Whether the words were offensive to Jada, the choice of response was hers and hers alone to make. Women are completely capable of defending ourselves, especially from mean spirited and offensive WORDS.

Lol...I just knew an article like this one was heading our way. This kind of logic or interpretation justifies EVERYTHING; excuses everything, however inexcusable the behavior or deed.

Making America Great Again!

Yeah. This seems to be the part no one gets. The tweets that tend to get people into trouble on Twitter tend to be the same kind of statements that would keep you from being invited back to somebody’s house if you said them at a party. You might not get called out the same way because people tend to avoid direct…

This isn’t Ken Jennings being canceled, this is Mike Richards using cancel culture to clear a path for himself in his bloodthirsty failed coup. Richards couldn’t possibly have cared less about an “ableist” tweet from 2014 (he said far worse things on his podcast and behaved far worse at his prior jobs), he just knew…

Well fucking said!! I lived through the 80s and at the time, it didn’t seem that bad (I was in middle school and high school though).

Everytime someone says “please keep your politics out of X” to someone it’s always pretty clear that it translates to “please spare me from the observations of another human as the idea of having my personally held beliefs challenged in any way is terrifying”.

Ah yes, the “keep ur politics our of mah games.” And by politics, I of course mean anything that questions the rah rah America mentality that afflicts so many people in this country—that and women.

Ronald Reagan was a piece of shit towards anyone that wasn’t a straight white male.  Unless you thought the “War on Drugs”…

“I lived them, it wasn’t so bad” - probably because you’re the exact type of person Reagan and his administration liked - a white, straight, neurotypical , middle class American man. I know it’s the big scary no-no word these days, but y’know what that’s called? Privilege. It’s best you start recognizing you lived a…

It’s like Vine, which is like America’s Funniest Home Videos, which is like Candid Camera.

This is a perfect summary of what it’s okay. I teared up reading it.

Doubly sad because both actors were totally down for it! Such a missed opportunity for all kinds of reasons.

And if that the righteous takedown of Berman on YouTube is to be believed (and I believe it), that relationship was created explicitly to get him away from Garak and “straighten” him out. (Sad face)

Came here to say this as well. No mention of Roxanne Dawson and her role as a strong STEM woman.

I oft skip scenes with Bashir and Dax. I get really uncomfortable watching sexual harassment. I find Dax’s reactions to be odd too.

Good piece. I wish it would have explored Roxann Dawson a bit. She actually did manage to parley her Voyager character into a career writing and directing.

Had to come pretty far down the comments, but thank you for this. Voyager is still one of my favorite Star Trek series. Janeway is amazing. She can be tough and tender, assertive and vulnerable. She has no days off. She inherits two very disparate crews and has to fuse them together. And the Seven arc is one of the…

That was my initial takeaway when I first watched Voyager too - “holy shit, a woman is giving orders and she doesn’t have to be an overassertive bitch to get stuff done!”

I also have a theory that Kira and Dax’s scenes together and individual non-romantic solo storylines take a dive later in the series to build the Bashir/O’Brien bromance. The next time I do a watch through I’m absolutely going to track it to see if I’m right.

I recently rewatched some episodes of DS9 for the first time since it aired and I was surprised at how much sexist shit was in there.  Between Bashir and Quark, it was pretty much always #MeToo O'clock on the promenade.  I seriously doubt someone like Dax would have put up with Bashir's constant propositioning.  And I…