This might be the only time I will ever agree with Wendy Williams. 

The two aren’t mutually exclusive though? Ask anyone who grew up with an abusive parent. You can genuinely love and miss someone for the good times you shared while still experiencing damage from the abuse. And yes, being left a young widow unable to date because your much-older husband molded your ideal of love to…

Love SNS? Ever wish it was available 24/7? A long long time ago, jezebel (and all the gawker blogs) had an openthread that was always available for just general chatting. This was back in the days when the comments were actually moderated. It was just a scrolling page of comments, nothing fancy. Jezebel’s was called Gr…

Rich people: “Everything should be earned on merit! But legacy admissions are different because that impacts my family.”

#divorce2019

And what is the point of having him go to Rehab to get better after showing once and for all that he is irredeemable?

If someone can give me a period drama of pre-war rock and roll Cambodia, I'd give them all my goddamn money.

Maybe it’s because we’re bored with rehashing European history when there are whole continents of fascinating stories.

Period dramas are just about wealthy, aristocratic people and the ‘problem’ of marriageability. Jane Austen is kind of the gold standard here, but no amount of tepid irony saves her work from eventually devolving into tales of happily-ever-after marital bliss for fancy ladies. This is in spite of the fact that she…

Well I for one think the Blue Lagoon children really grew up nicely.

This doesn’t surprise me. Cycles of abuse are self-perpetuating. I’m surprised more people aren’t pointing out how distressingly similar the details of this assault are to her allegation against Weinstein: the grooming and isolating of the victim, providing alcohol before attacking etc. It’s infuriating to think…

Give yourself permission to do stuff like the bath. Say you’re doing it, go in there and lock the fucking door. Force him to deal if he won’t come along willingly. This whole scenario will teach him how parenting is going to be and I promise you, this is the hill to die on.

My husband has not been doing his part for our 2-month old and I am about to murder him, but we have a dinner reservation for our first post baby date night that’s been on the books for like four months. I would rather take a bath and read a book that has nothing to do with parenting for two hours, but hey. At least I…

“This is the photo of Aretha Franklin and Pattie Labelle we intended to publish”

One of my favorite Aretha performances was at Divas Live in 1998 where she just bulldozes through “Natural Woman” making some other enormously talented women look like her back-up singers.

Four words: Wrinkly old man testicles. Wrinkly. Old. Man. Testicles.

Oh, I doubt I’d ever go back on it. The copper iud is much less maintenance, much less expense, and I never have to worry about a pharmacist denying my prescription (something that happened not infrequently). But this is all useful information that should be more available and that doctors really ought to be familiar…