Maureen Callahan

People take what they say as legitimate.

Not so.

A spokesperson for Paul says in a statement obtained by people, which means people went to them for a statement.

OK, it's not that hard.

You shoot off an email.

You say, hey, does your client have a statement?

We're running a story either way.

And they give you a statement obtained by people.

Quote, Taylor is very grateful for ABC support.

That sounds like a veiled threat to me.

that sounds like a veiled threat to me that taylor knows how abc runs the bachelor and taylor knows how hulu again abc and hulu both owned by disney also knowns how hulu runs their reality tv shop this is a woman who got famous because she was part of a group of women under this mom talk umbrella these moms on tick tock who were quote unquote soft swinging

A terrible new addition to the lexicon.

Soft swinging is apparently when you're just fucking each other's husbands and everybody knows everybody else and everybody knows everybody who's doing it.

You know, see our Lindy West piece on last week's Nerve.

for our take on ethical non-monogamy.

She got famous off of that.

I weep for the culture.

I weep.

Instead of people being like, oh, that's disgusting.

I mean, even just the hygienic disgustingness of it, even just the like having to get like, go to your doctor like every other week for an STD panel or like your kids knowing that you're fucking their best friend's father while daddy's off.