I guess Ramona is a private individual, and if she didn’t sign anything to use her likeness then she might have a case here? But maybe because it’s based on the New York Magazine article it’s fine? Idk, sure they must have saw this coming somehow.

Why should Gwyneth care? I mean - no reason not to love Dakota. She’s remarried, it’s been a long time, and they like to very actively co-parent and they’re both mega rich and independently succesful. Plus, Dakota, like Gwynnie, is a child of Hollywood. Everyone’s happy and it’s all good. I would do the same. Also -…

All day I’ve been thinking about how in the 90s, we loved her a bit reluctantly. She over shared and made that her brand long before it was socially acceptable. Do you think Cat Marnell would have received a $500,000 book advance 20 years later if Elizabeth Wurtzel had never existed? I doubt it. 

The problem is that that is the current official punishment, and is rarely actually applied. Hopefully this will change, given the global rise of the #metoo movement, but I’m not really holding my breath.

Here’s the video from Apostrophe, the show in which Matzneff was confronted by Denise Bonbardier, a Canadian writer who called him out on his bullshit. It’s in French, but it’s not hard to figure out what’s going on.

Having a kid doesn’t mean you’ve grown up. I say this having two kids - But seeing many parents who are completely immature 

I read it during one of my “I don’t have bipolar, these people don’t know what they’re talking about. lots of people don’t sleep for 72 hours and have the best ideas and crash because they’re just tired!” phases. admittedly, it was after I watched the movie and wanted to know more about the person behind the book -…

In 2000 when I was a 21 year old suffering from severe depression I read Prozac Nation and it hit me so hard. I felt like there was someone else like me who understood what it felt like to have this monster smashing around in my head. I know she had some problematic views, and that many felt the book was…

I guess the question is how frequently such “infractions” are prosecuted.  In the U.S. it’s black and white.  14?  Yeah, rape.  France?  Who knows.

I think part of what is most alarming here is how child rape is classified in France. In many countries with a defined age of consent, the victim of the crime does not have to press charges against the rapist. You were caught having sex with a 12 year old, and the prosecuting office can automatically charge you with a…

That movement challenged authority and “fought against imperialism, capitalism, racism, sexism and homophobia.” At the same time, it argued for “[liberating] children from the domination of their parents and allow[ing] them to be full, sexual beings.” Matzneff, of course, was among those advocating for such…

She was a vain and probably selfish person, but I don’t think that puts her in a league with J.D. Salinger or Ted Hughes, let alone Norman Mailer. The reaction to her “sins” has always been incredibly gendered.

She will be missed, she was such an out and proud voice for mental illness. Refusing to be defined by her diagnosis. And I think that carried through to her cancer. 

I’ll give you a better one.

There is, of course a perfect Yiddish expression for this Netanyahu tweet:

When you can’t get Bibi onboard with an action against Iran, you done fucked up. Hey, does that mean Israel is one of the “they” that is “allowing” Americans to be attacked? Interesting.

The showerhead thing is probably his own cheap properties. In any tall building, you need a pumping system to get water to the top.  If you’ve ever been in an upper floor of a hotel and had a weak shower, you know what I’m talking about.  He’s been convinced it’s due to EPA restrictions on water fixtures (probably by…

The Christianity Today takedown may actually have some lasting electoral consequence. Not like some kind of mass exodus, but more than, say, impeachment or the Mueller Report could have.

It’s very strange to me that in December 2019 some people are starting to condemn Trump’s behavior for the first time. Were you in a coma?

I’m now imagining a scene at my evangelical MIL’s house: she is sitting in silence on the couch while her fourth husband is ranting about how that publication will no longer darken their mailbox in any form because of some stupid Deplorable reasoning I can’t wrap my head around. Something about how they heard Goody…