“There are obviously a lot of unknowable factors that informed Netflix’s decision to cancel all those talk shows. Their cancellations are not a reflection of their quality—certainly not in the case of The Break With Michelle Wolf, which took some time to get its footing, but was full of the kind of uncompromising,…

Fair point, but that’s an “after-the-fact Dave Becky trying to bury things” problem, not a “Louis CK coerced them into it because of the implication” problem.

I’m not in the slightest surprised at the former took place after the deed was done (especially once CK got huge), but suggesting the latter is a pretty large…

Louis is pretty open about how he’s into shame and humiliation. He always characterises himself as sad and inadequate. Public emasculation is pretty much his whole thing. Yet you’ve projected this entire domination fantasy onto him - twice - that’s all about him degrading women. despite the fact that we already know…

IDK, I’m pretty sure asking and getting a “yes” would be sufficient in most situations where you didn’t have control over someone’s career. No need to kink-shame.

It seems like the instance where he abused his power was the incident on the Chris Rock show where he was someone’s boss. The other times are weird, inappropriate, and gross but consensual as far as he knew.

It’s Barsanti. He does literally zero fact-checking, and his articles generally have at least one glaring error like this.

It’s a stretch to say she enabled him. I was friends with benefits with a guy once. We consensually decided that usual boundaries between friends didn’t need to exist between us. That doesn’t mean he had license to go out and do the same to other people without their consent.

She’s allowed to engage in whatever consensual behavior she wants. The issue her is harassment and abusive behavior. By definition those issues don’t apply to consensual behavior.

bad take

Who the fuck are you to tell her who she is and isn’t allowed to let masturbate in front of her?

If she doesn’t care, why should you? Two situations are not the same. One was consensual. The other was not.

What is with all the lies? Why are my fellow progressives playing Trump's tune for him? This is why Warren was caught off guard by the reaction. 

No-one on the left is saying Warren is anywhere near as awful as Trump, but on this occasion her actions are not helping.

Im sort of in the same boat. One side of my family tree is definitely from Europe. Whether they were Jewish or not is one giant question mark. What I do know is they hated Nazis and fireworks.

Exactly. She’s not claiming or expecting anything except to prove an asshole wrong. It’s really past time that Democrats/Progressives/Liberals stop being so nice and get our hands dirty and quit letting the lies and the craziness coming out of Republican mouths stand like it’s normal and we have to be “above the fray”…

Yeah, it’s stunning how quickly democrats will devour their own.

You have the correct take here and the commentariat at Splinter has lost their goddamn minds.

A little background:

yeah this headline pretty much proves his point. people can’t tell the difference between depiction and endorsement.

Because words said without a harmful intent shouldn’t be strong enough to destroy someone mentally?   While delibrately being a jerk has universally been rightly seen as undesirable,  people unable to take a joke have used the internet to their maximum benefit.   Don’t think a joke is funny?  Maybe it’s not for you,…