I love 99 (actually watching it right now) and I love Gina’s character (all of them are great). But you make a good point. I assume (hope) it will stop now that she’s pregnant and with someone. Your point stands though.

I think she is saying it is similar in that it is a form of abuse as hinted by her last line:

As I read it, the accident/incident was like the icing on a very disgusting cake. That her trust in men was already pretty shaken up, but that this fight with Tarantino, the fact that he made her do it, she had no control, and the subsequent accident put her over the edge. But NYT could use a good copy editor, jeez.

He used himself as a stunt double for those particular shots (which didn’t need stuntmen, so he chose to do them for his jollies), but he wouldn’t provide Thurman with a stunt double for a shot that absolutely required one (and if they were shooting in Hollywood - under studio, union, and insurance company supervision…

I think the suggestion is that Tarantino was projecting his own feelings towards Thurman at that stage of the shoot, and that’s why he personally volunteered to spit at her instead of using another actor.

It’s just kind of creepy that he would WANT to be the person doing the assaulting rather than letting either the other actor or a stunt coordinator do it. It sounds like he was getting off on it.

No doubt, this is more a reflection of Maureen Dowd’s poor writing, but I found the piece very confusing, with details that were jarring and unnecessary (her father thinks she’s a reincarnated buddhist goddess?), and lack of other details that would have been helpful. Like, Weinstein is a fucking monster, we know…

I’m looking forward to this bringing down Tarantino. Overrated hack

For a guy like that it’s the dinner bell.

Of course the white dude who positioned himself as a champion for women of color in an especially racist industry ends up being an absolute turd. Because this is the world we live in. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise.

Wasn’t he in the lost boys with Corey Feldman and Corey Haim?

“And it really wasn’t in my case, I would say, ‘til well into my 30s, that I was really able to do heavy lifting on this stuff.”

Not only that, but I haven’t met too many people who are on the ground rescuing animals in their communities who have a very high opinion of the HSUS. They’re kind of notorious for swooping in for the photo ops and then leaving with a lot of work to be done, which diverts the attention (and donations) from local…

As a dude I cannot answer that.

This is probably a good time to remember that the Humane Society of the United States is NOT affiliated with your local humane society / animal shelter.

It’s a garbage organization run by garbage people - glad to see they’re on to him for SOMETHING. Mr. “we have no problem with extinction of domestic animals” Pacelle. Who took a big donation from Michael Vick’s team then (totally unrelatedly) declared that he’d been redeemed and would be perfectly fine as a pet owner…

This is my thought, too.

This makes no sense. There are plenty of disabled and mobility-impaired people in prison. Go research what happens to elderly inmates on life sentences.

Frankly I barely understand how you can work as a cook while legally blind. You’re supposed handle knives AND fire in that job. On top of that take this girl to some remote place, tie her up, and rape her.... is he like the Daredevil of sexual assault?

How does the fact that he was blind mean he wouldn’t need to serve time? Surely if he was able enough to work as a cook and tie up and rape a 13 yo, they would be able to accommodate his needs in prison as well?