NARCONON was never about getting people off drugs. I suspect that Hubbard saw the kind of money Synanon was bringing in and wanted a piece of it. If the patient got off of drugs, well that was just a happy coincidence. Also NARCONON was a way to get fragile people conditioned into accepting scientology.

I'm assuming literally everyone who read this.

So... Who's going to draw notice to the parallels with Scientology?

I get that people are offended but calling RuPaul transphobic is a bit much. His whole life has been dedicated to bringing the LGBT community forward. So now because some people feel he isn't as PC as they feel he should be, he's transphobic?

Quite frankly: I like you, but you are wrong. You do not own this terminology. Any man who dresses in women's clothes—and that is what a drag queen is—faces bigotry. RuPaul can talk about that experience as much as she wants, in whatever terminology she wants. You do not own the terminology. You do not own the humor…

"Shithead"

Since these children will be dealing with the results of climate change:

A frank one?

I think that that calling him a cliché invokes the "older man trades in wife for younger model" narrative. I think that narrative is demeaning because it seems to presumes that women can be traded like pokemon cards. In assuming that the younger woman is something the man "traded for," it makes her his commodity and…

I used to think it was feminist. Now I'm mostly just peeved that it calls itself feminist, but perpetuates rampantly anti-woman concepts.

You go ahead and keep devaluing women's roles to that of a pawn to be traded in for. Hope you feel great about your contribution to feminism today.

There's a LOT to unpack in that comment. The assumption that a May/December is necessarily a leverage of resources to acquire a younger model is really offensive and I encourage you to think further on that.

Erasing Heard's agency from the narrative reinforces stigmatization (by way of calling it "cliche") and devaluation of women's choices.

Right. Which Amber Heard did, as much as Johnny Depp. Saying that he's "falling into the same behavior he mocked in others" and losing regard for him because he entered into a mutual, consensual adult relationship does not acknowledge her agency in entering the relationship. It's a patriarchal narrative.

In the glory days, a copywriter would proudly say "copywriter." These bros are obviously pretending to be now-struggling, later-Letheming novelists. when in fact they are non-struggling copywriters (even if they are struggling "on the side").

And so rock 'n' roll. This guy really knows what appeals to us youth.

I'm 3 minutes in and I keep thinking it will get better. I have lost faith that it will. I need Jesus to save this.

"CREATIVE POLYGLOT WEDS CULTURAL PHENOMENON IN STUNNING CEREMONY ATTENDED BY GEOGRAPHICALLY NAMED INFANT." This is the zenith of English prose.

Autocorrect thought that was what I meant to type, too ...

That's not kindergarten, that's the Pantheon.