Yup. Read about this whenever it first hit the press and their relationship was the height of dysfunction. Sounded like he used her computer while carrying on dalliances (what a smart dude) and so she installed this spyware to read his keystrokes? But the weird part was that he sort of knew about it?

I’ll respond to your points as you presented them, but to be clear of course I am talking in generalizations. What I am attempting to do is reject the broadest generalization which is how people on the far left and far right perceive and respond to immigration at all in most western countries, including, the US,…

Honestly what harm are you talking about? His kiss that may or may not have been on the cheek or lips or who knows? His defending his work? You read the Globe’s coverage?

Dude my friends are Pakistani muslims who’ve since become naturalized American citizens. And they have family in England. They’re from an affluent already westernized background. A prior to these mass migrations of refugees, thats what a number of Europes Muslims were. There were also many poorer Turkish, Algerian,…

“Status” is not the same as “high status”. There is no absence of status. Your partner does not have no status. You do not have no status. It is a heirarchy. I know you believe that. Some people are more attractive to other people on that heirarchy for certain status elevating factors. Looks, job, etc. As I said, like…

Literally not rapey. Adding a “y” is just an attempt to slowly move the goalposts under the auspices of cute language. He didn’t rape anyone. That we are aware of.

Everyone in the world uses their status to their advantage in consensual sex. How can you not? It is like asking someone to check their privilege. Okay, sure, but how does that work? Diaz didn’t offer her anything. Every other thing you mention makes him an asshole. I guess I should start publicly citing the women who…

Oh I actually don’t disagree with you at all. My point on that front was that hetero women, however they present, were insecure about essentially their increased power. Admittedly a funny notion in the present political climate. And needed to feel or to present as more traditionally feminine. That said, there are of…

Does Liz Lemon (you don’t have to follow me here but that’s okay) not have kids because of her career, because she is attracted to Dennis’ of the world, because she has unreasonable expectations, or because she herself is not desirable to whatever you might peg as the middle ground version of a man? I think the…

I take it you’ll be manning the guillotine until they put you in line? Guess I’ll see you there.

Yup! She will probably win. Which is obviously a good thing. She’s in an easy Democratic district. But this is not the victory the far left is making it out to be. We are simply repeating the same cycle the tea party cycled through that led to a completely intractable government. There are a number of issues where…

Wow. In my memory Barkley was fatter. 

If enough people cry wolf, eventually a genuine accuser will be met by skepticism (not fair questions but genuine skepticism) and scorn. While it’s easy enough to find those folks on the right side of the spectrum, we have to be fair and acknowledge that the right also saw a number of folks toppled (not the dickhead…

One way is to fight false narratives that started proliferating in the right wing media. That is very hard though. I remember not so long ago the NYT or the Guardian did a poll that showed Europeans thought there were twice as many Muslim immigrants as there actually were. Very similar to anti-latin immigrant rhetoric…

Let’s be real here though about when these accusations were leveled. All of these are very similar. Franco was up for a Golden Globe and a shoe in for an oscar nod. Aziz had won a Globe and was going to win an Emmy. Diaz got a lot of love for writing about his experience being raped.

I get that I wrote glibly about Franco’s accusers. That was done in poor taste but I do consider their accusations against him in poor taste and a low moment for MeToo. (Edit: Because I missed your extended bit about Franco. It may seem unfair, but my genuine, though tonally problematicly phrased, response to Franco’s…

What? That’s not this at all. What you are proposing is a system of responding to allegations that includes no investigation and no attempt to verify them. If we can’t sort through how people behave in relation to incidents, we are living in a state where anyone can accuse anyone of anything.

Love your handle. And yes, not surprised at all by those stories. He’s a dick. He’a written whole books about it. He was also raped as an 8 year old boy. I’m not sure what sort of social grace we’re willing to offer someone who is literally a “survivor” in that parlance, but being a jerk to people isn’t ruining their…

I agree with the point you are making via sarcasm, but I think this goes beyond even that point. Diaz was investigated. One of his accusers is even pissed what she said got lumped into MeToo stuff (I’m not sure if her annoyance is fair. Was her original tweet furnished with #metoo?). One of his accusers has been…

If MeToo is broadened to be about assholes, then it has lost its true north. The only substantial accusation (every other accusation is of Diaz being a jerk and even those are insubstantial on the jerk spectrum) is that he kissed Clemmons. She refuses to say where.