I skimmed and skittered through just a bit of the actual piece but from what I did pick up and am seeing in the comments, for this guy "good old days" = when women couldn't escape and the dude could control her and cheap with impunity.

Bless his heart.

Sadly, I know of people with documented, official high IQs who demonstrate a fundamental inability to reason, many of whom are pretty far ring wing.

I suspect that says discomfiting things both about the power of cognitive biases and the inadequacy of psychometric testing.

Having said that, this guy looks like an idiot.

That word does not mean what you seem to think it means.

Advice from a stranger on the Internet and all, but...

What is about to happen, most likely, if you marry him, is that your career will be subordinate to his. You will probably give up your career once you have children, because it will just be too stressful, and it will be in both your economic interests for you to…

I wanted children and wouldn't trade having my daughter for anything. But let's not kid ourselves. This country currently makes having any kind of life very, very difficult, and really punishes families and especially mothers.

I'm an Old. I'm a Harvard grad. The only female friend I know from college who really has…

We certainly are exceptional in our capacity to destroy both ourselves and others despite being rich as a nation beyond what most humans who have ever lived could imagine.

Since when is Currier a hot destination?

Standards have really dropped among the young 'uns.

Perhaps its because the caffeine hasn't fully permeated my system, but I can't figure out who Bob is. Who is Bob? WHO IS BOB?

I don't want to put Woody in the cage because his kind of evil is different. For all we know, he'd bait the other two into chewing one another into bone shards while he spends millennia…

Yeah, I am hoping and praying that she did, indeed, think to herself, "Hey, he has bankrolled three movies in a row off me, so maybe I don't have to keep thanking him for my Oscar and can instead tell him to FUCK OFF and stop treating me and every other human on the planet like crap.*"

*Except Harvey. He and Harvey…

I am fully aware of how the Constitution works. My point is that it used to be understood that free speech was more important than corporate profits. I wasn't suggesting that anyone broke the law here. I was pointing out that the way this value system was enforced was societal, not legal.

Saying "fuck Dan Gilbert"…

But this just demonstrates how profits above all/reverence for corporations as our gods has contaminated our thinking. There is no reason why corporations should be allowed to control and censor journalistic discourse. It's protected in the Constitution, FFS. It used to be that profit-making entities that…

In addition to the excellent answer you already got, I'd like to suggest "put pressure on the NFL to make real, meaningful change". As Deadspin writers have well documented, the league's response to its domestic abuse problem has been entirely one of PR and marketing, with a tasty side of using it as an excuse to…

Based on how fair and gender equal our society is?

My reading comprehension is fine. Your writing and/or your intended point were unclear. I see you have clarified your intended meaning in other responses, which is helpful. But I do think if you're going to lecture other commenters about overreacting, the onus is on you to be specific in your objection. I honestly…

Wait — it would be considered normal to leave a 22 month old unattended without a hat or gloves in freezing weather? REALLY? Or let a 2 year old likewise without warm clothing "cry it out" for an hour in that same freezing temperature? That seems...unlikely to me.

Sorry — I didn't mean to make it sound like I was attacking your wording. I was responding more generally to the framing of the studio "giving" her rights that I have seen all over this discussion, both here and elsewhere on the Internet. (IIRC, it was most strident either on Deadline or the Hollywood Reporter…

Just to clarify further: the studio didn't "give" James control. Numerous companies pursued the rights to the book, and she and her advisers set up the sale process to maximize her leverage. She put herself in the driver's seat in the negotiations, required maximal creative control from whomever got the rights, and…

I'm with you. James maneuvered her text from off her cell phone through the Twilight fan base, created her own fan base, successfully pseudo-"self" published, got picked up by a traditional publisher, and sold something like 60 million copies, supposedly. Whatever her writing may be like, she's clearly a canny…

My Episcopal priest mother would agree with you. She was a devout Christian, but insisted that we learn ethical principles to guide us rather than moral rules. And the Jesus she believed in reflected her fundamentally progressive values.

As some other posters have mentioned, not all Christians (really) are…

I don't think you're picking a nit. I think that comment gives "higher education" too much credit. Plenty of people with graduate degrees practice religion to one degree or another. Our education systems seems to be closing, rather than opening, minds these days. I think it has much more to do with being critical…