Yeaaaah. When I read that line about paying based on experience, I was willing to believe that until I saw his very short list of writing credits pre-CRA. She is absolutely right to be outraged. Good for her for walking away. 

Yeah, and I can accept that TV experience doesn’t exactly correlate to movie-writing experience. But a) if experience is the key factor here, surely there’s enough overlap that it should count for something, and b) even if you remove that from the equation entirely, it’s a guy who wrote 2.5 movies versus a woman who…

Nor should her co-writer dude have to give up his money when it’s the studio’s cascade of errors that’s created this gross disparity.

Thank you.  That was exactly where my question was that wasn’t clear in the article.  I think it’s absolutely fair to compensate in line with experience (and a scary, slippery slope to violate that for ‘optics’ reasons.  With what you said then she was right to be outraged and walk away.  It should have been offered…

Trying to justify it by saying these are “industry-standard established ranges based on experience” is especially fucked-up, given the strength of their resumes. He had one movie screenwriting credit and one “story by” credit prior to Crazy Rich Asians. She’d been writing for television for two decades. It’s a flimsy…

Yeah, that whole description needlessly romanticizes a clearly shitty person. He’s not tragic. He’s not Icarus. He’s a serial abuser of women and girls, and because he had a lot of money, rich and powerful men let him get away with it for a long time. The end. 

Is it bad that I really want to buy this, gift it to the Jez staff so y'all can do some awesome destruction performance piece? Crowbars, bats, flamethrowers, and some righteous anger.

“perversely tragic figure” who became “lost in his own fable. Wandering the skies in his private jet, enamored of his own mind and image, he forgot that he was merely mortal and may have flown too close to the sun.”

Yeah, it has nothing to do with sex workers or their rights.  He could give a fuck.  It’s about men and their pee pees.

I get angry at the media whenever they refer to Dershowitz as a ‘civil liberties lawyer’. Perhaps he had been in a past life... sometime last century. But this century he’s mostly known as an outspoken public advocate for torturing prisoners and holding them without charge or judicial review. And that doesn’t even…

He suggested that her claims about Epstein were motivated by a desire for money.

And to think that Once Upon a Time in a Galaxy far, far away, this creep was admired by a lot of people.

There is definitely something really weird and twisted about all this that we aren’t being told.

AP just tweeted that “she issued verbal commands” prior to shooting him...so its already starting.

It’s gotta be time to let drugs/alcohol pass through her system, right? Like a 15 hour shift is actually a 12 hour shift + 3 hours at the bar...

The degree to which the authorities are spinning their wheels over this case is really a reflection of how it represents the absolute worst-case police shooting:

This is a story we need to watch very closely to see how they try to get her off; Their favorite dog whistle of “Black man with a criminal record “ is unavailable because this young man was a college graduate working at a major consulting firm. If or when this case goes to trial I expect them to use their other…

“I’m embarrassed that it came from a City Council person,” Rawlings said.“And I want to set the record straight.”

She always seems really cool, but David Cross seems to me like an absolute douche. I do not like him. I agree that with James Woods that a relationship between a 17-year-old and a 24-year-old is absolutely creepy, but this shit happens all the damn time. And James Woods is a hypocrite - also, Woody Allen has a…