Another writer dropping in to agree. There’s nothing wrong with using real events in fiction, but if your characters are easily identifiable as real people from your descriptions, then you have a responsibility not to misrepresent them to readers especially if they’re not otherwise public figures.

I’m a writer and tbh that’s bs.

Not really. He's not fully identified to people who didn't know him and he died before the writer of the exposé published it. Better to have the record corrected than be lied about with no rebuttal.

No no this isn’t an entirely legitimate literary practise of taking real world anecdotes, experiences and personalities and crafting a story. It’s that Roupenian singled out a real person and attributed misogynistic behavior to them with no evidence or even first hand experience. And the original story was far more…

Yeah, I know a lot of the response is “Well, it FEELS real enough, and definitely reflects a lot of women’s experiences!” But it’s still very shitty that this person took the real experiences of two people and then just shoehorned in the shitty parts. You’d think you’d be able to craft a convincing narrative that…

good thing they made this movie to further destroy his character. 

Roupenian is a fucking scumbag. She based the characters on two real people and put a great deal of their personal details into the story making them recognisable to anyone who knew them but then entirely made up all the negative stuff that went on, so to the people who knew the couple they’d assume this is what the…

How has anything I said indicated that? But the amount of articles acting as if it were only black people that voted for Doug Jones is ludicrous. Or they’re attacking white people as if white people didn’t vote for Doug Jones at all which is obviously not true. I applaud anyone who voted for Doug Jones. But to say…

I know I’m about to get crucified and I’ve read an enormous amount of academic and pop culture gobbledygook on the matter, but I still don’t understand how cultural appropriation is a bad thing. Nearest I can tell, it pisses people off because of historical injustices.

My preferred Star Wars Blu-Ray box set would be this version:

Probably because Alabama has a majority white population by 66%? And is a traditionally red state? I mean I’ve said it elsewhere but Trump proved Republicans only care about seeing an R next to the politician’s name.

“We are the Disney. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.”

So did only black people vote for Doug Jones? According to social media it definitely seems that way...

I’ve been thinking a lot about how diluted the concept of sexual assault has become lately, and how that must make victims of serious criminal assaults feel. Honestly, it isn’t ridiculous to be concerned that if everything could possibly be construed as assault, eventually someone is gonna use that for some ill, and…

Reminder: If no white people had voted for Doug Jones he wouldn’t have been elected.

If we’re thanking black women for showing up in higher than expected numbers for winning an election, are we also now blaming black women for showing up in lower than expected numbers for losing elections (cough 2016 cough)?

Yeah, the main thing is that he’s old enough that shit like that Occidental “two drunk people choosing to have sex with each other is rape, regardless of what the police officers who investigated the incident conclude” paradigm didn’t exist yet.

I did dumb stuff as a teen (making inappropriate jokes and such mainly among men or online) and did so until my 30s, but when I realized it was wrong, I stopped. I never threatened a woman’s career or showed her porn or smacked her ass or any of that sort of thing. It’s really not hard to avoid that

I don’t know about you, but I never:

Like “Area X” is anything special