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    I’d really love it if Jezebel writers could do better about ableist language. We’re all learning and we have to know better to do better, but I’m really fucking tired of seeing “lame” turn up in headlines, and “dumb” used to describe a thoughtless person. Here, you’re using, “ah-duhhhhhhhh” to make a joke about…

    THANK YOU. Yeah, there’s an important conversation to be had about why it’s easier for people to believe allegations against black men, AND about why it’s easier for people to believe victims who are women... there are intersections of racism and homophobia in Jackson’s case. I’m still kind of in awe that so many…

    There aren’t any zombies, but...

    NOPE. More people voted in a the general election than in the primary. You’re comparing two incompatible numbers and claiming that the difference proves a point.

    A $5 donation for buying a $120 pair of shoes? I love the design, but’s that’s just a few nickels more than sending “thoughts and prayers”.

    Why are you assuming that people who have blacked out aren’t also out in the streets, canvassing, speaking at rallies, and making their voices heard in other ways? I’m really fucking sick of people telling women that we’re bringing the wrong weapons to this fight. People who blacked out their profile might very well…

       

    Aaaaand it took less than an hour for DerpithLederp to “whatabout” my post about whataboutism. The universe is folding in upon itself. Fuck all the way off, then fuck off some more.  

    Can we please have a “whattaboutism” filter in the comments section on Root articles? If your comment starts with some version of “But what about...” or “How come you’re not talking about...”, no one needs to see it. I’m getting really tired of skimming over people’s 500-word essays on why no one is allowed to talk…

    “I am a man and I have never even thought close to [the...expectation that men are entitled to women — to their time, to their attention]”

    Very few women in Cosby’s, Weinstein’s OR Louis CK’s cases could give full consent. All of these men were in positions of power. The distinction you’re drawing based on whether they were turned on by the abuse, or just by the perceived admiration, is not relevant to any of the victims. Whether it’s the “dream of the…

    I would never have thought to pull those Bancroft quotes into the Louis CK conversation- brilliantly done. Finding his work was crucial for me getting through a very ugly (ongoing) custody battle with my abuser, and sharing Bancroft’s work (the book you mentioned, plus “The Batterer as Parent”) helped my family…

    I died in childbirth. Many games later, I lived until 41, where I died of old age, remembered as a great queen and a fine royal wife. That, I suppose, contains the entire spectrum of what a woman’s life can be.

    Same, and I had a big ol ‘crush on Ashcroft in the early 2000zees.

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    I have nothing useful to add, but like a cishet white dude I’m gonna add something anyway: Richard Ashcroft wants his look back. Oh... wait... no, sorry. He says you can keep it.

    “Google has failed me a bit in finding a comprehensive discussion of the subject”

    Cool. Let’s never date.

    I get it. You don’t think this was so bad. Here’s a counter: if we accept that it WAS bad, it means that many of us have to accept that we have also been assaulted, and that many of us have assaulted people because we didn’t bother to care how they felt. I get that you don’t want to accept that -you and 80% of the…