For my money, this show went wrong from the spousal rape in the pilot when they set the template for any criticism of the show's treatment of abuse against women: "Oh, but it's not rape-rape! You know rape happened in the Middle Ages! OH JUST STOP BEING SUCH AN UPTIGHT PRUDE, NOTHING TO SEE HERE! MOVE ALONG!"

Yup — and it's really awesome seeing Jolie explicitly and specifically own that, yeah, she's in a position of economic and social privilege that most definitely isn't the norm for most women.

Here is the source of the Angelina quote. It had nothing to do with the Chirline McCray or Goopy Paltrow for that matter. The media just loves to pit Angelina against other women.

Of course, Louis C.K. is all too aware of the television double standard where average looking dudes get to hook up with modelesque women (last week's episode was about him hooking up with an actual model) and how women like Vanessa are rarely represented, especially not as a love interest. This episode, proving…

Yes, Madonna, go work on that next album. Really hard. Perhaps then it won't suck. blow and shit its couture pants like MDNA - the strongest sedative known to music.

I hope she never does.

Anyone else miss the good old days when Madonna got attention for making incredible music, instead of attention-getting bullshit Miley fucking Cyrus would dismiss as too desperate for words? Extra fail points: Making me feel sorry for Nuclear Wintour.

The ambiguity was much more present in the book version,

Just because a guy's done some things you like in the past doesn't mean he can't rape in the future.

Cercei is not the kind of woman to allow her brother to full out rape her.

Why don't you stop tone policing and engage with points of view you obviously disagree with instead of telling people to STFU and go away?

From the excerpt above, Cersei is pretty clearly into it.

but eventually ends in sex that's not rape. He did it by having Cersei verbally say yes.

The internet wholeheartedly disagrees.

Jaime raping Cersei simply makes no sense. This is the same Jaime Lannister who wanted to stop Aegon from raping Rhaella, the same man who saved Brienne from being raped, the same guy who said he'd rather die than be raped. Jaime knows that Robert raped and beat Cersei; why would he put the woman he loved through…

You're absolutely right and I was insensitive to the realities of rape culture in how I made my point. From what I've read, Richardson is a textbook sexual predator — he chooses his victims carefully, and I doubt he'd dare to sexually assault Kate Moss (or Anna Wintour) — they've got the power to hit him where he…

Ugh, because he knows not to do that shit to famous people, and they can be like "Omg, Terry? NO. He's not like that! He's great!"

why hasn't anyone sued him?

Someone please, yes, explain this to me. What a vile shit pile of a man.

The movie portrays the life of ONE trans-gender woman. It tells the story of ONE trans-gender woman. Just because it doesn't portray YOUR MAJESTY's experience, it doesn't mean the movie or the actors did a bad job. If the movie was based on YOUR life, you absolutely have the right to complain.