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Miley Cyrus Is Sharing Hannah Montana Clips to Work Through Her Coronavirus Feelings


Like everyone else around the world, Miley Cyrus is figuring out how to navigate the current coronavirus/COVID-19 situation.

As more regulations are put into place around social distancing and isolation, she’s taken to posting old Hannah Montana clips to express her feelings—and, honestly, we love her for it. Everyone could use a little levity and nostalgia right now, and Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana is a welcome sight.

In the first clip, Cyrus is wearing a face mask and cleaning a bathroom when she freaks out over dirty clothes falling on her head. “Day 2 Quarantine. This is the REAL ME. RIGHT NOW. ???????,” Cyrus wrote in the caption. Her IRL boyfriend, Cody Simpson, commented, “She isn’t lying.”

Her second post included screenshots where Hannah says, “Did you see that? The new guy touched me. Didn’t anybody tell him? Hello! Never touch the star.” In the caption, Cyrus wrote, “Social Fucking Distancing. #HannahAlwaysKnowsBest”

Next, she dropped in a clip of an “emergency” shopping trip, but this time she had a more serious message for her fans and followers. “Be thoughtful. Respectful. Compassionate. HUMAN. while preparing for social distancing…. NO ONE needs every soup in the store, The more we hoard the more expensive and sparse necessities will become, leaving many without essentials,” the singer wrote. “This is a great time to practice restraint… it’s incredibly difficult to make smart decisions while panicking , but think twice before following the fear and being inconsiderate. There is enough to go around if we take care of one another. This is a beautiful time to LEAD!”

Finally, Cyrus posted a scene where Lilly (Emily Osment) has scrubbed down the Stewart home (including the plants!), much to the delight of Miley and her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, who played Robby Ray Stewart on the show. “Find yourself a Lilly …… #HannahMontanapredictedcoronavirus ??????,” she wrote in the caption.

We can’t wait to see which clip Miley Cyrus posts next. Or maybe now would be a great moment to drop some new music?!?



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Hannah Brown Just Set the Record Straight on Her Feelings for Tyler Cameron


Hannah Brown has had a whirlwind week. The finale of her season of The Bachelorette finally aired and revealed that she gave her final rose to contestant Jed Wyatt—only to find out later he hadn’t been honest about his past relationships. She promptly called off their engagement and told host Chris Harrison that, while she wouldn’t mind rekindling things with Tyler Cameron, she’s focusing on herself at the moment.

On Wednesday, July 31, Brown opened up even more about her Bachelorette experience on Instagram. In a tenderly written post, she thanked her fans for their support and encouragement as her story went public. “I opened my heart to love, and shared that experience with millions,” she wrote. “I’ve had my fair share of ups and downs and as painful as it has been at times, I wouldn’t change it one bit. Did I make choices that hurt my heart? Absolutely. Have I become stronger through that hurt? You bet. I realized how strong of a woman I am, and how resilient I can be.”

She continued, “My love story might not have been the one I would have initially written for myself; however, falling more in love with the woman I am at the end of this journey is something I’ll always look back on fondly. This is not my ending; it’s just my beginning.”

And for those who are still wondering what’s going on with Cameron, Brown set the record straight on that. “Yes, the drink is happening. No, you’re not invited,” she wrote. “I’m really appreciative that Tyler has always had my back and supported me through all my decisions. He constantly encourages me to lean into the strong woman that I am. He’s a really good man, and I’m going to be his biggest fan in whatever makes him the most happy.”

See Brown’s full post for yourself, above.



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As an Adoptive Mom, I Have Complicated Feelings About The Handmaid's Tale


My daughter is the best thing to happen to me. Six years later, I’m convinced she’s the reason I went through all the rest: because I was always meant to be her mother. But our once-very open adoption has dwindled over the years, mostly because her other mama has pulled away from us. I think it’s been hard for her, watching another woman raise her child. Even though this is what she chose—even though this baby was never stolen from her like they are in Gilead—I think the pain of being separated from the child she grew and loved has slowly made seeing us something she’d rather avoid. That pain she feels juxtaposed against the joy I experience with motherhood is a dichotomy I have trouble facing.

This most recent season of The Handmaid’s Tale has brought up these gut-check moments even more. That’s not just because of Serena: We’ve also been given insight into Mrs. Mackenzie (Amy Landecker), the woman raising June’s other daughter, Hannah. We don’t know much about Mrs. Mackenzie, just that she’s also a Commander’s wife who was given Hannah after June became a Handmaid. The interaction in the season three premiere between Mrs. Mackenzie and June, who both clearly love Hannah, gutted me. Mrs. Mackenzie said things I could picture myself saying (or at least thinking).

“This has to stop,” she says to June, speaking of her continued efforts to see Hannah. “You brought our child into the world. The Commander and I bless you for that. God knows.”

“I’m her mother,” Mrs. Mackenzie continues. When June flinches at that, Mrs. Mackenzie takes a breath and says, “You’re being cruel, confusing her like this.” “I’m confusing her?” June challenges.

It’s a poignant moment: both women standing their ground. Both clearly believing they are the ones doing right by this child. And while as the audience, we can see that June is the one who’s right, I could still see myself in Mrs. Mackenzie.

It made me wonder: When it comes to my daughter’s adoption, am I the one who knows what’s best?

June in The Handmaid’s Tale.

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I think so. I believe so. And watching that interaction on The Handmaid’s Tale, I also believe Mrs. Mackenzie thinks the same. There’s this moment, after the two women find common ground in sharing what they know about Hannah, where June concedes. “I appreciate the home you’ve made for her,” she tells Mrs. Mackenzie. Because it is a good home. Because her little girl is clearly loved. Because it could be so much worse. My daughter’s other mother has said the same to me more than once.



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Lucy Flores Spoke Out About Joe Biden to Prove That Women’s Feelings Have Value


Lucy Flores once encouraged me to come forward after a man acted inappropriately toward me. Your experience matters, she explained. Let him know he was inappropriate—and help women in the same situations feel less alone.

I chose not to come forward, for some of the same reasons that so many women stay silent. But I was struck by her crystal-clear insistence that what happened to me and how I felt about it was important—and I’m blown away by her courage today.

Last week Flores published an essay that described how former Vice President Joe Biden touched her shoulders and kissed her on the back of the head at a 2014 campaign event, and explained how he made her feel “uneasy, gross, and confused.”

In my experience, and in her more recent revelation about Biden, Flores had the tenacity to say: These men make us feel uncomfortable. Their hands. Their lips. Their breath. I felt embarrassed. I felt my space invaded.

And in her decision to come forward about, Flores is stating loudly: Women’s feelings matter.

Flores’ bravery goes beyond speaking out against inappropriate men. She has the courage to claim that her feelings are worth equal consideration. Imagine: a woman of color, with the nerve to assert that her feelings are just as important as a powerful white man.

It’s enough to shake the foundations of our country.

The absurd response to Flores’ revelation—from Biden, his supporters, and the inevitable brigade of defensive white men—has been entirely focused on Biden’s feelings. You see, they explain, Biden felt the situation was perfectly appropriate. First Biden’s spokesperson provided Biden’s assessment of Flores’s comfort: “Neither then, nor in the years since, did he or the staff with him at the time have an inkling that Ms. Flores had been at any time uncomfortable.” Then Biden himself expressed his own complete comfort with the situation: “Not once—never—did I believe I acted inappropriately.” And most recently Biden’s allies explained that Biden’s goal was Flores’ comfort and relaxation: “He often drew close to people who were nervous in an effort to relax them.”

Built into this stream of defenses is the assertion that Biden’s feelings of comfort and appropriateness should negate Flores’ feelings of discomfort and unease. If Biden was comfortable, the rationale seems to go, if his goal was to make her feel good, then nothing else matters.

Setting aside Biden’s intent, his line of defense speaks volumes. In our society, a man’s level of comfort is more important than a woman’s unease. We live in a world where a man can defend himself by merely explaining, “Felt fine to me!”

In the week since Flores spoke up, numerous former aides have also stepped forward to say they felt completely comfortable around Biden—as if their experiences negate her own. Former staffer Kendra Barkoff Lamy tweeted, “I was never uncomfortable with how he treated me.” Former chief of staff Sheila Nix reiterated Biden’s claim that “he had no intention of making anyone feel uncomfortable.” Even MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski chimed in, “I don’t think there is bad intent on his part at all.”

The conversation around Lucy Flores is not a debate over what happened on that stage. Even Biden himself doesn’t deny it. Instead Flores is forcing us to look in the mirror as a country and think: Whose feelings matter? Why is the pain and discomfort of women, and especially women of color, so often dismissed? Flores has the temerity to demand that men consider the comfort of others as much as they consider their own. She is asking men who have always touched women’s backs, thighs, shoulders, and waists how that might make us feel.





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Beto O'Rourke Is Running for President, and Progressive Women Have Mixed Feelings


When I first heard two years ago that Beto O’Rourke, a relatively unknown Texas congressman from El Paso without any flashy national legislative wins, was running against swamp monster Ted Cruz for the latter’s Texas Senate seat, I had a similar reaction to a lot of people: Go for it, dude. Why not?

And like a lot of people, when I saw the lavish magazine profiles and never-ending Facebook Live videos and sweat-soaked blue button-downs, I got excited. Texas needed this win. Democratic organizers in states put for decades in the “Lean Red” and “Solid Red” columns needed this win. And with so much on the line in the 2018 midterms, progressives nationwide needed this win. I believed Beto O’Rourke’s message could inspire action from generation of activists and voters for years to come. And even after he lost, I hoped we’d see him again in the future.

So when news broke that O’Rourke was gearing up for a presidential run, you’d think I’d jump for joy. But I didn’t.

As a candidate in the Texas Senate race, O’Rourke radiated promise and optimism, an avatar for Democrats who’d had little to cheer for in such a historically conservative state. As a candidate on the national stage, however, he looks a lot less like the future we’d hope for. Even against just the other white men in this race (or about to get in it) like former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg, it’s hard to say what Beto O’Rourke brings to the table other than potentially a Best Personality™ superlative.

It’s hard not to be skeptical, too, about O’Rourke’s personality-driven bid when former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum are putting their post-election efforts towards initiatives like rebuilding Georgia’s entire election system and creating a voter registration group in Florida, respectively. (Abrams may yet announce a run for higher office, but if and when she does, it’ll be backed up with clear policy objectives that she’s detailing now.) If O’Rourke truly wants to do the “greatest good” for America as he claims, why not focus on uprooting structural inequality on the ground and making it easier for the most vulnerable Americans to have their voices heard and their needs met? What does running an ambiguous presidential campaign achieve?

There’s a big difference between O’Rourke running unopposed against Ted Cruz, one of the more unpopular members of Congress, and O’Rourke running against a slate of candidates in one of the most diverse primary fields—both in terms of identities and ideology—in presidential campaign history. Against Cruz, the common criticism that O’Rourke was low in ideological direction, policy proposals, and legislative accomplishments faded into the background. Now it’s unmissable. To his credit, O’Rourke has tried to better define where he stands—but his platform seems mostly to draw on the ideas that more liberal-leaning peers have put forward, with few signature ideas of his own. He’s supported a few more progressive efforts like the Green New Deal and ending narcotics prohibition and legalizing marijuana, though he’s also rescinded his support of single-payer healthcare for a more moderate option called Medicare for America.

Some see this mix-and-match politics as a positive. “Him being so focused on talking to people, listening to people, and inspiring people at the start of this campaign in combination with sharing those policies is an important balance for me,” says New York-based editor Olivia, who asked not to use her last name. “I can see how it is energizing young people in the party and even people beyond the party and that excites me—I feel like that should be something we’re all cheering on, whether he’s our number-one choice or not.”



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Twitter Has Very Strong Feelings About Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court Confirmation


Judge Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed on Saturday as the 114th U.S. Supreme Court Justice. The final vote was the conclusion of a weeks-long process of primary confirmation votes, hearings, and powerful testimony—particularly the testimony delivered by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault and took her allegations to the Senate floor, where she unflinchingly and bravely detailed her account to the judiciary committee.

During the confirmation vote Saturday afternoon, protestors could be heard screaming and shouting from the public gallery, with cries of “Shame! Shame! Shame!” and “I do not consent!” Thousands of other protestors surrounded the Supreme Court Building and U.S. Capitol.

Twitter users, of course, took to the platform to express their feelings after Kavanaugh’s final confirmation vote on Saturday.

There was anger…

…reminders and encouragement…

…a bit of humor…

But there was also quite a lot of hope—take, for example, this thread from filmmaker Ava DuVernay.

And finally, there was one strong message that shone through: “November is coming.” Kavanaugh’s confirmation—and nomination—seems to have raised awareness that voting in the upcoming midterm elections is more important than ever.

Another reminder? Whether you agree or disagree with Kavanaugh’s nomination, the midterms are November 6. Here’s your guide to the voter rights.

MORE: Brett Kavanaugh Has Been Confirmed to the Supreme Court





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