Yeah, that's what I thought. Also, even if the people doing away with it thought beforehand or now that it is degrading and wrong, they have to save face in front of a large segment of the population who holds virginity above all else. So, basically, regardless of their actual reasoning, they cannot tell the whole…

Maybe she would've been Kate, or maybe she would've been Diana... Who knows?

Can someone explain to me what is up with Monaco? Sounds interesting...

I find it hilarious that a Jez writer would be all "we live in the US, who cares about the royals?" when this site fawns over Kate M constantly... lOl....

I think that yes, if you take into account the fact that same sex marrige has been legal in MS for a decade, you can gather some data about it, but you couldn't compare the divorce rates to marriages and divorces in the 70s or 80s, which is what the author was doing here. You might compare it to same sex unions, but…

I thought you were gonna say it was because women are still expected to take care of everything.

I had a great-grandma who made her husband move out, but would still send him clean laundry and meals for the week. In the past, if rich people could afford it, they'd live separately, even if they stayed together. I know is not quite the same as what you're saying, but sometimes people did separate, even if divorce…

It would probably be healthier for everyone involved.

It sounds like he just wanted an excuse to propose ;)

I agree with you there. Also, the whole stigma surrounding divorced people, and the whole treating them like discarded goods or something. I dated a guy a decade my senior and fresh out of a divorce, and my mom was all like "so, you should find out for sure why he divorced" and making comments in a tone that was all…

I get what you're saying, but it is a bit different in this situation: She's not working as a volunteer for the clinic, so there is no liability issue, which is probably one of the reasons PP has a zero-contact policy. The other obvious reason would be that if you're volunteering on a daily basis, several hours a day,…

I think you're being unfair; I think it's always going to be hard to reconcile the image of someone you admire with that of a monster capable of raping... It isn't necessarily a slight to the victims, it is simply an admission of shock. What Whoopi did defending him tooth and nail was awful, this is just someone…

Can you please tell me how I get me some of that? Mr. Ahab can adapt to being a kept man

Yeah, I'm not sure he deserves to be too harshly criticized; if he knows the guy, feels close to him, then of course is hard to take a stand against him.. At least he didn't go on to blindly defend him like Whoopie :/

This is why "Race betrayal" is such a damaging concept....

I don't know much of his work history, but if he's worked in that industry for a while, he could've gotten the information from many sources or it could have come to his attention while working with the writing staff... Either way, good on him for calling it out...

From what I've read about this whole thing, it's also the fact that maybe those previous allegations were reported in detail only in local news, and it wasn't this whole, big national and international story the way it is now with the interwebs and smartphones. Furthermore, for some reason that escapes me, this time…

I'm not sure that that's totally fair, I mean... Justin Bieber anyone? Just cause he's mainstream famous doesn't mean that he's all that...

And the crowning jewel is: "I'm sitting here in front of a camera pretending like the pilot made me feel just as bad as when my mom beat me for coming out... But lemme stereotype all women by saying the lady was short with me because she was on her period".

True, but they were probably trying to give him a "graceful" out, maybe even donating some some for not being "fired"