We are painting everyone with the same brush. Spacey was fired, and faces possible criminal charges. Moore needs to be not elected with possible criminal charges. Franken needs to be censured with a mechanism for removal if it happens again. The thing is, while it’s not as bad as rape or pedophelia, we also need…

If you’re calling for Franken to resign over this, then yes, you’re saying it’s the same because you want him to face the same consequences as men who have done much worse. Roy Moore for instance, no one is expecting him to go to jail, but they want him to step down from the election. So why should the punishment be…

I hesitate to be too quick to agree with you, because I don’t know if I do or if I’m just happy to hear someone defending him articulately. As a liberal, it’s nice to hear a good argument for our side.

All of that may be true, but the victim has forgiven him, and said that she wasn’t interested in him losing his job. She just wanted to tell her story, make a point about how even “joking around” shit can be traumatic, and said on the record that she is good.

Regarding Al Franken: His actions were horrible, but at what point do we can we stop painting everyone with the same brush? He was a comedian, albeit one that I never found particularly funny. He’s clearly joking in the one picture that I saw, and grabbing someone’s butt during a photo in the past sounds like a…

Some would want to examine the quality of the consent. Whether coercion is a factor.

Consider yourself part of the conversation.

That means that not only are men manipulative people more likely to ask in the middle of sex when aroused, but their partners are more likely to say yes.

Am I the only person who is baffled by the headline?

You’re doing an awful lot of projecting onto Ariely’s pretty bland statement that both the asking and the agreeing are mistakes. For one, you seem to be suggesting, or at least hinting at the possibility, that the author’s sex partner had a premeditated plan to manipulate her. You don’t know that; he too could have…

That awesome moment someone on a video game blog is a better investigative journalist this half the media in the nation. Anyway, I believe he is lying(it’s obvious) but I don’t say that to be mean to him. I wonder what was his reason for doing something like this? It seems very strange. I hope this gets an update.

Oh, dear God in heaven, when they start in on Wall Street. The Times will have include a sexual harrassment magazine with the Sunday edition. You’d have to be a New Yorker to realize how instantly despicable so many of those guys are. Their very existence is a form of harrassment, and that comes across when they’re…

Due to mass disqualifications across the board, this year’s winner in all categories is...The Emoji Movie!

“Welcome to the 90th Annual Academy Awards. We’re going to start with a ten minute scrolling list of all the people we have expelled from the Academy this year, as well as all of the current nominees who are now disqualified.”

Heyyyy, maybe they’ll be able to write romance storylines that aren’t creepy as fuck on that show now! And even give Iris a little agency!

A hefty FU to the multitudes of Gawker/Jezebel readers who flooded my comment a year or two ago angry because I said this guy’s brand of anti-sexist anti-racist comedy was itself sexist, racist and not particularly funny. I believed the rumors from the start. Also, as a man myself, believe me when i say C.K. is a…

This sounds like a recycling of the “hire the smile and teach the skill” method for filling positions.

Putting your feet on the food tray is completely disgusting. What the hell is wrong with people?

...and even if it IS desirable product, that doesn’t magically not make it a pyramid scheme.

You only have to graze nuts to make a guy feel like he wants to vomit. But for it to actually trigger the vom reflex, your strike has to be on point, accurate, and either ferociously hard and sharp, or savagely strong and grippy for a few seconds.