The general phenomenon, of which this is a specific illustration, is probably that anyone who has received prestige as an Ethics professor knows a million fancy ways to rationalize to themselves whatever they want to do anyway, under this or that alternative argument (and also a million fancy ways to condemn the…

She’s actually very down to earth and genuinely kind. I worked a children’s event she was hosting and she rolled up her sleeves and happily got dirty with the kids. Also extremely gracious to everyone-both celebs and the “crew”. I’ve been listening to her podcasts with Oprah and she seems to have her shit together.…

If he didn’t personally identify her and just described her “condition,” he didn’t violate HIPAA. If she hadn’t tweeted “Hey, that’s me!” no one would have known it was her.

Please win so our future generations will be hella confused.

Shtupping with Peers was the name of the reality show I pitched to Fox.

I’m not sure what you mean but I’m getting the growing impression that in an effort to be more accepting of people with mental illness some are acting as if it excuses everything.

I understand where you’re coming from. But I don’t know what you want.

That super sucks, but I can’t say that I blame you. The authors here don’t pay much attention to the commenters.

There’s also this weird kinja-thing now where you can’t even see the gray comments in threads even if you want to. If you click “show pending” there’s no “show more comments” for any threads. Giz/Jez doesn’t seem to care.

??? I think you misunderstood PumpkinSpies comment. They meant that the algorithms YouTube and other sites use are fucked up. “Oh you’re researching about how messed up Scientology is? Maybe you’d also like to know how fucked up Catholicism is.” This comment wasn’t negative about you in any way. You need to chillax.

I went to an all girls Catholic HS and revered the nuns. When I discovered the disparities- priests are given a stipend just for freaking existing, nuns have to earn their own money; priests can retire however they wish, nuns need to live with family or in a convent home - I went ballistic. My favorite nun lamented…

Oh, that’s always fun. My 5 yr old told me once he wished his dad and I would die so he could go live at the neighbors house. They have a tetherball pole.

falling in love, getting married, adopting a few dogs, and then everything falling apart due to some torrid affair

#notallgreys

Let’s start a petition for Donald to always be wearing the most luxurious of capes, because damn does he rock a cape.

Rape is still rape when the woman has had lots of consensual sex before. She could even have had lots of sex with you before, but the one time you forced yourself on her without her consent, it was still rape. That’s true of physical assault too. Say you dated Ronda Rousey. She’s taken many punches in her line of…

Seriously though, it seems even more telling that Dunham characterized his lines as a “massive insult of white women” rather than a fairly tame insult towards her character/show (and clueless hipsters like her) specifically.

Unrelated to the original post but I want to talk about Community. *dons tinfoil hat*

I bragged about dating my rapist.

I can find Bill Clinton to be a creep for the way he behaved towards Lewinsky while at the same time casting serious side-eye at Lewinsky’s changing her story after twenty years.