I know people are mostly using this post for yucks, but I feel terrible for Luck. I hate how the NFL gets to chew up and spit out young QBs like cheap, truck stop gum*. Shitty franchise with drug addict legacy owner puts nitwit in charge of personnel to complement and protect talented, no-lose draft pick they…

Actually, I think she does know her point. Her point is to say words that will keep her employed by Fox News.

I’m sure her hush money was set up so that she couldn’t even consent to something like this story. Which is why hush money is counter to the public good. This story is important. I feel like since she tried to seek public justice and her name and the basics of the situation are known, the potential public good here…

So his response to getting sexual harassment training was to rape someone else? Good to know.

Methinks they might want to look again at the training program. I’m not necessarily blaming it. He may have just been an enraged, entitled misogynist who was going to escalate regardless of what the training was like. But it’s…

I dig a lot of your writing, and I was skimming this to see whether I wanted to dig in. But that line about him being an expert on government caught my eye and just — no. NO. The way he set up and talked about this campaign proved he knows literally NOTHING about governance. He seems surprised that Debbie Wasserman…

Also, how many are not Oxbridge/aristos, other than Shakespeare? (Let’s just aside all the nonsense about how ONLY an aristocrat could have written the sonnets, Hamlet, etc.) Of course, the class/misogyny nexus is like chocolate and peanut butter, amirite? The oppression is conquered peoples is just the icing on top.

As…

Except wasn’t part of the whole SXSW fuckup that they let the GG panel in from the side instead of going through the regular submission process?

That being said, SXSW repositioning itself this quickly is a huge progressive win. I’m guessing that the social media firestorm made a difference, but I doubt that alone…

It’s in the reports. It’s in this post. She took out her cell phone, briefly. Then she refused to leave class. That’s what she did. For that, she was beaten by a man more than twice her size.

She was recently orphaned. Poor child. If her teacher knew that and called in Officer Slam, that’s reprehensible.

Gremlins are starting to seem like a valid solution to to a host of systemic problems...

Replying to my own post because somehow the second sentence got mangled by gremlins (yeah, that’s the ticket: GREMLINS). It should have read, “Men hurt women because society says it’s okay to — not just okay, but preferable.”

Whatever “corporate feminism” might be, I don’t think she’s even that. She’s no flavor of feminist. She’s a privileged woman who isn’t even willing to help other privileged women in any real way. “Leaning in” is another way of saying “you all keep blaming yourselves, while those of us in the know will use our personal…

But social shaming is a thing that can work. Men hurt women because society it’s okay to — not just okay, but miserable. You want to be a real man? Let women know when they’re walking down the street that they are nothing but a hole and ALWAYS vulnerable to your desires. That’ll teach ‘em to put their energy into…

Nah, he’s lying. I read a longer version of the quote on another site; he claims not to get math. In reality, he’s made a living since before he became famous flipping houses. I think he still does it, just for fun, and because he’s good at it. That’s a gig where you need to be very good at business and very good at…

It is sort of amazing that even the daughters of wealthy white men can’t be treated as people of value in our justice system when white men of lower status rape them. It’s so telling: having a vagina lowers your status when in any other situation money rules. (Same as the St. Paul’s rape, fundamentally.)

Marlborough…

I’m deeply conflicted about this. There is excellent evidence that the sex offender registry has massive, negative unintended consequences, putting people on the list it was never intended for, over penalizing others, and ALSO backfiring, in that truly serious, compulsive sexual predators are less likely to reoffend…

There is no correct way to avoid being raped. IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT. I had a friend, decades ago, who blamed herself as she died on the operating table because she fought back. She did everything “right” — she was a Harvard graduate “good girl”. I no longer remember exactly how she ended up in that building, but I…

Hoo. Wow. Okay.

My fervent hope (based on the coverage; I haven’t watched the show) is that in three years when he picks Effie up at the airport he apologizes to her as her opens her door.

Also, it’s so cute how artistry in Hollywood filmmaking is framed as being the “director’s vision” and the director is ALWAYS male, when in fact, quite often throughout Hollywood history the director is just a traffic cop and the artistic message is being driven more by the screenplay, which at least sometimes women…

You’re right. I misread you. I apologize for that. I don’t know how I missed your conclusion, but I did. But I still think calling out ESPN and Schefter, while insufficient on its own, is worth doing. There’s no guarantee, of course, but sometimes these things do build up enough of a head of steam under the right…