Exactly! I just had this same convo with another commenter. Like, it's not up to the author to Jez to tell you what to feel about this.
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Ya gotta lol at the people that are all like "I don't like this because it doesn't tell me how I should react to it."
Unlike many commenters, I actually like that Jezebel doesn't tell you what you are supposed to take away from this. It leaves it open to interpretation.
One person is speaking out from a horrible, abusive childhood memory, one in which she ended up triumphing over the abusive tyrant in her life. How bout taking away a little horror that adults are so desensitized to their actions around kids? Or realizing that adults usually recreate scenarios they grew up with -…
Thanks! For a all those asking, this was just a scene from my life. Life is complicated, and for a 12 year old and her 10 year old brother trapped with your mom's abusive boyfriend, you fight back how you can. I'm not going to rewrite what happened so that I made all the right decisions and tell my friend to not take…
Obviously I can't speak to the authors intent (or possible lack thereof) but does everything have to have one? Is it possible that it is just an anecdote, not meant to elicit any particular response?
So almost everyone else seems to be missing that she was clearly being abused by her mother's boyfriend or husband?
Sorry, but I cheered at this article. This girl is in a situation where it is clear she is being emotionally violated, and based on the tone of the article it would not be surprising to me if it went beyond that. She is not being protected or advocated for by her mother, and it seems like she is the oldest sibling. …
I don't think you're supposed to be laughing along with her. I wasn't. It's a child who was put in a painful situation that she was helpless to change, and she reacted by seizing a little bit of power back. It was a messed-up way to do it, but so was the whole situation. She was a kid doing her best in a fucked up…
I feel sorry for her. When I hear people like this bashing on others I think how much self-loathing you must have for yourself that you're projecting on to other people. People like her make me think that internally she lives an angry miserable life
When I lost the most weight was when I loved my body. I decided that I wanted to take care of it and head off issues that I know my mom has before I got them myself. When someone shamed me, it made it worse, not better. This seems so straightforward, and I feel like it's mentioned every time this topic comes up but…
I think this whole animal paintings thing is a lovely insight into how he's basically an overgrown child with a simple understanding of the impact of everything that happened while he was president, being a puppet controlled by others. Now they've clipped the strings and he's run to the nearest shiny object.
Housing First* programs are about housing support. It is not possible to take a 60 year old man who drinks mouthwash and has a list of behaviourial and mental disabilities as long as my arm to move into an apartment and succeed. This will fail.
I'm a Hawaii resident and the homeless problem is overwhelming. There are many unofficial shelters and "secret" refuges, but there are still homeless who are too violent and unstable to stay in these places. Part of the problem—and the motivation for the one way tickets—is that some of our homeless population just…
This is exactly the attitude that keeps pedophilia alive and harmful. If we put so much effort into making pedophiles feel "wrong and sick", instead of admitting that this is a real social problem and putting that energy into researching effective interventions and harm reduction strategies, we are almost guaranteeing…
There's a difference between pedophilia and child rape. Refusing to treat pedophilia, and ostracizing pedophiles so that they have no resources, leads to child rape. I don't know what a good solution is, but the one we currently have in place in the US, which you've articulated pretty directly, doesn't help anyone.
This is sweet, but did they really have to gun down his parents first?
No. Doing whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it is called sociopathy, not feminism.
breaking down structural barriers to equality in political, economic, and social spheres for all women, regardless of race, class, orientation, etc — it's not just 'doing whatever the fuck I want, when I want!' that's pretty frothy, surface, pseudo-feminism.