I’m really having trouble figuring out the standard here. Nate Parker rapes a woman and his work is boycotted. Kobe Bryant rapes a woman and he gets a day named after him?

Bernie’s problematic, but someone needs to lead the revolution. If not him, then who?

Exactly. The whining purists who quit are so blinded by their self-righteousness they can’t see the bigger picture.

Look, it’s time to grow up. Revolutions cost money. We’re not going to get the radical change we need with $8 web donations and open books. The adults understand this.

These progressive academics are all woke until their own power structure is at stake.

Why doesn’t Jez have trigger warnings?

That approach is fine if the art isn’t socially or culturally important, like Allen’s or Polanski’s. But if it’s woke, then there’s a whole other factor that complicates the matter.

Nate Parker’s status as an up-and-coming black director who made a film of cultural importance about black history doesn’t excuse his having committed rape. But it doesn’t follow that I should feel the same way about his work as I do about Polanski’s. Polanski’s films aren’t woke. Yes, that does make a difference.

I agree. Although it was easier to ditch Cosby because he has had some troubling views about the black community. Parker, on the other hand, seems woke, except of course with respect to sexual assault.

I’m outraged too, but is it that simple? Al Sharpton is defending Parker. He sees the controversy as an attempt by Hollywood executives and the right-wing media to discredit Parker in order to silence the film’s important message.

Everything about these two rubs me the wrong way, but this post also seems a little catty.

Admitting that you poop and fart is overrated.

I’m down with all of them, except No. 1. Do you really think the kind of men who think with their dick (all of them?) are skimping on the self-love? My guess is that they need no reminder to “let go of lust” in that way.

I understand the Uber-hate. Really, I do. But it’s time to move on. Uber and its ilk are here for the duration. People don’t want to be woke as much as they want affordability and convenience.

Does the fact that they had been drinking, don’t recall details, and changed their stories slightly really matter here? There is no such thing as a perfect victim.

Is it possible that this ban is at the same time misguided but well-intentioned? Islamophobic but feministy? Bad as policy but good as consciousness-raising? Mostly wrong but kinda right? Retrograde in a woke way?

The government shouldn’t be telling women what they can or can’t wear. But neither should religion.

Jezebel floated the idea of discussing the charges when the trailer was released in April, and didn’t.

But it IS an important movie. Unlike Woody Allen and Roman Polanski movies. So, yeah, the enlightened media’s treatment of Parker should be different than its treatment of Allen and Polanski.

That’s because this rape is more complicated the ones Jezebel usually reports on.