How is that victim blaming? What victim? My feeling is that the adult woman who willingly has sex with a man is not being exploited. She is not a victim.

She was 17? I did not know that. I thought she was an adolescent when it happened.

I agree. I always thought it was blown out of proportion too.

IMO, Crash was actually the best picture that year. While I liked Brokeback Mountain, it really was just mediocre. I would probably never watch it again. I agree about the other movies though.

Other people are all over the comments too. You just notice me because you probably disagree.

I agree with this. Hannah does have weird impulses like that. I hated Adam that first season because I felt he treated her like dirt, but Hannah kept going back for more. I figured it was from feeling like she only deserved to be treated that way, but Adam has his own demons.

Not me. I don't think she's as culpable as an adult in this situation. It seems like neither girl has any lingering issues over the behavior. As for the push back against Lena, I have a feeling she would be pushing, hard, against someone else who wrote something like that, so maybe I don't feel as sorry for it as I…

That's a fair assessment, and I was willing to take it that way too (though disagree with Hannah's initial conversation with Chuck). I agreed with her teacher-student thing, but the two aren't really comparable as one occurred to a child and nothing much really happened though it was a little creepy of the guy to be…

It wasn't the part where she said she put her finger in her sister's vagina and found pebbles. It was the part where she said she would offer her candy for kisses and masterbate in bed next to her. She literally said she would offer candies to her like a child predator would. I still think she was a child herself,…

Most men accept no as an answer, and the ones who don't are called rapists. Or just dicks if they "accept" it and then hurt you over it later with classmates, coworkers, or friends by claiming you did or that you lead them on or something. We all know that happens too.

Actually, that's exactly what the showrunners said it was about. I didn't make it up. I interpreted it to mean that young women may feel pressure to do things against their will because they admire someone's work or feel like they are being admired by someone they respect. That's a self esteem issue that the person…

I didn't make up what they said the episode was about. I watched it and the after show interview. Everyone else can use their own experiences but me? I haven't seen studies. This comes from an idea that the writers had about balance of power and how that exploits women in these types of situations. Am I not…

Am I not a person? I have been in situations like that, and it is that simple. Unless you were raped against your will, then you do own it. Stop thinking it's not that simple, because it really is. Get up and leave. Don't do it if you don't want to. And if he does it anyway, against your will, fight back and…

Yes, the scenario this show portrays does say that women are weak, and have no agency over their own actions. I reject that notion, and think it's anti-feminist.

No, I'm gen-x. And I reject the idea that a women who willingly has sex with someone is being harassed just because that person is someone they admire or has a position of authority over them. I reject the notion that women are so weak that they can't say no.

I can relate. When I was a child, I was flashed by a man and chased by him, but I got away. Another time a man showed my friends and me his junk and tried to get us to go into his vehicle. We were in 5th grade. We ran away.

I'm not rolling my eyes at Denise. I'm rolling my eyes at a feminist movement that says women are weak and men should know not to take advantage of their admiration because the women who offer to sleep with them lack enough esteem to know better. How is a guy supposed to know that?

I watched the discussion with Lena Dunham, Jenni Koner, and Judd Apatow after the episode. They said they wanted to show what it's like for young girls in a situation where the balance of power is different. In other words, the young girl might feel pressured to do that to please someone they admire and not because…

We must be of a similar age, because I thought it was bs too. When I was in my early twenties, if I didn't want to sleep with someone, I just said no. I said no even to a couple of men who had authority over me at work. They accepted it and it was okay. A little awkward maybe, but no biggie.

I've had men with authority over me make passes, and when I said no they took it pretty well. I would never just have sex because I was afraid of what they'd do to my career. Then again, I was raised to believe I was in control of my own life and not be a victim. And contrary to the popular belief among a lot of…