I don't think it was bestiality either. And JKR has admitted she mostly used the goat thing as a clue: when Harry first meets him in OotP he notes the bar smells strongly of goats, and a few books previously (I think?) Dumbledore mentioned his brother was arrested for doing something connected with goats or somesuch.

Thanks. I admit I'm coming at this from a very simplistic and uninformed place so I'm not that attached to my opinion.

She doesn't have billions anymore. She's donated hundreds of millions to charities, so she's a multimillionaire now, not a billionaire. I used to worship her, for HP, obviously, but also for her outspoken social views - she says she'd never leave the UK for lower taxes because the welfare state was what allowed her to…

Me. I think once it's done, it's done. I love hearing about her working process - the way she saw things in her head, backgrounds of characters, the way she imagines their future lives - but it's not canon to me. I have my own sidestories to fill in the gaps and JKR's contradicting them doesn't faze me in the least.

Well he did do something illegal to do with goats, Dumbledore says as much himself in one of the earlier books but it's never revealed what exactly. On the other hand, the biography also implies Dumbledore had sexual feelings for Harry, which it utter rubbish. Hey, that could actually be construed as a hint - bigoted…

I personally don't know even a single woman who hasn't been groped at the very least (groping is a form of sexual assault, right?). So to me 44% seems very low. It also depends on how the questions were worded.

I've done that too. And when he turned around to leave, I kicked him in the ass, too. Then I started crying because the groping was super humiliating.

I'm very glad to hear that, but that means the comparison is off. If you've been through it or close enough to know you have to live your life with the constant threat of its happening to you, like it has to so many of the women you know, then it's hard to find humour in jokes where the victim is the punchline. I…

Has that actually happened to you? Has your entire family been slaughtered?

Our dog loves our house slippers. She sometimes drags my mother's pair in the living room and sleeps on them while we're gone.

I'm fairly certain that's Rosie Dublin you're replying to, if you remember her. It's pointless, she's a rabid stan. She starts hurling the C word after three comments, on average.

It isn't, because celebrity women are the women with the most social power - the women these men know they'll never have a chance with, ever, and when they get access to their private pictures and their bodies, it's like they've destroyed that barrier and asserted their rightful place of lording over all women, even…

Yes, women aren't people. Everyone scoffs at this as though it's an overdramatic exaggeration, but it's true. In the world we live in, women are not people. They're a resource meant to be utilised, and if men want to look at naked women, that's their right, if women want privacy, they're restricting access to the…

I didn't mean to sound accusatory, so there's no need for apologies. I just thought you knew something the article wasn't mentioning.

What makes you think she made it up? Why is it hard for you to believe it happened? These are genuine questions, I know you as a great commenter so I assume there must be something specific to make you think it's unlikely that this really happened.

It's the only ad that's made me buy the product without knowing anything about it. It's quite impressive.

This?

That's the thing though. This particular exchange you concocted above is not the truth. It's your imagination. I'd rather consider that Vergara has some agency than think of her as a completely dependent object.

And you know for certain that's what happened?

That may be so. I don't know exactly how much agency she had in this particular issue but I'm reluctant to accept she had none.