The main difference is time. The accusations against Polanski, Allen and even Cosby came at a time when it was okay to suggest that maybe the victim was the real sexual predator (aka “no angel”) and to overall dismiss the victims of sexual assault.

HELLO!! 7th Heaven was pulled from TV stations after the allegations against Collins surfaced.

And yet he worked to get Rick Perry elected.

I’d be happy if Charlie Jane did TV reviews on Gizmodo. The new TV reviewers are... not as insightful or compelling.

With the amount of videos she’s produced it’s only natural for her to have made a mistake here and there (although I generally take accusations of such with a heaping pile of salt, because when I go to investigate claims of “she used this example out of context!” or whatever, I usually find that no, she was in fact…

I’m waiting for a social experiment that includes a control group.

I’m seriously worried a Clinton vs Drumpf race will be another demonstration of ‘A lie can travel around the world in the amount of time it takes the truth to put on its pants’ the same way Bush vs Gore was. Drumpf lies flies off his tongue with such speed and no thought put into them.

When is it going to be enough that she addressed what she said over 20 years ago?

DC Universe Online is kinda following in those footsteps. They’re not closely tied to the DC superhero shows but they’re working to follow the series with the latest expansions. The Flash has gotten more attention, a Melissa Benoist Supergirl skin was added and the next DLC adds Legends of Tomorrow missions.

MSNBC would’ve done well to try to hold onto S.E. Cupp

MSNBC had a big problem in its progressive shift, one that neither management or viewers could figure out. Should it be partisan or idealogical? Some viewers wanted a channel as partisan a Fox, one that would instinctively go into debunk mode at anything that might make democrats look bad. MSNBC’s hires were an…

Ah, I see. There are so many groups that shittily profitted off of being the system in systemic racism.

“I can honestly say that if I was born a black man my views would be the same”

This is one of my worries about the Clintons’ New Democrat history. Rove has used astroturf groups in the past to attack Democrats as not doing enough for underrepresented communities. I wonder if he or someone like him are preparing some of her triangulating comments to demotivate liberal voters. If you dig in the…

That’s a good point. I’m guessing you’re talking about practices like redlining? (Or how, more recently, predatory practices like Pick A Payment loans disproportionately hit PoC.) At the very least, saying that there should be reparations for these practices would be a solid step and a way to take some of that…

It’s kinda like the meltdowns that happened when a porn performer did a reading of a book to a group of children. She didn’t do anything inappropriate, she didn’t hand out her resume, detailing where to find her porn work, she just read a story but people acted like she did a presentation from the Joy of Sex.

#cahoots

Oh, neat. I adore Merrin Dungey, though I primarily know her from Better Off Ted and Malcolm in the Middle. Too bad OUAT couldn’t figure out what to do with Ursula. I didn’t realize they were related.

Tho I enjoy Steam’s system that lets you download and install a game during promotional periods and simply disables your access to the game once that period is done. I get a good idea how much I’d actually enjoy the game that way.

Netflix has “The Get Down” coming up, set in the same era and about music... and yet it doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a white men doing white things in the past show! It’s like they know where the interesting stuff was happening.