I consider it a sacred duty, yes.

The hypocrisy is staggering. These are the same people who will invite you to donate more if you aren’t happy about getting a tax cut that isn’t needed.

You are not getting nearly enough credit for this remark.

It puts Ryan in a bad position. Maybe he thought he could hold out and ride above the waters for a while. Now, before the end of his term, he might have to either preside over an impeachment or refuse to, and either way hurts him with some group of voters his future political career will need.

Not a good look among the base Republican voters to be the leader of impeachment proceedings either; and not a good look to refuse to hold them if substantial evidence of criminal activity emerges.

Or he doesn’t want to be the man in charge of impeachment proceedings, if anything found is criminal enough to demand it.

Yes?

Having read most of those 16 novels, she deserves every damn award she has. Reading these Jezebel threads about Atwood (this isn’t the first one that comes for her) is a fascinating exercise in learning about the New Feminism. A whiff of dust is all it takes to arouse the pettiest of angers.

It is amazing the flimsiness of evidence required for you and others to trash a person whose work and opinions you ill-understand.

Anyone here ever read any of her other novels that have nothing to do with this genre? No. That’s okay, I know, nobody here is actually familiar enough with her work to comment meaningfully on her “literary chops”. Hilarious.

No, she didn’t. You’re full of it.

No, she just disagrees with certain contemporary orthodoxies, possibly because feminism shouldn’t be about the orthodoxies of people who think there is One True Feminism at the same time they make ageist nonsense remarks about older women.

So you’re making rude comments about old people, and it’s not clear at all what her supposedly inappropriate comments were to you, a person she does not know and with whom she was interacting because - ?

And you’re 110% correct.

Obviously whoever writes the original articles influences the conversation far more than whatever’s in the comments, which most people don’t read, and from which many of us are proudly banned. Spend a lifetime doing actual feminist work + have opinions based in that experience that differ from whatever elites in…

Yes, these clickbait headlines would be wrong.

They’re mad at her for unrelated reasons and because there is no room under their wee feminism umbrella for dissent, even from a giant like Atwood to whom they should give at least the courtesy of a fair hearing.

They really don’t like Atwood on Jezebel.

There’s a reason for this: Jezebel is not friendly to Atwood because of her positions on other unrelated topics, and people are interested in Atwood due to all her recent successful projects. The combination means we can expect to see articles mocking her.

Thank you. Let us place no limits on this woman’s powers.