“that some low-level tech dude can claim that software development (which is on the list of top ten low-stress jobs) is too stressful for our neurotic female brains — and tons of people agree with him or at least champion his God-given right to spew that kind of hate to the women he works with.”

I don’t know why, but this takes me back to the 1970s in the US. I guess because that was a time when women were first starting to win some basic human rights. I remember all the ways men made fun of us and insulted us for wanting things like jobs, houses, and control over our own finances. (Women weren’t granted…

There’s a younger guard in the Saudi kingdom (being led by Mohammad bin Salman) that’s both aggressively hawkish in foreign policy and pro-reformist in the domestic front. These two things are interconnected. Their hope is that by shedding its ultra-conservative image and making peaceful overtures to countries like…

Sure, now they can drive and they can go to the stadium. But will they be allowed ACCESS TO THE PARKING LOT?

Wake me up when Arab women are allowed to walk through the front door of their own house.

The Times broke the story, but Ronan Farrow claimed his story had been prepared for NBC a few months ago and they declined to air it, saying it didn’t have enough sources willing to go on the record or something. Which is how it eventually wound up in the New Yorker.

Shia LaBeouf, Sean Penn, Russell Crowe, Mickey Route, etc. The list of difficult men  who behave abhorrently yet are still able to get work goes on and on. And that doesn’t include all the asshole directors who behave horribly and are still able to get top talent to work with them.

Anthony Bourdain has been the model for male reaction to this Weinstein story. He is acting like the very definition of a good ally in this situation, and I really applaud him for it.

I 1000% think Michael Bay was just talking shit about Megan Fox because she didn’t want to sleep with him (anymore? I can’t remember if they had a relationship - but that doesn’t make a difference if the answer is no later)

For years Sean Young has been fighting the accusations of being difficult and crazy (odd Catwoman appearance with Joan Rivers aside) mostly thanks to James Woods taking her to court for stalking him, and it wasn’t until his true self popped up on Twitter that it dawned on me, hmm, maybe Sean Young wasn’t the crazy one…

He is. Though I think the NY Times broke it open. I believe the Times broke the story and then Ronan’s first story appeared in the New Yorker. And...omg. I have fucking LOATHED Woody Allen ever since he was all, “I never got what the fuss was about” when talking about his relationship with his children’s sister/his…

Brad Pitt apparently threatened to when Fuckstain Harvey tried to pull that shit with Paltrow. He did it at some industry function, in front of a whole bunch of people, before he was a big star. Pitt didn’t give a fuck.

Ronan Farrow is doing a fucking excellent hatchet job on these dudes. He’s creating an opening for it all to be hit by sunlight. I can’t help but think he’s taking on the entire structure as a way to get to Woody Allen. I admire Ronan’s perseverance. These dudes created a wall of silence to protect people like Woody…

Well, she first got labeled difficult when she took herself out of the running for an Emmy, badmouthing her showrunners along the way and screwing them out of a major award.

Makes me question the rumors about Katherine Heigl being difficult.

How many actresses women have had their careers derailed because of sex perverts?

Yeah, unless an actor also got in trouble for violent behavior or drug addiction issues in real life I’ve always taken those stories of being difficult with a box of salt. I thought it meant they didn’t let themselves get walked all over and it looks like I was right.

Weinstein, they allege, highly influenced the tabloid press and would threaten smear campaigns.

How many actresses have had their careers derailed because of sex perverts in the film industry not getting their way? I mean, I could name a lot of actresses who were big names for like a minute then - poof - never saw them again. Now it all kind of makes sense. Just horrible.

I’m interested in people’s answers to Tarantino’s rhetorical question: “what was I supposed to do?”