It’s a real testament to how perverse what has been considered acceptable is that the harassment, which sadly wouldn’t be too far from the type of scene that air on a CBS procedural, isn’t considered notable, but Eliza Dushku using word that can’t be aired on broadcast TV was. Until someone else saw it. 

Yes, there is a real “where does this culture come from?” aspect of this story. Did Weatherly believe his behavior was okay because he had been playing a variation of it for so long, or does that kind of role exist because men like Weatherly want to justify treating women like that?

As someone who’s been fascinated with Ann Nocenti for years I’m thrilled to see The Seeds on this list. And yes, it’s worth it.

I have to say, before I read this article and I first heard of that this was an incident I thought he was comparing anti-vaxers to (non-black) people who use the N word. As someone pro-autism rights and pro vaccine I’m kind of relieved to clarify his target. It still a mess. 

In theory, I don’t mind Freddy Kruger as a pedophile. In practice, having all his victims with repressed memories and PTSD made it hard to build momentum or audience involvement.

Last week I read Lind Hirschman’s Sisters in Law about the careers of Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A lot of it was about how the failure of the ERA to pass in the 1970s shaped their legal strategies. However, by the end it emphasized how fragile many of those victories were. I would be thrilled if we…

After hearing Linda Hirshman’s appearance on the second season of Slow Burn and a recent Washington Post column reflecting on the legacy of Sandra Day O’Connor, I’ve started reading her book Sisters In Law. It’s fascinating.

Will this include his two time costar Jane Wyman?

I had never heard of this, but it sound amazing.

I’m in my thirties now, so during his presidency, my childhood, I thought things were more or less working as they always did. It would be be years until I understood that I was born at a moment of great historical shifts.

I never saw Stone’s movie, but I’m very interested in how they compare. Even just from the trailers, this looks much less sympathetic to the subject.

As someone who got into Image Comics recently, it’s pretty amazing how little their nineties output is reflected in their current one.

Trump’s attacks of the press and civil rights wouldn’t be possibly without W doing his “if you don’t support me the terrorist win!” schtick for years.

Looks up cast, Sam Rockwell’s playing GWB? I feel safe they’re leaning into his more smug qualities as opposed to doing a dumb rich guy. And Carrell as Rumsfeld? I really have no idea where they’re going with this.

Moonlighting got hit with a perfect storm of complications including both the stars having medical conditions they needed to work around, the series creator/show runner being fired, and the longest writers strike in WGA history. So much more than just “they didn’t know how to write for them as a couple.”

Now I’m thinking of whoa whenever I’ve watched something about behind the scenes with muppets the number of puppet masters at any given time is more than expected. I wouldn’t want to be drunk or hungover in that situation either.

I haven’t read it yet, but I really hope it is a sequel to their earlier Joker.

I could see that being the the case. It’s success led to an increase in both the amount of gross out humor and more over the top bad behavior in protagonists. Generally the results didn’t have a similarly over the dangerous goofiness that Something About Mary did, so the results became less digestible.

Also, as the GOP’s complete disinterest in standing up against most of his policies demonstrates, a lot of is his monstrousness is in line with with the right wing has been doing for decades.

20 years on, I’m more furious with the ways it was treated as an entertaining yarn than I was at the time.