Angelina Jolie had her breakout role in Girl, Interrupted the year after he went after her. And Weinstein is the one who made Gwyneth a star, right before she shot her breakout role in one of his films. He made her feel like she owed him, and she was terrified that by fleeing, she might have lost her shot.

I assume the light was green for Venus and someone coming the other way abruptly turned left in front of her, trying to beat the light, so she got stuck in the intersection when the light changed.

Seriously, she was someone he would have needed to cultivate, not intimidate. He’d have never dared lay a finger on her, and her people wouldn’t have felt the need to warn her about him. I’m sure she knew he was a pig and a bully, there was NO ONE in the business that didn’t know that. But that he was an actual…

Seriously, she was someone he would have needed to cultivate, not intimidate. He’d have never dared lay a finger on her, and her people wouldn’t have felt the need to warn her about him. I’m sure she knew he was a pig and a bully, there was NO ONE in the business that didn’t know that. But that he was an actual…

Meryl Streep was one of the most famous and respected actresses in the business before Harvey Weinstein entered it. She is someone that he would have wanted to cultivate, not intimidate, so even if her people knew, they would have had no reason to warn her against him, because he wouldn’t have dared fuck with her.…

When I lived in DC, I used to go to an Ethiopian place that had that had one small table on a little raised dais right next to the window that hardly anyone ever used, because the plants pressed so close. I used to sit there by myself and people watch and/or read all the time.

According to research you can look up for yourself, about 13% of men admit they would rape a woman if they could be sure they would suffer no consequences. And if you remove the word rape, 30% admit they either would coerce a woman into sex.

You’ve only been dealing with “white people” having any pejorative meaning at all for a few years, while “black people” has been used pejoratively ever since we brought them here. But when you’ve been privileged for so long, any move towards true equality feels like oppression.

Because what it had to say antagonized those who maintain the status quo?

There are billions of Muslims in the world, but only a few thousand Muslim terrorists. The number of people in America who have been attacked by Muslims since 9/11 is less than the number of Harvey Weinstein’s victims. One in three people are not harassed by Muslims. One in six people are not assaulted by Muslims. Yet…

Perhaps part of listening to victims should include listening to Polanski’s victim, who wishes the authorities would let it go and call it done. Who are we to insist that she continually be re-traumatized by being pursued for comment every time the case is in the news again?

Have you read An Exultation of Larks, by James Lipton? The Inside the Actor’s Studio guy wrote an entire book about terms of venery, including a modern section he made up, like a nucleus of physicists, a drove of cab drivers, a consternation of mothers, an indifference of waiters, etc.

This is why female-centric movies have lower overall scores on Rotten Tomatoes than they should. Because in addition to the obvious trolls shitting out obviously misogynist opinions, loads of other dudes who would probably be offended if you suggested they were in any way misogynist write bad reviews that aren’t…

I was once at a Washington party where some of the people who did oppo on Anita Hill were. They were congratulating themselves on smearing her enough to get Uncle Tom confirmed, and on finding a candidate that the Dems would be reluctant to fight too hard for fear of alienating the n****rs.

It’s hard because we all know of men who get violent when they get turned down. https://mic.com/articles/135394/14-women-were-brutally-attacked-for-rejecting-men-why-arent-we-talking-about-it#.2NvqzwHci

I think the correct collective noun would be a hatchet of Juggalos.

“Bring it back?” There’s about three million black people in prison providing unpaid labor, which includes making the American flags flown by government agencies.

President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

And here I was wondering if it was just that I was very stoned that you weren’t making sense.

You’re not differing, because I said that constantly having to identify with characters unlike yourself increases empathy.