I would actually love to see a man with Louis CK’s talent really tackle his sexual entitlement and compulsions in his work and the audience can decide if they want to hear it.

Agree that he seems contrite, but I still have concerns that shame is part of his kink. So that means that behaving inappropriately and forcing others to witness a sex act is fundamental to his self-gratification. I’m not sure how he can satisfy that while respecting other people’s boundaries.

I like Silverman too. She seems like a really good person. Her comedy does nothing for me, but something seems to have happened with her of late, and she’s somehow become a voice of compassion and sanity on the public stage. I appreciate her and think it’s really valuable.

I don’t see any reason why they can’t continue being artists. Now, whether they’re popular artists or not is up to the audience.

Millennial woman here! Love love LOVE Philip Roth’s work. As a writer, I have learned a ton from him — where to put the verbal engine in a sentence, how to move from the abstract to the concrete in a single paragraph. In many ways he’s a writer’s writer and what other writers love about him is not even “his subject”…

I think women writers need to be recognized and represented more in lit programs. And before that too, so that as a society we stop associating male writers and their stories as universal, and pigeonholing books written by women as being only for women, and considering them inferior to male writers.

#NotAllChronicMasturbators

You could argue that most men are misogynists. The way that most white people are racists. It’s not a moral judgement. That’s how society is set up. You’ve got a responsibility to try to be better than that (there’s no excuse for the behavior of someone like Norman Mailer) but even the most well intentioned of male…

I know exactly how to stay monogamous in a partially long-distance relationship: Don’t become romantically involved with other people.

“She was jealous of their life and their money and that’s on her, not them.”

1) Your supposed to try to be impartial, that’s the point of reviewing something. If your not, you cease to be a reviewer and start to be a advertiser.—-Impartial=Reviewer—-Not Impartial=Advertiser Seems like you accepted the industry as corrupt, which according to you, is.

It’s so nice of you to defend your friends. What did they offer you? A free toothpick?

Actually, only one party here entered the conversation expecting something for free, and it was the person with nothing of value to provide in this “transaction.”

The crux of my argument was that traditional client-media/PR agency relationships have a) representation for pay where the client has a hand in the messaging, and b) mutually agreed upon and clearly defined KPIs.

It wasn’t in good faith. This wasn’t a business transaction. Which part of this would have been “mutually beneficial” for the Inn? She has a piddly number of largely underage followers with little to no disposable income, much less desire, to go to such a place, and her IG is mostly selfies and navel-gazing bullshit;…

I disagree. I don’t think they are being assholes. She initiated the contact and passed up the opportunity to let it go. Honestly, they are getting more positive press about it this way than they would have from her meager base.

Uh. No.

Yeah not buying into the “poor pitiful me” bit from this lady. And I definitely don’t buy into the “social media economy” that she just invented.

This is not a good faith request, though. She’s not asking for a gift in kind, she’s asking for payment (a free room for multiple nights, totalling hundreds of dollars) for a positive review. Despite being unethical, it’s also probably not worth the hotel’s time.

Working in the hospitality industry, I assure you that just saying no is not enough for these entitled pricks.