I’ve seen people vaping in the library. The library!

At this point I’d rather travel with a smoker than a vaper any time. The problem with vaping is that people who would never be so rude as to smoke in your area have zero problem with vaping right into your face. It might smell like strawberry and chemicals but it’s still disgusting, and I still have asthma.

That sounds really great. All the young mothers I know have struggled with motherhood at first, but they’ve been able to figure it out together with friends or at mother’s groups. I don’t think I know any men who have been to a similar classes. I think we need to remember as well that men are typically more…

My granddad was a single father/primary caretaker of four children in the 1950s and 60s after he split with my grandmother. I didn’t realise how rare that was for that period until I was an adult and found out that a lot of people my mother’s age whose mothers left ended up being raised by orphanages and churches…

Yeah, I think Beyoncé is a terrible choice for this discussion, because the kids have already shown they remember her 10 years on. Bills, Bills, Bills is 20 years old. Halo is 11 years old. Obviously we can’t know for sure if people will remember them 50 years from now, but I’d say signs point to yes. 

I believe Amber, but this is a pretty harsh response to this comment. He said he wouldn’t be surprised if she was lying, not that she definitely was. False accusations of DV aren’t common in the general population, but they are common among female abusers of male victims. Female abusers aren’t as common as men, but…

Most women I know will take a cab or Uber home late at night for safety reasons, it doesn’t really have anything to do with how easy it is to navigate the city by walking or public transport. Plus, not all cities have public transport that runs all night. 

Stefani is Gaga’s birth name 

It’s just her real name. Stefani Germanotta.

Same for the artists and musicians I know. I think the social media atmosphere amplifies the impact of negative critique. Once upon a time if you couldn’t handle negative reviews you could just not read the media reviews came in, but now social media delivers them directly to you, and your fans are usually so mad…

It never felt like they were just trying to force women to be on trend or anything, either. Often they were making fun of fashion itself, and how stupid it can be. 

I don’t know, I just had a look and they still don’t seem that offensive to me. Fashion can be ridiculous, so they make fun of it. 

Yes, either because they deserve better or, when they’re gloriously crazy, because they feel that the madness deserves to be acknowledged — an affectionate kind of roast. I remember feeling like they really loved some of the people they roasted the hardest because at least they were wearing something distinctive and…

I haven’t read GFY in a long time, but my memory is that they were very affectionate towards a lot of ugly clothes and the people who wear them, and genuinely loved some of them. I remember them being surprisingly warm for a blog with such a catty premise, and it always felt like the target of criticism was the fashion…

His mum is also a widow and I’m guessing he is the one paying the bulk of the bills given a quick google told me she’s a school nurse. What an asshole, right?

It seems like she had a fair bit of involvement on this album, a lot of the songs are clearly autobiographical. Obviously she worked with a team but this definitely isn’t a case where the singer flits in and out of the studio. https://www.npr.org/2019/02/09/691376280/thank-u-text-ariana-grandes-collaborators-break-down…

There are a lot of different kinds of true crime, so I think it’s a bit broad to write off the genre as a whole. There are definitely sensationalist examples, but there are also sensitive works like Dave Cullen’s Columbine or Robert Kolker’s Lost Girls that provide a useful examination of social forces that…

I think there’s just not really a viable contingency plan when your job requires public visibility. It sucks, but all you can really do is put pressure on prominent people not to be jerks.

If she’s a staff writer the choice about whether her email was public would be made by her publication, but typically most journalists do have public email addresses because they’re required to get tips from readers.

“I have better things to do” is the perfect description of his act. I saw him at the Melbourne comedy festival a few years back and he clearly hadn’t prepared anything. He was funny eventually but the first fifteen minutes or so were excruciating.