I think people often have a hard time separating “I don’t want to believe this” from “this isn’t true.” I don’t want to believe this. Hell, I didn’t want to believe it about Cosby back when his first accusers spoke up.

If he did it, I don’t doubt he doesn’t remember it. It goes back to the imbalance of interactions between celebrities and non-celebrities, and how significant those moments are in each party’s life. For Takei, this was just another man. For the accuser, it was Sulu from fucking Star Trek. The encounter probably…

The thing is, sexual harassers usually have a pattern of behavior. Takei has been in a monogamous married relationship for over 30 yrs now with no other accusations of infidelity or harassment.

Yeah, I’m not ready to believe the accusation since it’s only one person (unlike many similar accounts, as we’ve seen with other celebrities in the past few weeks) and since it seems like too ideal a smear against a politically involved gay man, but Takei’s response left something to be desired. The reference to how…

Remember when we hated 2016 for killing all the famous people we loved? Good times, man.

And it was a hideously inappropriate thing to say about ANYONE, let alone a minor. It doesn’t matter if a person is closeted or wears a Lesbian Avenger tee shirt every day, public speculation about their sexuality is gross and wrong.

He publicly said a closeted person was gay. Yes, he outed her.

If I understand right, he’s claiming that God touched that girl in an act of immaculate molestation.

“Take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus.”

It’s amazing how the more that kids were something planned rather than something that just happened, the expectations around parenting have changed.

Law & Order: SAG-AFTRA

I had a roommate who cut his toenails into the ashtrays and left them there. When I confronted him with the revolting evidence he shrugged and said that at his mom’s house (where he had lived up to the point when he moved into our shared apt) “the ashtrays were emptied on a regular basis”. Not by him, of course. By…

I don’t get it, either. Admittedly, my beloved stepdad is not the best at some things (this is a man who will not open the fridge to get himself a snack because it might need to go in the microwave—he’ll cheerfully subsist on goldfish crackers and takeout), but he does literally all of the laundry, manages house…

She’s mad because Jezebel didn’t listen when she said, “No.” Shouldn’t be hard to understand.

This. THIS.

For me, the issue was always with how Gawker/Jezebel handled the Kirkman story rather than the need to believe that Louis was innocent. I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but I’ve read several articles on these sites where that Kirkman comment was contributed to being about Louis even after she denied that who…

No offense, but if I was a victim of sexual harassment (or pretty much anything else), I would be much more likely to go on record with a 166 year old print newspaper journalist than I would a website journalist. Especially if it meant that fucking it up could mean the end of my career or libel lawsuits.

I guess I don’t get how you can play the “we’re doing real journalism” card when the NY Times busted the story wide-open with 5 sources in what, a few weeks since the Weinstein stuff broke? And you’ve supposedly had it for years?

I don’t think I’m going to be crying over Kirkman’s treatment of Jezabel, sorry. Sounds like ya’ll sicced the flying monkeys on her and then said “well we didn’t tell them to bite you!” when she got mad. The fact that she screwed up the exact particulars of which monkey bit who, when, while recounting it in a heated…

“Our readers don’t have to and shouldn’t take our word on something just because we publish it”