Charlotte Clymer had an amazing thread about the trope of a woman sleeping her way to the top.

Scruggs, who died in 2001, did not sleep with someone to get the story, so the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is demanding the movie release a clear statement exonerating Scruggs.

Wilde continued, “It’s a basic misunderstanding of feminism as pious, sexlessness. It happens a lot to women; we’re expected to be one-dimensional if we are to be considered feminists. There’s a complexity to Kathy, as there is to all of us, and I really admired her.”

This is unreal. Hope the movie tanks -- I won’t be giving it any money.

So then can we pass a low requiring all gun seekers to be forced to listen to the screams of gunshot victims and have X-rays of gunshot wounds described to them by a physician?

Well, then, it should be legally permissible to force voters to watch videos of kids in cages and deplorables shooting up synagogues before allowed access to the voting booth. "Truthful, non-misleading factual disclosures" etc.

A doctor: *describes fetal whatever to me*

The woman certainly has the right to scream as loud as possible for at least as long as they are forced to listen to thumps of cells. Those forcing this should be forced to listen to those screams for at least as long...

Holiday party circa 2004: I and my frenemy of about 10 years, “Jane,” work for a large, glitzy media company. Jane worked in the music business during the ‘80s, when the only thing larger than industry egos were the drug budgets…and her ethics and ethos were still back in those heady days. In general, she was able to…

When I was 12, my mother - unbeknownst to me-decided that it was time for me to have an “adult” Christmas. Like I did the previous year, I gave her my list which she apparently threw out. I remember my mom telling me and my younger sibling that “Santa was watching” if we were acting up, so this led me to believe that…

It was my partner’s first real job and due to his connection with a few higher-ups, we garnered an invite to an exclusive swanky holiday party. We were young and naive enough to be properly awed. It was held in a gorgeous apartment with city views and full catered. The wine is flowing and we’re having a pretty great…

The faux pas is my oldest sister’s (OS), really. I come from a large family. In number and size. As adults, early in the holiday season we would all meet up at my next-oldest sister’s (NOS) place at a fairly remote one-room cabin on a lake to spend a weekend partying, then tramping through the woods to cut down our…

Years ago, I worked for a small division of a large corporation, which meant that we had the budget for a nice holiday party, even just for our group of about 60 employees. It was your typical rent-the-ballroom at a moderatly swanky midtown hotel, with open bar and medicore food. In past years, there had been a dj,…

My dad is a recovering alcoholic. He has been sober for 35+ years. But he still struggles with being an asshole. When I was 20, my dad stopped by my mom’s house a few days before Christmas dropped off a big bag of presents. He said he was going out town for Christmas with his girlfriend. He needed me to give out and…

In fairness, unless he was planning a career of crime in addition to having that face tattoo your criticism did not apply to him.

But the only reason somebody’s an idiot is if they get a face tattoo and then do crimes! That IS dumb! This guy sounds like a peachy non crime guy.

I hope you puked on them.

Good to hear you no longer live with this turd!

This was probably ten years ago so my memory is a little hazy on some of the details. I was at a friends house in SE Portland and some of us were sitting in the dining room looking through a newspaper/rag that only featured mugshots with arrest records in it. I can’t remember the name of the paper, but it was pretty…

The sheer shittiness of men never ceases to amaze me.  And please, keep your “but not all men” responses to yourself.