Ugh, besides all the obvious ways that this is gross, how do you think being used like this is going to make her feel about reporting an incident if something were to happen to her or a friend in the future?

Considering how close Lena Dunham has been with the campaign, I wonder how the whole bounty-for-unphotoshopped-pics tsuris factored into this

Are you generally this opposed to consumer protection laws, or only when it’s something that you think is dumb? What’s your expertise in this matter that makes you single these existing regulations as apparently overreaching?

I feel like people are very deliberately misconstruing your point because they feel that their point is only powerful if it’s an unassailable truth. Remember that woman, back in 2008?, who carved shit into her face and claimed she was attacked by Obama supporters? Now, I’m still going to say that when someone states…

With Gawker going away I feel like the Flag/Dismiss button on Jez is going to be mysteriously phased out to ensure “healthy discussion” and “room for all viewpoints” :(

It sounds like, then, even running at full capacity, they could have done the same photo op? Which makes calling them out even more of a dick move, let them have an off day and a nice moment dude, lol

While I’m similarly frustrated with that poster, after a (mediocre) night’s sleep to think on it, I’m 100% convinced that they are white and upper middle class, and most likely had a feminine mystique-d mom. So, I’m just gonna feel bad for their limited perspective and lack of knowledge of that limit.

Again, I’m gonna venture a guess that the women being arrested now would still have been 100 years ago. Read At The Dark End of the Street for a great view of how brutally law enforcement treated (and still treats) black women back in the day.

I have a feeling that the women committing crimes would have been the women employed 50-100 years ago. Factory workers, domestic workers, secretaries, nannies, prostitutes, etc: women have been working for centuries.

It’s almost like talking to people is more productive than talking at them, imagine that :P

I’m with you on justice, definitely. I’m a nihilist, but I also believe that we have a duty to work to help others, so I have some complicated emotions around it, especially discussing it with people who are religious. Justice is a goal, and a more-than-worthy one, but “Justice” as a concrete or inherent principle is…

Yea, I get that. I don’t really believe in “justice” or any sort of greater good, so I guess for me, my baseline is: would I eventually give my brother a pass for this? For me, after having read the details, especially the details of why there wasn’t another trial, no, I wouldn’t give my brother a pass for this. I…

I mean, I don’t understand how to separate NP the filmmaker from the person at this point, as I don’t know him as a person. I think, in 2016, we have to stop giving passes to people who are out rapists. We have to stop saying that men get a pass (or white people get a pass, or whatever bigotry) if they’re “good…

Say it again for the back row. Making this school more academically exclusive is just going to hurt kids whose natural intelligence lies in the arts.

The testing/application process for NYC public schools is already kind of absurdly classist, and there are already a number of extremely rigorous academic public high schools available. I’m a natural book learner, and I’m fucking tired of pretending that academic knowledge/book learning/whatever you want to call it is…

It’s weird to me because my problem is not with seeing the movie, for many reasons you’ve outlined: I think the actors, crew, and others involved may very well have created a work of art that deserves to be celebrated. At the same time, I think Nate Parker (NOT his movie) should be punished. So that’s why I’m having…

Rich men do not generally hire hookers to do things that women are willing to do for free, especially rich men who could have large numbers of women who would be willing and ready to go.

Yea, definitely. I think I see where you’re coming from, although I’m not sure I agree. I mean, I’m not planning on boycotting the movie, because I wasn’t planning on watching it (not a fan of white-targeting slavery porn movies), but at the end of the day, it’s pretty safe to assume that someone in a decision-making…

So, if someone says “I want to see this movie but I don’t want the director to get money” do you still have a problem with that? I’m just wondering where you draw the line? You said you’re gonna see the movie, does that mean you don’t believe the accusations? What’s your reasoning for that? Genuine questions, in case…

Do you not see how someone could argue that this specific movie, about an underrepresented and underexamined part of American history, could have value despite its maker?