I don’t know if she would’ve changed her mind but that’s not the point (for me). Even if she hadn’t changed her mind - I just don’t think we can afford, anymore, to spend so much time attacking people on our own side when there are so many very powerful people who are fabulously, unambiguously NOT on our side. sauvage…

I think you’re wrong. And it’s funny because, in thinking you’re wrong, I wrote a long judgmental screed about how judgmental you’re being. Which I read and deleted (just barely). I guess hypocrisy is the one fault we all get to share in equally. Lisa Bloom is pointing out something that’s demonstrably true:…

Sorry but what is the justification for this sum-up, exactly? She has represented women against powerful adversaries (Cosby, O’Reilly, The Boy Scouts, the LAPD, the Catholic Church) in cases of sex discrimination, harassment, civil rights violations etc., for decades. What percentage of powerful, high-profile…

Man, the greys. Even when you make a comment, someone replies, and then you just write back on your own thread, you’re back to grey. The least they could do is play a ringtone of Elvis singing In the Ghetto every time one of us greylings tries to crawl out of the gutter.

HA. Well, I agree. And your personal example is such a great illustration of how complicated it really is. I wish it were more possible, more of the time, to talk/think about sexuality as strange and interesting - something to be curious about - instead of as mainly a moral playing field with absolute good guys and…

The relationship between porn and the sexual behavior of porn-consumers is complicated and not clearly understood by anyone. Arguing that there’s no evidence for a link between the rising pervasiveness of rough-to-violent porn and a rise in aggressive behavior within standard “consensual” sex is, itself, specious. And…

Such a strange, alien, never-discussed thing about getting older - the experience of stopping things. All the time you’re growing up you’re thinking about when things will start: when you’ll get to play touch football with the bigger kids, when you’ll first get to kiss someone, when you’ll be old enough to drink or…

Quackin’ Kate Bush.

She’s “at least woke on a lip-service level”? Nice of you. Maybe fuck off a little, Rich. I know it’s unfashionable but I’m so tired of the constant gate-keeping by the ever-shrinking clique still allowed inside the Wokeness Treehouse. “No White Feminists Allowed!” says the hand-painted sign on the door - exceptions…

I’m excited for this series. Also: I felt like I was seeing an un-shocking irony in that the preview for this ladycentric show about the lack of ladycentric shows seemed to be largely dominated by men, just in terms of spoken lines. So I counted. Turns out the preview’s not male-voice-dominated per se. Women voice 184…

Exactly. Beyond furious. Beyond exhausted. Also white - and full of no good ideas about how we change this. I make angry phonecalls and write angry emails all the time. The people who do this shit and the people in charge of them do not care what I think or say, especially now that they’ve installed their chief goon…

Personally, (or white-personally, since I am that)(hang on I made up a word I like)

The Last of Us isn’t fun? I think your description is off and could keep people from buying this amazing game - still one of my absolute favorites after playing a number of the others on this list (and some that have been recently cut from the list). Just because it’s dark doesn’t mean it isn’t fun.

Jesus, Jesus, why so aaaaaangry? Anna did the work to take a gentle tone. Seems pretty clearly hypocritical to escalate the shittiness while calling someone shitty.

That’s not what a fool’s errand is, tho.

I’m having a stretch of work where I need to not indulge my Jezebelling desires right now, but I didn’t want to fail to reply to your reply to my reply to your reply to my reply to... Zio-bots. So: I’ll check out the link and will try to be a conscientious reader of whatever I find there.

I appreciate your thoughtful reply. Appreciate it even more when scanning through the later comments where (if I’m reading right) you’ve got Locomotive Jones calling you a “piece of shit” and Bullterrierterror saying “Fuck this cunt and you” (as a leadin to that bizarre pumpkin-pie metaphor. Huh?). I don’t know why…

I try never to troll in an obvious manner. Also I’m not trolling. I read your opening line as a proud declaration that you’d done some very superficial research on Shire and now felt comfortable dismissing her entirely. Which seems lame (and arguably trollish). I don’t know what I think of her myself but I wouldn’t…

It’s just that there aren’t any Zio-bots - or if there are, I think you’re being too easy on yourself in applying the label to anyone on the other side of this issue. I went and looked at your profile and some of your past comments - just wondering where you’re coming from. It’s so easy to get into debates on these…

Well, I agree with everything you’re saying except, maybe, that last bit. Arguably folks like IAmTheLight are the newer lefter left, and it’s a left that is (from my POV) becoming so doctrinaire in its positions and so rigid in its particular, intolerant take on identity politics that it has nothing but scorn for,…