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.

Yep, he clearly had a type he kept casting over and over in his shows - it’s the number one reason why I’ve always felt uncomfortable about people praising him as a feminist icon. Almost all of his female characters are super skinny, petite, supermodel types with severe mental issues often exploited by men (hello…

No, I think she is saying she has PTSD because she spent 20 years with a guy who turned out to have lied to her so often, and so successfully, that she has to question if they ever had an authentic moment. Every time she remembers him having to work late, while she believed him completely at the time, she has to ask…

Oh yes! I always wondered how Buffy could be seen as a feminist show: Sure, the girl can hit hard, but she’s an emotional doormat all over the series.

I could call a cheater a feminist. I would not call someone who cheats on his wife with desperate young actresses on his shows a feminist, though - that’s exploitation of power over women for sexual purposes.

Nobody who watched Dollhouse with a critical eye could possibly walk away from that thinking Whedon was the Feminist Hero of our Age. Let’s start with massive doses of what is effectively rape and go from there.

I always thought there was something off about Whedon.

Love this. Exactly - if he was surrounded by “needy young women,” they were there on his say-so! They didn’t just jump out of a dark alley and attack his poor, innocent dick with their neediness...

Not exactly news. I was never a Buffy fan (nor much a fan of Whedon in general at all, tbh), but even I know all you have to do is ask Charisma Carpenter if you want to know what a shit-heel Joss has often been to women, despite all his big talk.

“Beautiful, needy, aggressive young women”. So his favourite kind then. And dude, you wrote the show and decided what kind of people would be in it, you’re the one who surrounded yourself with the beautiful, needy, aggressive young women. They didn’t just, like, turn up.

No but dating your employees when you have so much more power and wealth sure as shut means you are not. You can’t say you think women are your equals then turn around and abuse your power to bed them.

Not if you’re having repeated affairs with women you’re in a position of power over and using your wife as a shield against anyone looking too deeply into your fucked up behavior.

I commented elsewhere his Greek myth would be Penisius Douchebaggus, a sexual harassing minor centaur hunted by Artemis/Diana.