as someone who also knows this story very, very well, I agree about your McLeish statement. Of course, their characterization of Garabedian is pretty charitable. I think, however, both versions make sense in the context of the story being told (rather than a documentary)

Thank you for saying this more eloquently than I could.

OK, that would be so much better if it’s true!

This story being made public has zero affect on her, because, again, she’s dead.

I hate Scott Conant more than he hates red onion.

The thing is, I can’t stand Game of Thrones, Eminiem, Torture horror movies. I’ve always been really vocal about condemning white artists’ violence-for-the-sake-of-titillation, and I always got eye-rolling from people calling me oversensitive, especially from other feminists. Now I’m criticizing Rihanna, I feel like…

But you gotta own it

what the fuck is wrong w you

That’s really nice! :)

But he wasn’t “allowed” to escape future prosecution.

I’m not arguing in her favor.

Seconded. I am in NO WAY team Rachel. I think what she’s done here is disgraceful and I don’t think a white woman can go around claiming to understand the struggle of the black experience. That shit is inexcusable. However, since this story broke I’ve been seeing a lot of hating going on in regards to people who are…

...which would be illegal to ask in hiring in the USA.

It’s NOT! That’s the thing about nuance- you can denounce the inherent power imbalance in profs fucking students (regardless of absolute age difference) that the essay is advocating and, simultaneously, not think that Title IX invocation is a correct response. WHOA.

“symbolically incoherent” is a phrase that a lot of college students need to have in their head when they plan their activism, just saying.

What bums me out most about this is that the question of consent laws, “spheres of victimhood” and the worry about infantilization is SUCH an important and interesting one (and…

I am on the board for the Female Coalition In Support of Chest Hair (FCISCH).

There is a decided lack of chest hair. I'm disappointed. I can't be the only heterosexual woman who appreciates some chest hair.

Good luck with that alternative. Complete moral libertarianism is... dicey, to say the least

I don’t see how ‘love the sinner/hate the sin’ is a bad policy. I get how viewing abortion as a sin is a problem, but I fail to see how continuing to have love in your heart for someone who has done something you think is wrong is a bad policy at all.

My mom died 17 years ago this summer. I will officially be alive as long without her as I was with her. I still can’t talk about it without crying, so I basically don’t talk about it, which is not great, but whatever. Sometimes I don’t even notice, or it’s just sort of a weird realization later that she doesn’t know…