Because the AV Club is better than what has been passing for the AV Club since at least the Fall Of Gawker, and for those of us who have been around pre-Phipps, it’s pretty unforgivable how far the quality has fallen.

Looking at how much they succeeded in bringing down his career, it seems odd to me to act like women speaking out is futile.

Nope. They didn’t even press charges. This is the progressive morality cops saying he shouldn’t be allowed to perform on their behalf. They straight up say the Cellar shouldn't host him. They want him depersoned, which means redemption is impossible.

just 10 months

People are almost never black and white enough to be “good” or “bad”.

Barsanti’s sort of like a Bizarro version of Sean O’Neal: He has no idea how sarcasm works, so he lays it on so thick and obnoxiously that you wish he’d stop and just write a straightforward news story.

That’s it right? Louis C. K. has every right to get back on stage and we have every right to stay or leave. Are you forgiving Louis if you stay? I suppose, a little. Does it make you a bad person? Naw the bad things you do make you a bad person. Louis C. K. is a bad person but he’s also funny. Can he redeem himself? Ma…

I don’t know why they’re being so hard on Louis. It takes a lot of cojones to keep putting yourself out there, show everyone what you’ve got, and just let it all hang out. He’s not just some flash-in-the-pan prick. He’s one of the seminal comedians of our time . . .

I’m OUTRAGED by what an amazing deal that is!

How is this under the umbrella of AV News? This dude writes like he’s telling a story to his friends at brunch with 3rd hand information. This is, at best, a gossip piece and not an accurate account of what actually happened. Did Mr. Barsanti go and interview any witnesses? Nope. Instead, he cherry-picked info from a H…

Except, no one did, so obviously everyone was okay with it, except the one or two who walked out. And judging by the “wild applause” and “warm send-off”, the audience was more than okay with it, but were happy to see Louie back. Make of it what you will, but it would seem the majority of folks are perfectly fine with…

I think it would be much more effective if decent, conscientious audience members simply walked off and left the room in droves as soon as Louis CK appeared, because it would make it clear that it wasn’t just a single business owner that objected to his presence but a large number of the comic club attending public. It…

dirtside, I’m not defending the OP. I think his overall logic is flawed. But I’m not sure that you can take the high ground over being ‘rude and insulting in your posts’ when you rudely deride me, without provocation, for a cheap joke/a few up votes, in an above post.

The hate from TLJ really is from a very small number of people. And it it’s very hard to claim that some of those who hate it aren’t racist, sexist pricks

No, I actually feel vindicated by the article.

I mean, when the site gratuitously puts backlash in quotes, it does feel like the article is more about denying the existence of those of us who legit don’t like the movie than exploring Russian twitter activity. It shouldn’t be that hard to acknowledge that the backlash happened in part because the movie was…

Holy fucking shit, STOP. PEOPLE DIDN’T LIKE THE MOVIE. A LOT OF PEOPLE. They weren’t Russian bots, or incels, or entitled fans, or gamergaters, or white supremacists, or entitled white incel Nazi Russian toxic masculine entitled manboys. Stop. The box office drop off from the previous film is indicative that the group…

Well, yeah, we all know how effective it is to just tell people their opinions are wrong. That never works. But what I’ve found does work, to some degree (it’s no magic bullet, of course) is asking questions the other person may not have heard, and providing information they may not have. Especially in what they…

This affects all of us.

Seriously?