I second this, said it more indirectly above, but I suspect you defending Allen is a holdover from what abusers typically do to their vicitms – which is to make you feel like you are a disgusting, awful human being who caused everything and for thinking bad things about someone else, so that you will give them the…

The desperate rationalizations of the damned.

Yup, there are usually plenty of people standing by who have some sense of what’s going on, but they themselves have been gaslighted by the perpetrator; or it’s simply too hard for them to realize that they trusted/are in a relationship with/married an abuser and much easier to believe that the accuser is a liar; or…

yup.

The point is that if we can’t stop people who lead very public lives and who have a paper trail, how in the hell are we going to stop anyone? The outcry over Bill Cosby and Woody Allen is about their individual crimes, but it’s also a social reckoning of the things we tolerate from those in positions of power. If we…

Jesus, no. WTF. I’m saying that we’re all too steeped in a culture that tolerates a lot of fuckery where older men and younger women are concerned, and it needs to stop. I’m saying I feel sorry for Mia Farrow I’m not blaming her; she more than most had already been groomed to accept extremely questionable…

It shouldn’t have to get to Cosby levels before we can call someone out on their bullshit. My point is that one is already too many. I respect that people who are pedophiles are mentally ill and they need treatment and it should be easier for them to admit that and get help before they harm anyone without fear of…

She never said she’d vote for Trump, that was “Trumped up”, if you will – if you watch the whole interview, the newscaster says something about “wouldn’t Hillary be better than Trump” and she says “well, I don’t know – some people feel like him being elected would bring the revolution immediately” [implication, by not…

Really hasn’t done that much? One child is already too many. You clearly understand fuck all about the pathology of child abuse and inappropriate relationships within families. He raped one daughter, and groomed another for a sexual relationship for who knows how long before she was of legal age. His movies are…

Thanks, was going to post these. There’s a big difference between not prosecuting because of Dylan’s well-being and the power of the accused, and there not being overwhelming evidence that the man both has a taste for much, much younger women, as well as pedophilic tendencies. Mia Farrow and many others in the family…

I’ve wondered that, too. Also some darker thoughts about whether everything is ok in that family. She really seems to hate her dad and not want him around her, and I mean, we all feel that way, but it seems pretty unusual for a kid that age if there weren’t reasons.

Didn’t she also gleefully spill the beans on there possibly being a video of some school eventwhere Ted Cruz is running around in a feather boa and bloomers? Or was that the other one?

I knowwwww, though obvs season 1 Simon is pretty creepy, so I know why they cast him as Ramsay.

One of my favorite bits of old New York still visible is the boot scrapers in the railings of old townhouse stoops, you know, so you could scrape off all the shit off your shoes before you went inside. I seriously don’t understand how women used to wear such long skirts in that world.

So interesting! There’s a long description in Boy of Dahl confronting the complicated and weirdly Victorian uniform for the fancy boarding school he went to.

Men’s shirts also used to have detachable collars and cuffs that could be bleached and starched separately and replaced. Pretty sure the shirts for really formal morning coats and white tie still do. I learned about that from Roald Dahl’s Boy, and I think also from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn maybe? Jezebel: where…

That is fascinating and answers questions I didn’t even know I had about how people dealt with all those damn clothes.

That’s incredibly fucked up :( I hadn’t heard of GOMI before this. Ugh.

SheWees are very popular at Burning Man.

I think that was sort of the purpose of the cotton drawers and all the underskirts – those could be cleaned more easily and protected the really intricate frippery from your reeking body.