I was thinking desperation and photoshop.

Hopefully, her people are thinking outside of the box with this.

So, the problem isn’t simply that he had affairs (I agree — that’s something lots of people do, and while it’s a violation of trust to the person one is has pledged monogamy to, it’s in and of itself not other people’s business or the most pressing thing for the public to weigh in on). The problem is 1) he has affairs…

Unless both him and his wife had an open, poly-amorous relationship it is absolutely fair game to bring it up in relation to his sleaziness and sexist behaviour. It shows he did not value her as a equal partner, her consent or her safety. Lot’s of people have affairs. That doesn’t make it any less of an issue.

Really? It’s the affairs that bother you? Not the obvious power imbalance inherent in who he chose to fuck around with? Not the creepy ass way he kept sexualizing the character in that script? Not his inability to see where he went wrong and self correct? Like, I don’t think Whedon is unredeemable (thought that might…

*butt wags uncontrollably*

It’s not ‘just’ the affairs, it is that he was having them with actresses who he was in a position of power over. That abuse of power makes it an additional ethical failing beyond the cheating.

Okay, have this treat then.

I have a dog-like complex. I’m easily excitable and run around on all fours.

I read it more as “big boobs but with some visible arm muscles”

Purple prose for: “Any bigger than a size 2 and my boner gets sad.”

“...curvaceous, but taut...”

he spent a lot of his career surrounded by “beautiful, needy, aggressive young women” and that environment made him feel “like something from a Greek myth.”

I agree. I actually think it might be useful to look at this case through the prism of the “family annihilator” - a parent (usually a father) who kills his children and then commits suicide. They’re often motivated by a desire for revenge against their ex-partner, who they feel wronged them in divorce or custody…

This is such a great question and something I’ve thought about a lot in the last few years. My mom was on a jury for a sexual assault - a man in his 30s repeatedly raped an 11 year old girl for five years before anyone found out. My daughter happened to be around the same age (11) at the time of the trial and after…

There is beginning to be some training and support for journalists dealing with PTSD from the things they’ve seen. I know some very damaged souls in the profession. Great writers who have seen too much, for too long.

She stabbed two children under 6 multiple times. The little girl had defense wounds. I couldn’t give less of a shit about her depression. Millions of people deal with depression and don’t do things like this.

There really should be. Not to be tangential, but one of my biggest takeaways from The People vs. OJ Simpson was how mistreated the jurors were.

Thanks for the long article; I can’t imagine how gruelling this must have been for jurors, court reporters and journalists, let alone the families involved/affected.

I honestly don’t care how crazy this woman is or was at the time. The way she murdered those children was horrific and she’s never seemed to give one fuck. Plenty of mentally ill people do something in the state of psychosis and feel something afterwards. Fuck her. Flush her down the toilet. Leave her in a dark hole…