Oh, hooded eyelids can be so sexy.

I thought Larry Wilmore was going to be the lead of the show when I first heard about it. He's probably too old for the character, but I'd love this show with Wilmore as Dre.

I like the show, but I don't love the lead, Anthony Anderson. There's something about him that feels...to soft to be really incisive in his cultural critiques.

Rape has a different meaning culturally than it does in a courtroom. In popular culture, it means sex without consent. Under the law, most jurisdictions require force in addition to lack of consent. In popular culture, it's rape if the victim is too intoxicated to consent. Under the law, some jurisdictions will…

Is there some price for sexual harassment that we deem acceptable? It strikes me as poor corporate policy to spontaneously offer large amounts of cash to anyone who complains about sexual harassment. There was no civil lawsuit or threat of one here. Again, Uber doesn't sound like a great company, but looking at it…

I, like many women who use taxis, was mildly intoxicated, though not drunk. I was also FLEEING from somebody who was sexually assaulting me. I didn't have a pen and paper handy, and I was far more concerned with escaping. Your comment that "you probably know this - but you should have reported that to the police"…

...except that many women actually feel safer in Uber rides. At least there, the passage is logged by the company; the driver's name, phone number and vehicle are emailed to you; and there's an accountability system that addresses a problem with taxi drivers - that they have no interest in customer service because…

It's a risk anytime a woman steps into a taxi, too. I've been a victims of predatory taxi drivers many times.

I don't feel safe in taxis. I've been violently assaulted, sexually assaulted, and verbally harassed - the latter about 50% of the time I took DC taxis. Taxi companies show little interest in regulating their drivers' conduct.

No, they don't. I've been met with total indifference and no follow up. Cab companies historically - and currently - try to avoid legal culpability by claiming that drivers are independent contractors, and attempt to limit their financial responsibilities through corporate fictions. For example, the famous corporate…

On thing to consider: background checks, training, and the like helps establish Uber as an employer, rather than as a company dealing digitally connecting independent contractors and passengers. There's something of a legal disincentive there for that reason.

Well...what's a taxi company? My last taxi driver and I didn't go for drinks afterwards.

I am so sorry. That sounds terrifying. For years, I have tried avoiding taking taxi alone, but sometimes it just isn't possible. You're put in this situation where you are a captive audience, so when the driver starts making sexual advances, it is fucking terrifying. Will this escalate? How do I get out? What do I say…

I am so sorry for your experience. It's really a terrifying thing to get into somebody's car. Even when the comments are "innocuous," it's frightening. You are captive with this person who is inappropriately, unprofessionally treating you in a sexual manner. It's far worse than street harassment.

That is my experience, too. At least Uber followed up with this woman, informed her in general terms about what actions they were taking, and spontaneously offered some form of reimbursement. I'm not saying Uber is the good guy here - it seems they are developing a very checkered history in a rapid period of time, and…

I'm so sorry for your experience.

I was sexually assaulted by a London cabbie while visiting my friend during her summer abroad. I was sexually harassed half the time I took a cab during the three years I lived in DC. It sounds like the objection here is that Uber didn't offer a large financial compensation? I'm curious about people's experiences with…

It's not your story to tell and it's not Barry's story to tell. This is Lena Dunham's story to tell, and it's not your right to gloss over her experiences, dismiss her pain, and paint her in a handful of judging, sexist cliches. I'm am really sick of victims' voices being silenced in this way. This is her memoir, her…

And I respond with my earlier point: Victim's don't owe a duty to the larger society because they have been victimized. They especially don't owe that duty when it comes with an implicit punishment: exposure, humiliation, shame, remote chance of conviction, and all of the frustration, time impositions, inconvenience,…

And if you try and fight every consumer protection battle, you wind up turning into this guy: