I was totally buying the “’failed’ to come up with a good story”, but them I just stumbled into this, a couple of hours after reading the io9 article:

Good.

For all his talk of writing “strong female characters”, it’s funny to look back and see just how many of his stories incorporated a powerful man having control over a woman in some way.

Why does a Super Hero need “damage” to want to help with the skills she has, why not just for the fun and the honor of helping others?

After his ex-wife revealed his serial cheating, I was hoping he’d be off the film and replaced with someone who won’t pull that with the actors. I don’t buy the story thing for a minute seeing that Brett Rather got canned for sexual misconduct.

I guess he couldn’t find a way to get her barefoot

Do you know who does stuff like this? Who ignores communication from their partner, going ahead with whatever they want to do sexually, while always making sure to stay on the legal side of things? PREDATORS. It is not the men who care deeply about making sure their partners want to be there and are comfortable but…

It is so real — I was immediately talking about the situation, the coercion, consent etc. on a group text with three of my best friends because it struck such a chord. I’m hoping for more follow-up and discussions.

Going to someone’s place does not mean you consent to any and all sexual acts following your arrival there, and this idea is damaging as fuck.

If you consent to vaginal sex but not to anal sex, but someone has anal sex with you anyway, when you didn’t consent to it, would you say “Oh but I went back to their place so…

Jezebel, What Are You Doing? Days of silence on the topic, and then what comes forth is not actually the thinkpiece on sexual coercion and the “ways consent can feel blurring”, on how predators purposefully use bullshit excuses about “miscommunication” to get away with it, about how Ansari is more representative of…

This piece is unreal. I’ve been looking for Jez’s take on this for over 24 hours. They haven’t covered it at all except to say that Babe did it badly. Way to have those tough conversations, Jez

Would it have been better if they just published rumors that just happened to be true? They published a women’s account of being pressured into a sexual interaction she wasn’t comfortable with, and one in which the man repeatedly ignored her cues that she was uncomfortable. That’s newsworthy.

I watch Addams Family and Adams Family Values once a year, values more so than the original since the story to me is better with the kids and the camp and Debbie is hilarious and the scene with the police station.

Dirty pool old man....I like it.

No thanks we already got one.

If even a few of those bodies has an oral or sexual disease, they will then be (likely) spreading it to the girl, who will then (probably) spread it to hundreds more people. This sounds like a horror film disguised as a teen drama.

“A,” a benevolent spirit who wakes up in a different person’s body every day.

the main consistency is age (so it doesn’t get creepy)

Teens need better romantic movies so they don’t have weird ideas about love and relationships. Love is great but it’s also work. Like actual work to keep the relationship going, not making out with a different hot person everyday work.