I think it’s one thing to say “I used to do this stuff but that’s not who I am ANY MORE”, because I do think people can change. But just saying “it’s not reflective of who I am” is some bullshit. You don’t get to choose which of your actions are reflective of who you are. They all are. But I suppose it is still an…

Spacey definitely used the first one so he could maintain some plausible deniability. You say “I’m sorry I did X” and everyone agrees that you definitely did X. Say “I’m sorry if I did X” and you’re announcing that you don’t think you actually did it, but you would be sorry if you did. It’s just a complete non-apology…

It’s a quote from a deranged vigilante in Watchmen.

I don’t think this is anything close to the last of it. It’s becoming quite apparent that there used to be a general attitude that this stuff was a totally acceptable thing for male stars to do. One could say that’s still the case and maybe it is (I’m sure there’s still some dudes keeping this stuff under wraps), but…

If he hasn’t been accused of anything, why does he deserve to be singled out? Maybe he just never sexually assaulted anyone.

You’re kind of looking at it the wrong way, in that you’re being too logical. These guys aren’t thinking “I can get my fill whenever I want once we go home”. They’re in a position where they just view younger women like an open buffet. People don’t tend to see an open buffet and think “yeah but I have food at home so…

I don’t buy that. It seems like an idea that sounds good but never really been tested. I’m not saying it’s never about that, but I still think the vast majority of it is some dude who wants to grab a boob or some butt and doesn’t care what the woman thinks. It’s not some weird mental aberration where they need to…

I would not be at all surprised. I’m starting to feel like it just used to be the case that this stuff happened and people didn’t even consider it to be that bad. I mean look at teenaged Anna Graham Hunter here thinking that grabbing her butt was uncomfortable, but nothing to make her hate the guy who did it for. If…

Lately I’ve been so numb to this stuff that I’ve had to start thinking who it would take to really shock me if this stuff came out. Kevin Spacey was a little surprising alright, but not as much as Cosby. Tom Hanks was probably the movie star I would consider the most shocking for something like this. Dwayne Johnson…

That might require some journalistic skill, and then the integrity needed to stop talking about it if you find nothing, which nobody has so far. It’s easier to just keep mentioning it and not caring about feeble human constructs like “honesty”. The entertainment blogosphere is such an echo chamber that we’re still…

No, honestly that’s completely ridiculous. This is basically buying into the Donald Trump school of “I’m not saying X is true, but people are saying X, so we should take it very seriously”. I don’t know what was known about Weinstein before the NYT exposé but I know that the entirety of allegations against Louis CK…

I felt sorry for the PR woman and for Patton on that bit. He was really not expecting to bump up against a job that was so difficult to discuss jokingly and she really wasn’t able to easily answer a lot of his questions. The civil engineer was a much smoother exchange.

“Hangs out” seems to mean “hung out”, and did so before Bougas was exposed as the author of racist comics that he posted anonymously.

Wait, it’s controversial to like Louis CK now? Or was that just sarcasm that went over my head?

What are you talking about? There’s no “Russia narrative” to “cling to”. Russia bought a bunch of ads on social media to campaign for Trump. Facebook and Twitter admitted that themselves.

I don’t understand. You don’t need to be online to play the game. If you connect to some other network once to download it then you can play it wherever you want.

It’s not so much that people sit down and read Facebook for news like they would a paper, but people will see headlines and stuff while they browse Facebook and they’ll absorb that information without thinking about it, or they might even read further and find what looks like a totally legit article but on a…

Yeah Mr Mansplainer over here does actually have a point in that The Greatest Show on Earth did use the costume first. And I don’t know if he was lying about those interviews, but if he wasn’t then that would be understandable to think it was based on that. It’s totally possible that Spielberg mixed the two up in an…

What makes you think it’s on her feed? Could have been put up by a mutual friend.

That’s why I think this one is a bad example. When the guy started his contradiction (“the question is wrong”), he had no idea who wrote it or what gender they were. You can argue that the doubling down is mansplaining, but people often just double down on their arguments after they’ve been rebutted no matter who…