But my point isn't about what women had to (and have to) put up with; my point is about why we continue to act as if this kind of behavior is simply a matter of men not knowing any better. That isn't "giving people credit," that's making excuses to a ludicrous extent that continues to allow harassers a shield to hide…

At that point I decided I could not take a single question of "medical ethics" on this show seriously. I mean, that wasn't even a question of an error in medical judgment; it was completely out of her own personal desires.

And it massively overvalues the effectiveness of "education" or training for people who think they've done nothing wrong. In my experience, at BEST you end up with someone who stops overt harassment, but generally remains incredibly resentful and passive-aggressive—which can have the same effect as retaliation, but…

What is the gap that allows an intelligent person to think putting public hairs on someone's drink is appropriate? How do you "teach" that on a rational/logical aspect—and frankly, how long should the "intelligent people" who are the victims of harassment have to wait for "serious education" to reach people who are…

"I know lesbians like saltines. . ." and I was dying.

eeek, from the wiki (I was a toddler in 83) and had to look it up:

:whimpers: Oh, Martha.

Idk, I don't think she really had to worry to much about that by 1994—she'd done risky stuff before. I think in this case she genuinely felt torn between the systemic racism and the domestic abuse issues as both being causes that matter to her.

I kind of like how he's been implying he based his performance as much on all the asshole producers in Hollywood as Shapiro.

Really? Do you have a quote? Everything I've seen has Cuba Gooding demurring, and Sterling Brown gave a lengthy interview in March about why he celebrated the verdict then but doesn't now.

Agreed to both—my ambivalence about a Katrina plotline has been that they will try to do too much, instead of letting a single story play out as a prism/microcosm the way they so did so well this season. And good suggestion—I remember reading the original Sheri Fink article the book grew out of, either in the NYT…

I remember after the first episode all these quotes about how Kardashian would be the heart of the show or the moral compass or something, and I came around on Schwimmer's performance, but to me this was the Marcia Clark show first and foremost. And I loved it.

Also, I have a feeling that if I dug into it I might have mixed feelings (as seems to be the trend), but in a certain kind of book (Wilkie Collins fangirl!) I have such a fondness for the Scottish verdict "not proven" and wonder what it would be like to have that.

heh, I did mean directly addressed them grammatically, not literally—I'm teaching composition and we've been spending a lot of time on commas this week. But that would definitely suggest to me that it was very much intended to get back to the jurors, and it still seems pretty absurd for Ito to allow it, in my…

Well, especially since he directly addressed them, at least on the show! (the bit about having more faith in their integrity than "Miss Clark.")

I was not paying all that much attention at the time, but last night I was so shocked that he was allowed to make a statement to the jury without being sworn in or cross-examined. That just seems completely insane to me! Is that something that happens? I mean, I always thought that was part of the deal—you aren't…

I know I'm an enemy of fun, but never have I been so grossed out by confetti. It looks like she had a terrible skin rash, or that "full Pocahontas" meant a fun and kicky! representation of smallsparklepox.

Yeah, a million years ago (when I was in high school) I did a huge project about deinstitutionalization—how the states went all in on the "yeah! institutions are inhumane! One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest! Shut them down!" and then totally failed to follow through, financially or bureaucratically on pretty much every…

My memory of early in the show was Ian's medication being part of a power struggle between him and Fiona, which isn't exactly the pinnacle of support.

I don't remember that, but it's possible—but that also wasn't how it was portrayed at all. And if she did, I'm not sure they would be offering her "distance learning" which still implies some level of enrollment/potential to receive credit.