My subconscious is apparently stuck somewhere in the mid nineties, because every time I see ‘TLC’ in Jez headlines, I automatically think of Lisa Left Eye and the girls giving important advice about scrubs and waterfalls.

I think you just answered your own question.

What bugged me most was the ultra-passive voice about “things that happened” — it was never ever “bad things our brother did” or “the stupendously negligent way in which our parents tried to sweep it under the rug.” Throw in the husband’s haircuts and their professed ignorance about all things baby (really? a pregnant…

My understanding is that they did a little preaching at the heathen Catholics in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala (notably, all places people like to visit rather than places undergoing huge humanitarian crises) and a lot of vacationing on other people’s donated dime.

...and one kid to do the dishes

I feel genuinely bad for Jill and Jessa, who were raised in what essentially amounts to a cult and had their traumatic childhood experiences outed to the world without their consent.

‘Whoa, where did that come from, what’s that about,’

Is there a Who Can Be The Worst contest going on that nobody told me about? It would explain sooo much.

They will sail into the West, they’re saga in this Age of the Earth having been fulfilled.

I’ve unfriended at least one person over continued requests to make the mermaid tail blanket. If people want one that badly they need to either learn to knit/crochet or just buy one.

The problem with those lovely cream colored chunky blankets is that if I got one, it would never be washed and therefore would get Dog hair and cat hair and pizza sauce and cat pee and Chinese food sauce, and pot sticker sauce, and tikka masala sauce and white wine and red wine and vomit and period blood all over it…

Also that guy needs to take off his pants and crawl under the blanket not use it as a cape. THIS IS NOT A GAME, HANDSOME MAN.

“Yes, I do extreme “strobing” before a long winter’s nap. Contouring is strictly for sunbathing”.

No one wants your respect, pal. It’s an utterly meaningless prize from an utterly meaningless person.

“You’re free to be reckless with your associations.”

Obviously, many, many, many people - at Kink and elsewhere - witnessed this stuff, knew what he really was. Didn’t care until Stoya went public.

Nicki Blue’s account of how she tried to tell people is heartbreaking. I mean, all the stories are, of course. Heartbreaking and enraging.

Unless you’ve got an actual doctoral degree in Psychology, stick to internet self-diagnosis, please. Maybe you’re somewhere on the asshole spectrum? Better WebMD it to make sure.

Sex workers deserve the same respect and safety from harm and abuse as any other human being does.

I know an actress who was doing an off-Broadway show and the lead actor was abusive, at one point saying he wanted to slice her eyeball with a razor which is spooky specific. No one stood up for her. As you show with you examples of others, it’s hardly limited to porn.