It's also illegal to fire someone their physical appearance in most jobs, but if you're a tv producer who hires a well-built man to play Hercules, and he decides to stop working out and develop a beer belly, you've got some grounds to replace him.

But we don't know he is a creep. We know he's being accused of being one. There are so many possibilities here: he didn't have affairs; he did have affairs but the situations are nothing like what she claims; he had no affairs but he's still a power-mad dick; he behaved terribly but he was going through stuff an it…

No, it hurts. Hurts everyone in the media who wants to stand up for feminism but now knows they will be shredded if they do something wrong, hurts the legacy of a body of work that helped create female empowerment, hurts the attempt so many of us have made—LGBT, bdsm, people living out of wedlock, divorced people—to…

It seems like he waited a lot longer to fire her than every other show she was on. So maybe it wasn't all on him?

Pretty sure he meant the people who work here, not the comments section.

You know it was a joke, right?

lol, DC can't catch a break.

But knowing this place, all future articles relating to him will include some phrase like "alleged feminist" despite creating many women characters of strong agency, complexity, and a refusal to reduce women to one type or a good/bad woman dichotomy. I can't think of anyone in television who has done more to improve…

AV Club, how low you have sunk.

Do agree about that last part.

And so it's useless talking to you.

Whatever he was trying to achieve in the moment—feel him out, alienate him, whatever.

It does matter, as it impacts how we and the media present him and how he leverages it for his continued chaos.

I don't think he's your garden variety anything. I think he's a very low and very cunning snake.

Except that pretending-but-not-quite-being keeps him in with enough groups to win elections.

If you read my comments as "benefit of the doubt," you're misreading me. I actually think Trump is even lower than racists

It would actually be better if he was a racist. He;d screw up and alienate a huge hunk of conservatives and independents that he needs . But he had no beliefs except winning by any means necessary. And our last election shows his strategy is a winning one.

I don't say he's lying. I say Trump's always got an angle and does not reveal his true self/may not have a true self to reveal.

I don't believe Trump has any sincere opinions.

You so don't hear what I'm saying. He says things just vaguely enough that he squares himself with a lot of groups. He's a manipulator, not an earnest person. He sounds racist to racists, "politically incorrect" to people who love that, like a non-racist to conservatives who wouldn't vote for him if it came down to…