Works on me every time ;)

Leslie Van Houten’s case puts the lie to any objectivity in the American justice system. She is in prison only because she is infamously associated with Charles Manson and the Manson Family killings. Reading her history objectively, she should have been released decades ago. Any other inmate (and thousands who have…

And I thought that the people who insist on feeding the bears up here where I live were stupid ... but then I just read an article in last month’s National Geographic about hand-feeding tiger sharks in the Bahamas - on purpose!

Gotye’s Bronte. I have to be very careful about my mood when I listen to this. Catch me at the wrong moment and I am reduced to a puddle of tears and can’t stop sobbing, much like the first time I heard Wuthering Heights (and most times since). The video is gorgeous and heartbreaking.

Same, if you live near a ski mountain like I do, and morons go out of bounds and die after forcing search and rescue to risk their lives looking for them. Actually, no, died in pain, realizing they wasted their lives doing something truly pointless.

It takes much more than a teenager in his mom’s basement to get me down, but I do appreciate the support. When they begin to resort to clichéd hyberbole, you know that they have no real insight.

Wow. You really are 15. I suspected as much.

Yes. Yes, she has. We all have. Every single one of us. Because we don't know which one of you is The One.

I think watching Kim on RHOBH it was apparent that underlying her substance abuse were her borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. She truly is a damaged and damaging human being, and her problems go far beyond just alcohol or drugs. She is very intelligent and manipulative and has all the ‘recovery lingo’…

As a woman who was literally raped with a penis, I think you are confused on the concept of 'rape'. No sympathy.

That is a remark by a lazy and juvenile mind, which just confirms everything I already assumed.

Since when is expressing an opinion, no matter how stridently I might do so, ‘bullying’? I didn’t tell anyone to shut up, I didn’t say she shouldn’t say what she thinks - I did say that I thought she was pretty lame for handling the situation the way she did. I thought it was cowardly. That’s an opinion - it’s not…

You must have been a champion bully back in the day.

Why do you assume the publicist was male? I got a ‘female’ vibe for the publicist from the piece - I didn’t catch a reference to gender and I can’t be bothered to check. Also, victim blaming assumes that there was a victim present - I refuse to cast her in the role of victim, even if she self-identifies as one. Not…

First off, girl bits, thanks. Second, I’m older than you. Third, been a feminist longer than you’ve been alive. Fourth, child rape survivor, teen rape survivor, adult rape survivor, sexual harassment not-victim. There isn’t any experience a woman can have that I haven’t been there, done that, so maybe find out who…

First, she was in a hotel lobby, in the middle of the afternoon. Hardly a back alley at 4 in the morning. Second, the publicist for the band was present. Not very good PR to allow the band to go Cosby on a female journalist in public in the middle of a hotel lobby. So, cool your jets. She was in no imminent danger…

Sad that instead of addressing the larger issue, you resort to language of the elementary school yard to appeal to the Jezzie hivemind for support/approval. How mean girl of you.

You are absolutely correct - my initial post did not open a door to reasonable conversation. I had read a few different articles before I got to the Jezzie one, all along the same lines, which to my point of view did not hold this young woman accountable for any action she might have taken at the time to hold this…

I am not ‘letting him off the hook’ as you claim. She had every opportunity to report on his abhorrent behavior and I think it would have made a much more powerful story if she had written the piece focusing not on herself, but on the behavior of the publicist (enabling and apologetic), his bandmate (he seemed to…

I actually detest Camille Paglia, but I do agree that she could and should have removed herself from the situation or, which actually would have made a much better and more objective story about sexual harassment and female music journalists, asked that enabling publicist to reign in his/her client. THAT would have…