Some of my colleagues worked with her recently. She was an absolute gem. Her literacy work is incredible. Love Dolly.

I met her in 1992 when I was 12. She was so sweet and wonderful to us that I fell in love, and she seems to be even more amazing as time goes on.

Her charity has sent nearly 100,000,000 books to children all over the world. Those books then have been shared with siblings, neighbors and others in the community. She is amazing.

Imagination Library, yay! I work in a tribal community, where schools cannot hold bond overrides based on property taxes, since our schools are on lands owned by the federal government. Our schools *STAY* underfunded, with how that system is designed. Imagination Library is the only way that kids in my community get…

I have met Dolly Parton in 1976 or so & got her autograph. Unfortunately, I lost it in a move. Anyway, the show opened with Freddy Fender. then a couple other acts, then Dolly played. She is every bit as beautiful, talented, & kind as you would imagine.

Drunk history did a good Dolly segment:

I would be down with this because her whole platform would be 1. end poverty 2. promote literacy 3. treat people with kindness 4. have a good party with friends (Surprise! everyone is invited because everyone is her friend).

I don’t know what her politics are but if we want a celebrity to run for President, Dolly is the one.

There’s ... a lot going on here.

True but Rome was still sacked by savages, The persian empire was destroyed by a bunch of pasty greeks and the Almohad caliphate was finished by the Iberians. Race or no race, the biggest or most advanced stick always has and still rules. Primitive thinkers have a habit of overcoming the enlightened throughout…

There are instances where fear plays a role but I do not understand why it has to play a role every single time. Grace does not even say that she was afraid. She sounds more conflicted than afraid to me. I think that always assuming that any woman in any kind of sexual situation with a man is always afraid of…

Are you saying that she thought Aziz Ansari might assault or murder her if she said she didn’t want to have sex with him? I saw nothing in her account of the evening that indicated that possibility ever crossed her mind.

I don’t think it’s quibbling to draw a distinction between what is actually assault and an action that isn’t.

We really need to stop with that “do you know how many women are killed if they say no“ shit. It’s fearmongering. how about how about we tell women to use their best judgement? Why must we scare women into fearing men?

I deeply resent the argument that asks why a woman doesn’t leave a situation like this is victim blaming. This was not a case where she was threatened or intimidated. It was an evening where she felt uncomfortable with the sexual activity she was actively participating in, and did not stand up for herself and say no…

Here is where I’ll probably get flamed, but there were so many aspects of her story that sounded unrealistically entitled and just, frankly, willfully unaware. Grace describes going BACK to this man who had just gone down to her, and FULLY NAKED, “...sat down on the floor next to Ansari, who sat on the couch, she…

I think that’s a (deliberate?) misreading of Weiss’ piece.

Actually asking Ansari for his recollections of the night and contrasting them would have immediately made the story more interresting and killed the shady, I Never Thought It Would Happen To Me feel.

She also expressed her feelings to him the next day. He heard her out and apologized. I see no reason to doubt the sincerity of his apology. His statement on the matter affirms that he took her words to heart.

the editors of Babe were . . . courting a bad faith conversation