Her internalized misogyny is so blatant in Harry Potter that I recognized it before I even had any conception of what internalized misogyny was.

I really used to like that pairing before I realized she just paired up the two most queer coded characters in order to make them seem straight.

Well not according to Rowling, but Alfonso Cuaron certainly seemed to think so when directing the third movie and he instructed the actor who played Lupin to play him as gay.

Yeah, I think people are just harder on women then they are on men, so all the blatantly abusive things Joe did in the documentary got ignored. They could have shown that story about the horse Rick Kirkham talked about in the after special and people would still have preferred Joe to Carol. Because Joe is a man who…

I’m sure something awful happened to her, but this whole piece is very confusing. I’m sure there’s a way to fact check these types of claims without invalidating a victim’s trauma.

I meant Strummer was inspired to write the song after he read Bosworth’s book. It’s a very irreverent punk song, of course, so it was never going to be as sympathetic as a biography.

The Clash wrote a song about that book.

I feel like you can really trace this kind of thing back to the 80s when Bob Geldof was practically sainted for his white savior concert that inadvertently funded a genocide.

Do you remember which celebrity it was?

Actually it wasn’t all that great when Jerry Lewis advocated for his pet cause. While he definitely raised quite a lot of money and probably did quite a lot of good, his telethons were heavily criticized for treating disabled people as helpless objects of pity and his public statements about disabled people were even…

Is the Shitty Media Men list really a good comparison? Because it seems like in that case one woman co-opted an existing whisper network and even though she got sued, managed to get a successful writing career out of it. 

You know plenty of feminists have written about rape fantasies right? Women do fantasize about rape. That doesn’t mean we actually want it to happen to us.

Or all the rock stars sleeping with underage groupies. I remember arguing on this site after Bowie died that I didn’t think all the men who participated were inherently bad people, but part of a sick culture that they were contributing to. 

See, I think when it comes to people who seek vast amounts of power, we should be treating all of them with the utmost suspicion. 

Honestly, I don’t think the problem is that we’re too hard on female politicians; we’re just not hard enough on male politicians.

Honestly, I don’t think that was the worst concession she made. That one was something she really had no choice over. The worst concession was staying with and enabling a man who victimized other women. And then continuing to do that for other men like Epstein and Weinstein. As a woman Clinton was forced to make…

I don’t want a female president. I don’t want a male president either. I think we should abolish the whole fucking office. I’m rooting for Bernie Sanders but I see him as a compromise candidate at best.

Did no one else find that bell hooks essay a bit transphobic? I understood what she was saying about race but it felt like she didn’t quite understand the culture of Paris is Burning all that much herself.

On the one hand, I think the carceral system is a brutal method of state violence that disproportionately affects the poor and minorities. On the other I’m happy to see Weinstein rot. It’s a conundrum.

Yes, because testosterone is a magic drug that makes you instantly good at sports and women are inherently inferior to men- I thought this was a feminist site?