This really wasn't a funny story. I don't know why it was treated like it was.

I agree. Their coverage of this was very problematic and mean spirited.

Honestly I’m disappointed in Jezebel that you continue to exploit an adoptive, disabled child who’s been through shit by willingly not following up on the full story, and instead going with the Daily Mail clickbait. There were enough legit sources of info in the comment sections last time that you can’t claim…

So in light of this news, maybe a different header image would be appropriate? This is a real young woman, not a fictional film villain. 

There’s something vaguely therapy shaming about that headline, me thinks.

Therapy is GREAT and everybody should have a chance at speaking with a thoughtful, intelligent empathetic counselor at one point in their life, especially during a crisis. 

Seeing a psychologist to recover from a divorce is relatable, helpful, and the opposite of the kind of thing I expect to hear on Howard Stern’s show.

It’s a joke, as the “pumpkin seed story” was probably the freakiest poop story you’ve ever heard. As I recall, a lady ate one or two pounds of pumpkin seeds, and they came out . . . all at once, along with everything else that was backed in behind it.

Still no scarier Jez story than the pumpkin seed story.

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Is “chest discomfort” the way a political campaign says “chest pain”...?

I love Bernie, voted for him in the 2016 primaries, switched to Hillary in the general.

Why link to the horrible Daily Mail when there are not-shitty publications with more thoughtful coverage?

When you give him attention by replying to his comments you make him cum. Just remember that, Good Admiral, Sir.

I think your handling of this story is, at best, irresponsible. It is a bad idea to promote the idea that adopted kids are sometimes unlovable/do something to justify their re-abandonment/etc. Don’t adopt a CHILD from an international country if you’re not prepared to deal with intense trauma (which can include…

I mean who the fuck knows what’s going on here, but of all the attempts to unravel this when it first came up, the most plausible to me seemed to be that she wasn’t 8 when she was adopted, but nor was she an adult, and she was actually still a teenager when the original family abandoned her. So you know, maybe she is…

Natalia has some pictures floating out there with the Mans you will clearly see that they took in a child and are now looking after a young adult. Her prior family abandoned a child.

Wasn’t the SVU episode about a girl who aged out of the foster system and was caught going to middle school or something?

Her office’s mishandling of the Green New Deal largely discredited it, I get that she’s young and she’s from NYC but I feel like the media (on both the left and the right) is attributing far, far too much to AOC. 

Did no one smoke in high school and middle school where you’re from?

Waiting to use “centrist” until the third paragraph and eschewing “neoliberal” entirely shows amazing restraint. Good job. Maybe someday you’ll be a writer.