You seem to be assuming that dating Leonardo De Caprio is somehow bad for these women. As far as I know, none of the women he has dated has said the relationship was a negative experience for them. If someone is “choosing” something that actually harms them, then it’s worth talking about the conditions that led them…

In the last couple of weeks there have been three posts on Jezebel trashing De Caprio for dating and breaking up with an adult woman who is much younger than him. There has been one completely neutral newsy post about Haddish and Spears allegedly abusing children for the sake of comedy. Let’s not pretend the…

As someone who has tried both and only succeeded at one, law is not objectively more difficult than acting.

So in your opinion, what would have been the right thing for Vogue to do here? Not feature her at all because she didn’t want to have her deformities photographed? Say, “Sorry, Linda, either we get to show all of that or you don’t get to be in our magazine?” Or should they have tried to pressure her during the…

Also, the article linked to substantiate the claim about rumors of infidelity has absolutely no mention of Shakira or Gerard (not Gerald) Piqué or infidelity, as far as I can tell. They’ve pretty much just given up here, haven’t they?

Exactly. Which is why the entire premise of this article -- that Depp’s team is claiming “mutual abuse” -- is false. They are claiming that she abused him, and any violence he engaged in was simply in self defense. The claims of “mutual abuse” come from people who are doubting his story just as much as they are…

Your claim that Depp’s team has been emphasizing the idea of “mutual abuse” is simply false. It would be stupid and counterproductive for them to do that, since the whole trial is about whether Heard defamed Depp when she implied that he physically abused her. If Depp’s team characterized the relationship as one of…

I think Bettany probably believed at the time that Depp was being seriously physically abused by Heard, so I give him a pass on this. If I believe my friend is in an abusive relationship, I’m probably not going to tone police the rage they’re expressing, no matter how lurid it may be.

Warren Buffet, through his foundation, has donated over $400 million to Planned Parenthood. In total, he has donated over $1.5 billion to improving access to abortion. In material terms, he has been the leading provider of abortion access to impoverished women in America.He has probably enabled millions of women to…

It’s amazing how a physical assault directed at a man becomes all about a woman and her effing feelings.

Oh please. People are acting like this joke was horrible and beyond the pale when it was really so completely mild. It was barely even a jab. It was a dumb hacky joke about how she could play a bald character because she’s bald. It wasn’t insinuating that she is ugly or deformed for being bald.

Making this about the “scrutiny tall women face” seems a little ridiculous. Tall women are not considered unattractive by conventional standards. Short men are. There are a million “Tom Cruise is short” jokes out there. Not that many “Zendaya is tall” jokes that I’ve seen.

I really doubt Djokovic was trying to shade Biles with that comment. Politifact agrees with me, for whatever that’s worth:

Can we maybe also acknowledge how the deification of athletes like Biles by some in the media (including on this site) may contribute to the immense weight of expectations? For a relatively young person to constantly hear herself described as some kind of superhuman and a standard-bearer for black women athletes, for…

Why do you say Brandon’s proposal was all about him?

They also surveyed a random sample of the co-author pairs they identified as being in a mentor-protege relationship, to check whether they actually had this relationship. Out of the purported proteges who responded to the survey, a pretty large proportion (over 80%) agreed that they had received mentoring of some form…

The authors of the study explicitly state that examining the reason why gender differential exists is beyond the scope of their paper. Their data shows that female proteges benefit more from male than female mentors. This may well be because patriarchal structures in academia give male scholars higher status, and this…

The linked story says absolutely nothing about her being pushed out of STEM or not being encouraged to enter, so it’s a bit weird that this post talks about her plan to quit science in those terms. I mean, you go on to mention the actual reason she almost quit, which is that she didn’t like having to focus minutely on…

Blaming every single Chinese person, as opposed to the Chinese government, is not a “rational reaction”.

That is not how polling works. “Only 1994" people is actually an adequate sample size, with a 2% margin of error, provided that the sample was random.