I was mostly joshing. What’s life without petty disciplinary rivalries? And we’re agreed on the most important points, namely dude is an astonishingly appalling predator and thankful that his assault victims were able to come forward before he progressed any further.

The primaries started before my stomach for politics did, so I missed a lot of that. I definitely saw the glass ceiling graphic at the convention and while I agree it was eye-roll inducing, I think it was an important symbol for the second wave feminists who are still around. And by the convention, Trump had clearly…

No need to besmirch philosophy! It is absolutely a right/wrong exercise. And if “creative writing” is the best counter the lawyer can come up with, I’m thinking mitigating/exonerating evidence is thin on thee ground.

You’re right that Hilary didn’t run on the “woman” platform in 08, just like Obama didn’t run on the “black” platform. Neither could have made a presidential bid of that nature work in the social climate of that time. But for all of the bullshit to come out of the past administration, demographic representation has…

Thanks for the warning. I unexpectedly ran across a description of what actually happened to that Argentinian girl the other day and it is haunting my dreams.

I think any reason attributable to his actions probably comes from his lawyers. If he had to sit in a court room listening to women say he did something wrong to them, they’d need a defensive line to keep him off the stand.

My money’s on Gloria Allred filing defamation suits against him on Monday on behalf of the two accusers she represents. Nothing like standing in front of a national audience calling a private citizen a liar for daring to confirm actions to which you have already admitted to constitute grounds for defamation.

As a private citizen, I am not beholden to that standard in my opinions. Also, it is not my habit to suspend belief of people who claim that their cars have been stolen, although the false reports for grand theft auto (~10%) are more common that false reports of rape (~2%-8%).

Ashley, I’m really disappointed you didn’t go for “fruit and fire.” It was just hanging right there, low branch and all.

Given his last doubling down was becoming explicit about her needing to go to jail, I anticipate he will openly call for her assassination in the third, instead of just setting the topic up and trailing off.

All of that rings true to me. Part of the issue might be that my copy of Love in a Cold Climate is immediately preceeeded by Pursuit of Love, so the contrast between the stories couldn’t be more pressing.

Because he was attacking a man’s wife. So they can keep being their misogynistic selves, fanning themselves over a woman’s tarnished virtue, without having to concede to the fact that women have rights to their own bodies and ought to be treated as such.

And we have a winner!

Pence is just the sanctimonious version of Trump’s pond scum. Luckily, if Trump drops out the VP can’t simply step in to fill his shoes. The republicans are going to be way more fucked than that.

Oh. Oh God. I have a strict secondary-source-only rule for Trump shit. I didn’t know that’s how the tape ended.

Shit, this has been me ever since it became clear that Trump was taking the nomination. Mr. Logic has to check on me three times a week to make sure I’m not actually choking on my cackle.

What do you make of the ending of “Love in a Cold Climate”? I’ve read it half a dozen times and every time I get to the conclusion I wonder if I hadn’t wholly missed the point of the story.

I think the problem can be that people end up having a lot of unspoken assumptions abou what marriage means. While you’re two people who like each other and bang regularly, it’s more or less ok. But the pig story is a great example of someone thinking that wife=cleaning staff. My father was a piece of shit and I got…

Double negative dude.