Counterargument thread to Kirkman thread:

A Rape in Cyberspace, from 1993: http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle_vv.html

Reporter Nikki Delamotte was murdered last week, killed by her uncle in a murder-suicide. Her job as a reporter may or may not have been the reason she was killed, but her murder made journalists more afraid nonetheless.

C’EST MAGNIFIQUE

Yes, we then transport all the rapists to the MOON

This is your annual reminder that Meg Ryan’s romcom “French Kiss” is not available on any streaming service, which is a tragedy. Kevin Kline with a French accent!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women_Men_Don’t_See

Ask A Manager gives some concrete advice about asking for raises:

Routh is so ridiculously endearing as Ray Palmer/Atom on “Legends of Tomorrow.” The ensemble focus makes it easier to play chipper Boy Scout Ray off different characters, which makes it easier to see how other characters get exasperated by Ray’s dorky earnestness but are also fiercely loyal to him, because Ray makes…

FUCK. how do we give the Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning to a Canadian?

I am super excited to see Jenny Slate in “Venom.” I know that Michelle Williams is supposed to be the Venom movie love interest, but I will be mentally rewriting the movie with Jenny instead. Give Jenny the kinky tentacle monster loving from Tom Hardy!

Trump’s brain ATM

Not all sex workers are prostitutes. Strippers, burlesque dancers, professional dom/mes and findoms, sex phone hotline workers, nude models who sell their erotic photos, cam models who livestream themselves naked on the Internet, etc.—they’re all involved in sex work, though they may never have sex with or even touch…

The Krasinski link to People is broken, FYI. 

If you can dig up a first edition of “The Tale of Genji,” you’ll probably walk off with all the money in Japan!

That’s literally more than I make in a year. 

>>FACT: Jane Austen was the first canonical female author.

It’s not a joke, it’s the name of a Korean webtoon/comic about a serial killer. https://www.lezhin.com/en/comic/killingstalking

I’ve always liked the Cover Girl tie-in products for The Hunger Games, if only because the books emphasized how much makeup and superficial appearances were Serious Business in that dystopia.

“Last year, it was announced that Jay-Z was producing (along with a pre-disgraced Weinstein Company)”