“Sure, Dick Cheney got us in the war in the Middle East, and personally helped to engineer the Patriot Act and has destabilized our country for his own profit. But you know, no one talks about the charities he donates to, it’s unfair!”

It’s true, what Vonnegut said. It’s a damn shame Pewdiepie has shown us his whole ass many a time, and it’s not a ‘pretend’ game.

The fact that his fans think he was blackmailed into doing something like this says a lot about who he is as a person. They so strongly believe that he is the racist, hate-filled person they want him to be that they assumed an act of charity was coerced because it was so against his typical behavior. He should take…

As Kurt Vonnegut said, we must be careful who we pretend to be.

He gave a shout-out to a known YouTuber who makes pretty much exclusively hate videos. He paid some people who didn’t understand English $5 to hold up a sign that read, “Death to All Jews.” He has included anti-Semitic “humor” in more than several videos. And in addition to all of that, whenever he gets called out for…

So he’s announced the donation before he made it, meaning the actual donation will probably come from the ad revenue of the video around the donation...

this is like your lifestyle, i guess

What “verifiable evidence” came out against Amber Heard? And how does Asia Argento preying on a 17 year old make Weinstein raping her okay?

The death of Alex Holowka was caused by one person—Alex Holowka. Holowka’s colleagues, friends, and family all found the accusations against him credible and corroborated with other sources. It wasn’t up to his victims to protect him from the consequences of his own actions, however mentally unstable he might be.

“Hey, have you seen that new murder mystery show on Netflix?”

I know, as bad as being falsely accused is, it’s a very rare occurrence.  Also, false “accusations”, as trotted out by these right wing nutjobs, are extremely rare.  The right wing archetype of false accusations is that some woman makes this up out of whole cloth, either because she had consensual sex which she…

If Beale Street Could Talk, To Kill a Mockingbird, Brian Banks, When They See Us

If this is the case I’m thinking of there’s also a This American Life episode about it...

And while women are seven times more likely to be sexually assaulted while in the military, due to the much higher numbers of men in the armed forces, a roughly equal number of men as women are assaulted annually.

Y’know what made me think a lot about sexual harassment discourse recently? Tuca & Bertie.

If we’re talking individual harassment and not systematic like Weinstein, Tuca & Bertie reminded me it’s not as simple as calling out the perpetrator or getting others to believe you. Most of the time you don’t even know what to…

My favorite part of people trying to “truth” the Quinn/Holowka situation is that not only his co-workers admitted that he exhibited extremely troubling behavior even before they learned about the sexual harrassment, but even Holowka’s own sister said she believes Quinn and that she’s aware that he hurt people. There’s…

Hey dummy, there was just a movie made about exactly that called When They See Us. It was kind of a big deal.

False accusations are rare, especially compared to rape. In some places, 50% of the female popular are/will be a victim of sexual assault or rape. Plenty of movies/shows about false accusations already exist.

You can always count on the trolls to be the first to jump out and prove the point of the article by trying to deny it.

Heard them on Fresh Air, and one of the things I took away from what I heard is that many lawyers sure do live up to the shark comparisons. I always complain about people heroicizing celebrities to such a level that they inevitably disappoint, but hearing about Lisa Bloom just makes me think it’s probably safest to jus…