalizes his outbursts, and denies their own reality by believing how others see dad, as a great charming guy. I’ve been there and it wasn’t til my 40s that I…

I hadn’t seen that tweet before & have to admit I’m really on the fence about it. It was related to “teen mom” Farah Abraham’s (apparently paid) sex tape.

Speaking from personal (childhood) experience, the most “successful” abusers are the ones who everyone else thinks are “great”, but behind closed doors it’s another story. Whether verbal/physical/emotional, it’s all the same.

You make a good point. It’s mind-boggling that it was written in the first place, and then made it to tape...yet the fact they DID see that it was objectionable & inappropriate and removed it is a small/big deal.

Yes he is absolutely accountable, it’s ridiculous how people paint him like some helpless creature with no self-will.

That pic demonstrates what Pitt is really like I think - kind of empty, vacuous, unless he has a female to play off/morph into. His personal style changes with every woman he’s with, even Juliette Lewis, despite the fact that she was only 16 and he was a grown man of 26.

I thought your observation was interesting, and took another look at the article. That phrase doesn’t seem like navel-gazing, it immediately followed a key quote: “We are so happy to see a campus movement beginning on this crucial issue and led by women,” Gold said.

That link....ugh. It’s disappointing this isn’t well known, and he coasts on the ‘sweet awkward guy’ act. It says a lot about how he views women, which is entirely separate from the fact that the women agreed to it. That he continues to circle around Rih while she must know something about his harem...that has aspects…

Well on the one hand, we could say the women must be ok with it, so no big deal. But that’s a very flimsy rationale. Because on the other hand, he has to be ok with the idea of it to begin with...it IS sleazy, and and it’s a quick step from sleazy to also realizing it can be seen as degrading, disrespectful,…

@Clover There’s irony that you wrote this: “Parker is in a precarious position now, forced to explain the charge while promoting a project whose subject matter is unrelated.”

Pool events were over, finished Saturday with Lochte’s relay gold. Celebration hijinx are plausible... (blow, sex worker rumor, etc). Sketchy part of town? “meh, we’re 4 Olympic athletes in a taxi, we’ll be fine”

Basically in an effort to be hip with the current uses of small-scale decorative art, this massive clothing chain copied the artwork of independent artists, instead of either paying to license art or paying someone to create new designs for them.