Men: create a system of toxic masculinity that allows them to commit violence towards women and affords them all sorts of advantages over us for literal centuries

I’ve made some progress with my husband. A few years ago I had an issue with an office co-worker, I was debating going to HR about it and my husband basically said, “HR won’t do anything and it’ll be worse for you if you say something.” And while he may have had a point, it really hurt how he kind of blew off my…

Same here. That interview gave me second-hand anxiety. It’s so familiar and hurtful.

I feel perfectly comfortable shunning enablers as well. You actually kinda have to.

“I felt so uncomfortable hearing a woman talk about her abusive experience that I had to try to fix it so we could forget about it.”

Fuck Bateman and the rest of the AD dudes. They showed the world what they’re like when they’re together and how they dismiss and talk over their women coworkers. True colours.

i’ve had so many conversations with men since last fall about men’s toxic behavior only to be met with more toxic masculinity (most unintentional... let’s hope, but there regardless) from the men in my life that i trust and love. this fucks me up.

“I was so busy maintaining the status quo that I forgot to remember that women matter.”

I think most women have lived this interview many many times in their lives and I know personally I just want to go up to Jessica and offer her a stiff drink and an ear to bitch about the bloody men she is trying to remain friends with to be professional but damn are they dude-bro morons

Because they have a show to sell. I can tell you right now, if they’d have kicked Tambor’s ass off of this season they’d be talking about how it was an “eye-opening experience”. Or have signed an NDA and it wouldn’t have been on the docket of allowed lines of questioning, fuck if I know actually.

Exactly. To me it read like gaslighting.

they can just go fuck themselves. the show isn’t even that funny. also i perused the article (will not read thoroughly cuz again, fuck them) and the most reasonable quote is from Alia Shawkat who is only quoted twice in the whole damn circle jerk of a “conversation”:

I am SO glad they included the audio in the NYT article. People need to HEAR how the men in the room COMPLETELY disregarded everything she had to say about it

I think this interview will feel very familiar to any women that wants people to know what happened to them was not okay, but also feel pressured to go along to get along.

And here’s some audio from the interview if you feel like screaming EVEN MORE!

No, Jessica, you don’t have to be friends with him! God I could cry.

This part was rough to read too:

Correct me if I’m wrong but this just leaves Arnet, who plays the worst of the brothers, as the only male actor on the show not to handwaive sexual assault and bullying.

No mention of Shaun of the Dead? (Okay, it’s a little scary. But hardly horror-movie scary.) Or What We Do In The Shadows?

You are no doubt too young to know this, but back in the early 80s Disney had a few PG-rated movies and some of them were fairly scary. (Full disclosure - I, too, am a giant baby who is easily scared.) The best of these movies was “Watcher in the Woods” (which featured Betty Davis!). Genuinely scary, but not too…