If we substitute Richardson, it would've taken place in a studio, and he'd have had his cock out... instead of texting a borderline plaintive proposition from across town. What a farcical comparison.

You're actually the one making up facts to suit your point. All anyone is saying is that there's no point in answering your question by comparing the two men because they're NOT THE SAME. That's like asking if you substituted the guy harmlessly flirting with you at the bar with Jeffrey Dahmer, would you still react…

Franco didn't do anything that wrong. He thought she was 18, and then he backed off when she found she wasn't, and said 'let's meet when you're 18'. End of story.

Richardson has a history of sexually assaulting women he has hired to model, not a history of having consensual sex with legal but young women. Franco has no known history of sexual assault and was not in a position of power over her in any way. She is of age, and is able to consent to casual sex. She has agency in…

This girl was legally old enough to consent in New York. She was not hired by Franco to model. She was not trying to get an audition. He did not sexually assault her. He didn't even send her explicit texts. It's gross because he's in his mid-30s and he was hitting on a teenager and that says volumes about his lack of…

Except Terry Richardson hits on models that depend on him for employment. Completely different scenario. If he just messaged non-models on Instagram with the same type messages as James Franco did, I wouldn't call him a rapist.

When he's himself, and not in character, he's quite good.

As far as I can tell, nobody had sex, right? I haven't clicked on any of the links. Terry actually whipped out his penis and came on unwilling participants. Not the same thing at all.

I think the writer and the majority of the commenters here seriously need to work on their mental health. No idea how I got here but it's a scary place full of scary women who talk about this man as if he isn't even a real human being. Please seek out help.

I don't see the problem, either (beyond age difference, but even then I'm a little meh about it) and it kind of makes me feel bad. If I were 17 yrs old and James Franco wanted to fuck me, I probably would seriously consider it and string him along like she did before ultimately saying no. She seemed interested then…

Um, RIP Johnny Depp and all, but the Amber Heard-hate was a little askew with the forum you posted this on. "Leggy blonde", "typical", "half your age" - I don't know if it's so necessary to put her down to that extent to make this point. Actually, it's not necessary at all.

He hit on a girl. She turned him down. He shut up. She posted it to Instagram to shame him.

My only beef with Johnny Depp is his ongoing sycophantic relationship with Tim Burton. He hasn't been in a lot of good films lately, and I put that down mostly to his continuing desire to work with the same people over and over again. Almost every film he's done in the past decade that isn't Burton has been a pseudo…

I really don't see what's so bad about the James Franco thing, he was propositioning someone who was of the legal age of consent who had expressed interest in him. If she had said no and he had cursed her out or something I might get where the outrage was coming from but as is all I see is a guy who was looking for…

Stephen Colbert the person is so fascinating, though. I've grown very fond of "Stephen Colbert" over the past few years but I'd be totally cool with the Letterman replacement.

Maybe Jezebel can offer 10k to find out...

"That's my girl."

Don't miss the part where she throws up horns.

If you're at all into trivia, which one presumes Jeopardy! contestants are, you know British royalty comes up a lot.

Still, A. Chu is nothing to sneeze at!!