You’ll have to file an appeal.
It’s over a song and Tommy Mottola being an asshole about it. The original “I’m Real” (sans Ja Rule) used a sample that was originally for Mariah’s song “Loverboy”. She was literally in the process of securing the sample for herself when Tommy gave it to Jennifer. Every since then, no bueno.
Tyga.
I think someone at Cosmo gave Rebecca Rose the keys to the Twitter account and she was throwing some love towards her old Jez comrades.
This is such a mean girl comment — figures it’s the one that Brown chooses to feature.
THEN GO WATCH IT, KUMAIL.
I’d advise staying away from places like the official Duggar facebook page. The people defending him are about to give me a rage stroke. Lots of “he who hasn’t sinned should cast the first stone,” “it’s normal for young boys to be sexually curious,” “it was in the past,” “god forgives all,” etc. Because you know,…
Gabourey Sidibe, girl, you shouldn’t answer random FaceTimes. (I don’t have an iPhone. That’s like Skype but more exclusive, yeah?) But if you have to answer random video calls, always answer them with a knife.
Cuba Gooding, Jr, David Schwimmer, John Travolta, and Selma Blair? Dear God it’s like a Washed Up 90s All-Star Team.
No one ever called this rape, they call this sexual assault. Which it is. Also, if someone’s isolated you and is touching you and not caring that you say “no,” that is not laughable. That is frightening and they need to know that that’s not ok, and we’re all glad you got out of there.
You’re aware of the difference between rape and sexual assault, yes?
Who finds unwanted sexual contact laughable, exactly?
One of the things I value so much, reading this story, is how clearly it shows the way that reporting someone isn’t always and shouldn’t be assumed to be a horrible excision of deep personal trauma—that the author reported him with the primary goal of keeping other women safe.
Rape is included in sexual assault, but is not the same thing. Nobody here is saying that men are not sexually assaulted, or that it’s not a big deal when this happens to them. Someone who attempts to force themselves on a person—such as what happened to you— and fails will probably try again and succeed. That’s why…
At this point, I should be used to seeing backlash against Emma Sulkowicz, but I still wasn’t fully prepared for…
I read The Sparrow for the first time last month, and it won’t stop haunting me. I can’t recall the last time I read a novel where its characters were so utterly real, so completely three-dimensional in every scrap of their dialogue. Can any io9ers tell me their thoughts on the sequel?