Some people are getting REALLY aggressive in their defense of this photo. It’s bizarre.

People like you are nothing but moon-faced assassins of joy, who take no pleasure in living.

You should watch this clip of Katy Tur taking down a Trump surrogate who is trying to claim that birtherism is no big deal. Tur makes pretty much a similar point as you are making here—and it’s amazing (also depressing).

The Italian justice system is terrible, especially regarding women.

He is more sane than Jill Stein. I’ll give him that.

I hope what comes out of this is that the debate moderators will actually do their jobs (including holding people accountable for the truth: I’m looking at you Chris Wallace).

Everything you’ve said is spot on. Paul Krugman just had an excellent column on the bizarre imbalance in the media’s narrative-I think you might enjoy it. And it’s even more striking given Matt Lauer’s kid-gloved treatment of Trump last night, vs. his constant interrupting of Clinton, once to the point of asking her…

And I’m pretty sure the steam will peter out pretty quickly. . . . because our standards with Trump are so low—and, even when he does something like, I dunno, accuse our president of being the founder of a terrorist organization or insinuate (JOKINGLY!!!) that someone might should murder his political opponent,…

I think that case was more complicated because of Virginia’s rather lax laws regarding political gifts.

Thank god. Seriously, it really has been out and about for several days and has been getting really little coverage. I assume because it’s just regular corruption and not blatant bigotry, which is what we expect from Trump. I’m glad they’re stepping up.

Well, this is likely to do wonders for that whole “women don’t report abuse especially when are marginalized and the abuse is being perpetrated by a person who is in power and even MORE especially when the abuser in power has received that power from the state” thing.

This news has been out for several days and is barely getting any notice by the press. Despite the fact that, hey, people, THIS IS ACTUAL PAY TO PLAY.

This comment could basically be written about any love song (or any song, really). Except for the “hypocrite part” because it literally makes no sense to call an artist a hypocrite for writing about a moment/feeling and then, 20 years later, not having that moment/feeling anymore. Are you a hypocrite because you had…

Jewel’s response is lovely:

Same—I clicked on this article on was fully prepared to be horrified by all everyone piling on Lena Dunham for being awful. . . . and then I read the interview. . . . and wanted to pile on.

I’m down with most of your arguments here. Yes, I think that the creators (and Dunham) think their characters are kind of awful—but I also think that they believe the characters are redeemable and deserving of sympathy. If anything, the show is not well-written enough to comfortably host a cast of despicable…

Are you actually using a youtube comment to bolster your argument?

Interesting! I’ll have to look into it more. . . .I’m not a fan of Verhoeven though. . . .

Not a fan of the rape revenge flick. They’re rarely feminist and frequently exploitative. In these kinds of movies, the end to a rape story is that the rapist gets what’s coming to him—rather than the victim living with years of trauma and potential sadness/isolation within a narrative that never really ends. If these…

What’s amusing about this is that Conway is lauded amongst Republicans for how well she understands “the female vote.” After 2012 (Our Year In Legitimate Rape), she counselled Republicans to never talk about rape again if they wanted women to vote for them. That seemed like a good strategy. . . . . . . .