Sitch somehow seems to have become slightly more self-aware as he’s gotten older - most of the cast has, actually (although not Vinny or Staten Island Dump). It’s weird, but also nice, to see these dumb-dumbs actually maturing while still maintaining reality-star status.

I make my own sparkling water using the same 3 plastic bottles for the last 4 years. It is just me - I wish other people would stop using single use plastic bottles (buying a 6 oz bottle of water - WTF???) but I do not proselytize.

With the exception of Roxanne Gay’s take (which is on brand for her but not on target for this conversation) I see the outrage in these tweets focused on the fact that men who have done far worse are still in office.

You realize that only one of the tweets you just linked somewhat supports what you claimed, and that the rest are pointing out the hypocrisy in Hill resigning over this matter while many men, often Republicans, have never faced repercussions for similar/worse transgressions, right?

A spokesperson for Mothers Lounge told the New York Times in a statement that the marketing campaign was “heartfelt.”

Also for some reason there are a lot of 35+ guys who think they’re “too young to settle down.”

Another example is how men feel like “creep” is a slur women just throw around at them at random without considering how...maybe...they are creeps.

That’s bullshit.

“Obnoxious and greedy politicians never make it in the end!”

That’s fascinating and terrifying. I always forget how privileged I am to have grown up in a super-liberal area (Western WA). We had sex ed three times: 5th, 7th, and 9th grade. I remember in 5th grade getting anatomical print-outs to color in.

Oh, I hope somebody wasn’t laboring under that illusion. Not with her merrily Chain Migrating her whole family into the country while her husband cages brown children at the border and then she tries to gaslight his voters into believing those conditions are humane.

He absolutely does, and you will be spending quite a few centuries burning in hell for your decision to cheer on violent threats against a woman’s life for something as harmless as who she has sex with. Enjoy the flaming pitchforks!

Obviously Ronan Farrow has led an extremely privileged life but this game of never good enough is just stupid. Women have been asking men to do work on these issues for years and here is a man, doing the work, and he gets shit on for what? Having feelings about it? God it pisses me off. 

Spotlight won an Oscar for telling the story of how the Boston Globe reporters had to fight against politicans, the Archdiocese, attorneys, etc.  to get the story of the Catholic Church covering up the abuse of children.

They’re both stories. One doesn’t negate the other. It’s weird to insist that he doesn’t have a story to tell and that he has to contrive to make it all about him is a weird one.

This is a seriously awesome take after reading an article which directly explains the harm caused by the performers real names being public. Although, apparently the deranged people that target them are not at fault, it is on them for choosing that profession in the first place.

But bitching and complaining is more fun. I’m sorry, but we complain all the time about men not stepping up and here we have a man who did just that. If he wrote a book about the victims, Megan would have complained about that too.

Did he ever claim or present this book as anything but a real-life thriller about him getting a story out after being pressured and implicitly threatened not to?

It seems pretty clear to me that in the course of reporting the Weinstein story - which was presumably first a piece for NBC TV, which by necessity morphed into a print article when it moved to The New Yorker - a second story started to emerge. It’s literally in the title of this book, “Catch & Kill.” Killing Farrow’s…

The book is about NBC killing the story and Farrow trying to get it published.