Enough with the knee-jerk use of the term “grooming.” It sure sounds like she was/is a manipulative asshole, but was she using her celebrity status to entice minors into sexual activities with her?

“From body shaming to being sexualized on stage” is not grooming. Oversharing, verbal abuse? Not grooming.

Because the employees that gave the press this information are explicitly giving her a “free pass”. For the press to do otherwise would be to distort their words.

You can not like Clarkson. You can’t make the people this information is coming from not like Clarkson.

The phrase “toxic workplace” is trending into buzzword territory where it’s just used anytime someone is unhappy with their job. 

He got all that done...and yet he looks like this:

Didn’t Ellen's whole downfall start with people talking about how horrible she was to with with? I think a lot more of her accusations were about her directly.

I feel like there’s a difference between Ellen saying she had no clue and ex-employees specifically speaking up about poor treatment stating that Kelly Clarkson didn’t. It’s weird to compare Ellen’s claims to victims talking about Clarkson.

While the whole “throwing staplers” thing is excessive, a lot of these kinds of articles that spin a yarn about a toxic workplace in showbiz definitely describe probably 90+% of workplaces in the US. That’s not a good thing, but if we’re gonna shine a light behind the scenes of talk shows, it’s worth mentioning how…

One employee was heard lamenting “oh, I can’t believe it’s happening to me!”

My job sucks too. Management blows 

this might be a ‘hot take’ but it sure doesn’t feel like ‘virality’ is a particularly interesting or meaningful metric anymore.

I thought people watched because they dress Barrymore like a mom who lost her kids at JC Penney in 1992, if not 1983. It’s a nostalgia thing.

I feel like there’s hostility being read into some fairly bland, tongue-in-cheek tweets/signs. I suppose “see you on the picket line” is kind of passive-aggressive, but that’s about it. Portraying it as “WGA assholes make delightful young actor a scapegoat for their strike” kind of reveals the writer’s sympathies. 

Does the Blood Moon return and force you to skip a cutscene every time?

People who don’t like sudden physical proximity and have a strong notion of personal space to the point that Drew’s actions make them cringe aren’t anymore joyless than anyone else. As long as Drew has a bit of a talk with her guests beforehand though, she isn’t doing anything wrong but I get why people would feel…

Hard disagree. I think it’s weird when she gets down on the floor and up in a person’s face, it’s almost pandering to me. When she did it to Mary J. Blige, you could just see the “what in white hell is this” in Mary’s eyes.

I have an unrelated question, but when did Aaron Rupar become the voice of the nation? Every political story I read seems to include his tweets about current events but I can’t seem to find anything about him other than that he’s a self-employed journalist?

Is this a good place to discuss my theory that Boy Meets World takes place in a slowly collapsing, Matrix-style simulation?

Winona Ryder’s stardom rocketed after she changed her name from Winona Horowitz.

“If there was any doubt why she took this gig, well, that’s settled.”

A friend of mine once proposed that we start a website, similar in format to the old “hot or not” style, but it would be “are these The Chainsmokers, or two random bros?”