I suspect it is more along the lines of the former. A certain narrative is being crafted for our viewing pleasure, and because the gimmick of the family is that we are all attractive, the emotional conflict has to come from outside. Other reality shows play up the unpleasantness of their stars. For the Kardashians,…

a legion of mostly young people content to overlook, ignore, or flat out not care about the hideous abuse he was accused of...

It is even worse.

Her brother is a convicted rapist.

Is Cardi B not paying her taxes? 

Asia Argento appears to be going for all the tried and true methods employed by men when exposed as rapists/abusers. What a mess of a situation. Then to throw Anthony Bourdain into the mix, as if that somehow diminishes her responsibility in this manner. 

And it is why I phrased it as a question and not a definitive statement. I am speculating.

Nicki Minaj comes off as whiny and bitter. And that last tweet is about as believable as someone claiming that their account was hacked. For someone who is supposedly the queen, she is incredibly insecure about her position.

Nah, that is a line of reasoning R. Kelly and other abusers have attempted to deploy and we don’t tolerate it. Let’s not ascribe it to Asia Argento’s repulsive behavior.

I am not denying that she experienced the trauma of rape. I am questioning why she became an active member (and leader) of a movement without acknowledging the hurt she inflicted on another person. It takes a great deal of dissonance on her part to ignore the hypocrisy of her stance. 

How is it a leap? She chose to jostle her way to the front of the movement knowing full well that she had this abusive history. What would make her seek prominence in a movement that did not seek out her leadership specifically?

I am also reminded that Asia Argento was one of the people who signed that letter demanding the release of Roman Polanski when he was arrested in 2009

What a disgusting person she is. She not only sexually assaulted the boy (now man), but it appears she’d been grooming the boy for some years. Then she wove the MeToo movement around herself in what now seems like some twisted effort to gain attention? I am so disheartened.

Well, she is alleged to be violent and abusive herself. Dare I say birds of a feather?

Date someone who is older than you and you might have some insight. Part of a relationship is growing together as a couple (and also doing some growing as an individual). She is not underage, and so rather than denying her agency as this article is attempting to do, you leave it up to her. Furthermore, given his…

Or, you know, Fan Bingbing was caught committing tax fraud. It’s not like rich people are always tripping over themselves to pay taxes. Even in liberal democracies tax evasion appears to be a common pastime of the rich.

But she is not. She is saying that people like you who claim to be centrist offer a specific position, and get people excited about those policy positions, as opposed to countering every policy position with tepid claims about being pragmatic. She is also not being a purist. She stated in this interview that she is a D…

Well, from Jeffries interview, it appears evangelicals betrayed many of the ideological positions the espouse when they chose to follow Reagan.

But it is an issue of cleanliness for the airline and for that infested aircraft in particular. While the airline may not be responsible for bedbugs getting into that space, it is their responsibility to detect and sterilize their aircraft of such parasites. 

We’ve opened it and, thank God, the world has not fallen into darkness. I was the first to put my whole head inside the sarcophagus... and here I stand before you...I am fine.