So we started at “you wouldn’t have killed yourself” and we’re ending at “this disagreement means you’re a bad psychologist.” This is the kind of invalidating thing I was talking about when I said I deserve to be treated better than you’ve offered. I’m not triggered, I’m self-advocating. And no, I didn’t go into… Read more

I commented expecting pushback, certainly! This whole “I bet you didn’t actually want to kill yourself, you’d have been fine” thing is not an okay way to treat another person. Read more

Hey, this fucking sucks. The way you have treated my experiences throughout this has fucking sucked. I deserve better than you’ve offered me. I’m okay, I’ve had worse interactions online, but you should know that I deserve better, as a person, than what you’ve give me. Read more

Just explaining why I used the euphemism I did. Anyway, a teen has all the rights having been sent to a residential treatment boarding school that they do otherwise. What right does a child have not to be sent to summer camp? Or sent to stay with a grandparent while their parent takes a weekend off or even to go on a… Read more

You ARE invalidating my experience and there is absolutely no other way to read your first comment about how I probably wouldn’t have REALLY killed myself or died by coronary by 35. You’re outright stating it isn’t true, and implying that my very serious mental health problems were histrionics. I deserve better than… Read more

“Sent away” is the language we used to describe it in the environments I was in. And no, I was not kidnapped or imprisoned. Hilton may describe her experiences that way, and as a survivor of abuse, how she describes it is totally her prerogative! But this is exactly what I’m talking about. You don’t get to dictate the… Read more

So, I didn’t go to Provo Canyon. I went to a different school, which did not abuse children. Shut down Provo Canyon, certainly. That’s not the same as saying shut down residential treatment modalities. Read more

Whew. My knee-jerk reaction to this is so, so torn. I also went to a school for “troubled teens” and I also was woken up in the middle of the night to be transported across the country (first to a wilderness program in Utah, then back across the country -slightly- more willingly to a boarding school). It saved my… Read more

Well that was creepily predatory and close to an abuser grooming his target. ...I knew she liked it, he said, stripping her of agency... Read more

I had to deal with the paparazzi once. I was working for a nonprofit at the time and we landed a super famous star to come to an event. Two paparazzi showed up and they just oozed grossness. The best shorthand I can use to describe them is obnoxious frat boys, but worse. Just these parasitic dudes with backwards… Read more

The podcast You’re Wrong About did a great episode about the Wardrobe Malfunction if you’re interested: Read more

Yah, I don’t agree with you.  I think the way she was treated by the media an public was way more harsh because she was a woman.  I also think there is something wrong with saying someone has limited rights because they make bad decisions.  By that reasoning a lot more people should be under conservatorships.  She was… Read more

For her to have some say who is in charge of her conservatorship at this point.  I also think you are pretty blithely ignoring the way media and the music industry treated women just because it all looks like it worked out in the end for her.
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As on old school hip hop head it amazes me how the newer generation act like we didn’t see this about over twenty years ago Foxy Brown and Lil Kim. I mean people were writing think pieces about WAP and I am like are you shitting me? Read more

the video is entertaining. the song is meh. but in general when i see Cardi B all i think is “ As a country we have fallen so far from Beyonce. Can we ever return?” Read more

I’m an actual K-12 teacher in a face-to-face/hybrid learning environment where students are only required to maintain a distance of 3 feet apart and they eat and shout and laugh with their masks off in the school cafeteria and our faculty was told to show up in person or quit. We haven’t been given the opportunity to… Read more

So much to comment on here, but I can’t get past that shot of her IG post where she writes, “... at the end of the day we go to sleep at night knowing we have changed the lives of our students in the most meaningful, compassionate ways possible!!” Read more

I’ve never seen anyone look more like a rapist than Ed Westwick Read more

Where’s her father in all this? Read more

I would say that honor goes go Stevie Nicks, but I'm showing my age, lol Read more