re: that Vanity Fair cover:

Get off the cross, Harvey.

I’m actually kind of upset by that. A million dollars is the absolute least she deserved.

If you’re trying to wrap your head around this... Anthony Rapp was one of the kids Elizabeth Shue was babysitting in the 80s comedy Adventures In Babysitting — which was filmed about a year after this happened.

that’s so fucking rude it made me lol

Any self-respecting parent of a preschooler knows that when you’re reciting e.e. cummings, you have to change the words just a teensy bit for maximum bonding power, i.e.:
i carry your fart

My takeaway from this ad is “Wow, they’re still making Eternity?”

The best quote I’ve ever read about Quentin Tarantino was, “He looks like a foot.” Now when I look at him it’s all I can see.

I know all about controlling mothers, okay? I have one. I am nearly forty, and she still tries to control what I do and don’t do.

and wanted to know her age because “he didn’t want to date anyone younger than his daughter.”

Their parents. But let’s not pretend old school mothers didn’t do a number on their sons and their attitudes toward women. I’ve seen it in my own family - mothers had a huge role in raising sexist assholes. To be fair, they themselves were raised that way and internalised misogyny and all of that, but the result is…

“I had no idea of the kind of sexual predator my brother Harvey was” said Bob Weinstein, adding, “All these years, I honestly thought it was just me !”

Like brother, like brother. What about Bob? The hateful two.

most likely the father was abusive and/or dismissive of his wife, leading the sons to diminish the worth of a woman. the same with trump’s father and his immigrant mother who was so reliant on her husband for her american citzenship, that she put up with his shit. boy children pick up this pattern and replicate it in…

Hmmm it’s like he didn’t know his brother sexually harassed women because he didn’t know that kind of behavior was sexual harassment.

So will he be on Dancing with the Has-beens and have not -beens next season?

Iron Man might not be high art, but it’s a lot less rapey.

This deserves more stars, I think you raised an extremely important point about how she sees the value of women (or lack thereof) and what is effectively internalised misogyny. I also think there is a strong possibility that she herself was subjected to harassment or abuse at the hands of that repugnant excuse for a…

Long ago, a man apologized to me for his friend’s drunken verbal assault on me the night before. He said something I have held in my heart all of my life, “A drunken man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.”

I personally think that the lack of meaningful work in prison is just one of the reasons incarceration scars people.