Kelly Faircloth's discussions

If you want to troll without reading the post, just go ahead and troll without bothering with the block quotes. Read more

I think it's possible to admit we don't know what really happened, while also saying that paragraph in particular has some problems. If the accusation isn't true I feel very, very bad for him, but to suggest that someone crying sexual assault could simply be misreading an awkward hookup sits wrong with me. I think a… Read more

Come on, Gene Kelly's obsession with long, disruptive ballet sequences was just out of fucking control in Brigadoon and everybody knows that. Read more

There's no pitchforks here — I very deliberately tried to report the accusation, his denial, and the reaction online pretty straight rather than weighing in with my own opinion, because sometimes we just don't have enough info to make the call. I think it's worth calling attention to messy stories, in addition to the… Read more

I think if it is a false accusation, he'd've been better served by a straight denial. Read more

I do actually really hope that in 25 years this sort of he-said/she-said campus conversation will be a memory because colleges will have gotten their shit together re: sexual assault and students will be more clear on consent and (barf) "blurred lines." Of course that's probably a pipe dream, but it's the goal worth… Read more

To be clear, I think there's still a long way to go on college campuses. But for people in the public eye? They have to deal with this stuff. I hope you're wrong, though, that the ultimate result of our not knowing what to do is simply to slide back into apathy. I think that's the worst possible outcome. Read more

You're entitled to your own reading and apologies if this was unclear, but I want to be very clear that as far as I'm concerned we don't actually know what happened. (You can say "I don't know" and still think his blog post has a lot of problems.) This is pretty much the ultimate he said, she said. The takeaway is… Read more

That's pretty much my read on it. There's just not enough information to resolve the fundamental question of what happened that night, but "We might have read things differently" is not the way you want to go when someone's alleging sexual assault. Read more

Those lines are about how BYSTANDERS should think through their next move. Not whether PARENTS should leave their kids in the car which, as I say in the last line of the post, is clearly a fucking bad idea. Read more

Again, I'm not talking about whether it's acceptable to leave a child alone, but what bystanders should do. I think it's a more complicated judgement call in the moment, so it behooves us to give it some thought about what we'd do in advance of ever finding ourselves in the situation. Read more

That is a good catch. Read more

I'm speaking from the perspective of a bystander and how you make the judgement call, here, not suggesting it's a great idea to leave your kids in the car while you run errands. Read more

I think the awareness has been building for several years, and it's reached critical mass this summer, partly because of the Justin Harris case. Read more

Well, she's definitely what the industry defines as a plus-size model, yes. Read more

I think opening a restaurant is brave considering how many of them go out of business in the first year. I also think what the Daily Mail is doing with their headline is nothing more than some kissing cousin to concern trolling. It's like when you're a fat woman wearing bright orange and someone says, "Good for you,… Read more

Or Choupette is. Read more

Yeah, it's such a stubborn stereotype in the West, but as someone else pointed out, it's the traditional color of wedding dresses elsewhere. Humans and their cultural signifiers, man. Read more

Oh damn, I got ahead of myself and dropped the wrong link in. It's a real thing though! Read more

That's what I said initially, but there's a press release and everything! Read more