“Anne Hathaway was under no obligation to talk to me—in fact, given her feelings about Jezebel, she had good reason not to”

Never got the hatred focused on Anne Hathaway? I have always liked her. I have zero problems with her and have pretty much enjoyed all of her movies.

I’m . . . kinda old. I’m not new to reading comics. Nor are lots of the “diverse” other people reading them. Again, we’ve been here whether or not we were specifically catered to and recognized or not.
Marvel’s problem isn’t that they’re trying to finally go after a more diverse market and yet non-neckbeards aren’t…

The problem with that statement though is that their core Legacy White Guy Comics aren’t selling will either. It makes the news when Hellcat’s numbers aren’t doing gangbusters, but the fact that Iron Man is barely selling 36,000 comics a month and sits at number 56 on the top 300 chart? And that’s Straight White…

That’s decreasingly true. There are those (white, hetero) dudes trying to relive their childhoods, but the audience for comics has become more diverse. It’s just traditionally been a hostile environment for new readers outside that original group, and the comic industry has done a crappy job of marketing to them,…

You would assume that, but those assumptions about who is the “core” demographic are also the cause of these problems. I started reading comics in my early teens, and still do - I’m a woman. And there’s lots of women fans. Lots of fans of different races. And when people say that companies are just worried about…

the underlying narrative here is: women are lying hags who will seize any opportunity to falsely accuse a good man of sexual harassment/assault, so that’s why you can’t ever be alone with one. Incidentally this also allows you to undermine their position at work and not promote them.

It also means he got drunk once and cheated on his wife.

Right? Eating lunch or dinner with my boss was always a great time to get some one-on-one mentorship and advice in a setting where I had his undivided attention. I wanted guidance on my career, not to seduce him.

Mike Pence does not see women as colleagues or business partners (or god forbid, bosses). I am in finance and have meals alone with dudes all of the time for work reasons. In fact, when I am travelling on business, I make a special point of having dinner alone with my boss because it’s the rare time I get his full,…

Also, does he not have any aides that are women? (Probably not) How on earth would they be able to do their job if they could never grab lunch with him in the cafeteria and talk over things?

My hatred of Matt Walsh knows no bounds. I grew up in a religiously conservative community and people like him piss me off. Fuck the patriarchal evangelical conservatism that passes for his brand of Christianity.

While we’re on the topic of Hillary Clinton losing and the future of the electorate, here’s some pants-shitting data from Nate Cohn today. Basically, depressed turnout wasn’t as big an issue as people thought. Trump voters came out of the woodwork. I don’t know how you counter that in the medium term without selling…

Too many women, especially women of color, have had a lifetime of practice taking precisely these kinds of indignities in stride,” Clinton said.

Was never a fan of her, but I proudly voted for her, and whenever I stop and think about how things went down I get really angry. Especially in light of this Russia bullshit.

She should have been president...

Just a friendly reminder that we had 33 hearings into Benghazi and millions of dollars spent over several years which turned up nothing. Now they’re circling the wagons to protect foreign intervention into our election (which all intelligence agencies agree happened). Republican hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Votes against the Iraq War (and even more so the Patriot Act) are important to me not because history has proven them right, but because it was glaringly obvious even at the time that that those were terrible decisions and that most politicians just didn’t have the nerve to go against the herd in a post-9/11 world.…

It’s honestly emboldened white people in general (disclosure: white person, here).

Maxine Waters is a national treasure and hero. Her vote against the Iraq War Resolution in 2002 will confer upon her a legacy of being one of the few politicians of the era of courage and conscience.