I mean, if the appeal goes in her favor she could potentially get the damages dropped entirely couldn’t she? There was so much wrong with that trial, from the jury not being sequestered to certain evidence not being admitted; the court stenographer even admitted that some of the jurors fell asleep during the trial. Of…

Honestly, I kind of wonder if domestic violence is its own kind of addiction, because so many of the associated behaviors (the hiding, the promises to change, the relapses) seem so similar.

I think it’s important to remember that Depp (well his PR team at least) waged an incredibly vicious online PR campaign against Heard. So loads of bots, seemingly credible online news sources, and endless Youtube grifters have all coalesced to give the impression that Depp has long since been vindicated and is still…

I honestly think the criminal justice system is fundamentally incapable of dealing with issues like rape and sexual assault. Because it doesn’t exist to support victims, no matter how shows like SVU portray it. It exists to get convictions, to put people in prison. Meaning it exists to facilitate sexual assault, which…

I mean, they’re cops. Statistically a significant portion of them are domestic abusers as well.

How much money do you get for winning a criminal case though? It’s probably even harder to get a rapist convicted for a criminal charge and all that happens if you succeed is that a convicted rapist gets put in prison with new potential victims who can’t escape him.

The thing is, I think if you’re judging progress on sexual assault based on conviction rates you’re always going to be disappointed. The carceral system has never been the primary solution to rape culture, especially given that prisons themselves are a hotbed of sexual abuse. Cosby going to prison won’t undo what he’s…

I don’t understand how they can just come to the conclusion that at 19 she would have been old enough to recognize the racist ideology of the pageant. I know it’s not exactly the same, but I went on a Birthright trip to Israel when I was 20. I’ve realized by now just how fucked up the ideology behind these kinds of…

I really wonder how her son feels now about being used for her bullshit grifting. He’s 18 now and apparently runs a Youtube gaming channel with some friends, so he seems fairly capable of advocating for himself. I’d sure be angry if my mom spent my childhood telling the whole world that death by measles was preferable…

It’s fascinating how she basically stopped complaining about vaccines once the media grew tired of her and stopped covering her “Mother Warriors” crusade, and now we’re all just supposed to pretend the whole thing never happened. I honestly don’t think she ever really cared about vaccines; she just capitalized on her…

No, you see the vaccines permanently injured her son by making him autistic, and having an autistic kid is just the worst tragedy you could possibly face, right? Just take a look at her son’s Instagram. Or his Youtube channel. Look how vaccines ruined this boy’s life: https://www.instagram.com/evanjasher/

Their whole system is predicated on avoiding confrontation. As constitutional monarchs their job is to do absolutely nothing and hope for the best.

I kind of wonder if part of the reason Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me was such a failure at the time of its release was because that people in 1993 were expecting a Poison Ivy type film instead of a harrowing, if lurid, take on the sexual abuse of a teenager. Like, the show kind of built up Laura Palmer as this…

It was a political ad and Fox hadn’t skipped his medication. Apparently it was the meds that caused the very side effects that Limbaugh accused him of exaggerating.

Yeah, it’s something that was really traumatizing but in a way I could never quite put my finger on. It took me a while to realize how shitty that behavior was because I was often the one who started the conversation; I liked talking about politics. And my mom would get upset at me for starting political arguments…

My dad never listened to Limbaugh, but I heard his voice every morning when we visited my mom’s parents. And when I was about 14 I got shouted at by one of my dad’s friends, because I criticized Limbaugh for making fun of Michael J Fox. He started yelling at me that he had seen Michael J Fox speak and he absolutely…

I mean if you know anything about Klaus Kinski’s life, he probably deserved whatever Herzog did to him, but I get what you’re going for. A better example would be Akira Kurosawa throwing real arrows at Toshiro Mifune during the climax of Throne of Blood or Kubrick giving Malcolm McDowell eye damage while filming A…

The only thing Whedon and Kubrick have in common is that they’ve become demigods in geek circles, albeit for completely different reasons. What Whedon’s conduct should drive a reckoning on, is the way men can be celebrated as feminists for doing the bare minimum and especially the relationship geek culture has towards…

That’s a very accurate criticism. But this article doesn’t really go into that. It’s not actually dealing with the problems with auteur theory but with the cultural baggage it’s accrued after years of co-optation by people who just like to lionize the bad behavior of certain directors. It’s like people who criticize…

That’s kind of why I don’t like the way this piece centers “auteur theory” as a culprit. Directors, nearly always male, were behaving like this long before the theory of auteurism was even proposed. What this piece is really discussing is the romanticized vision of the tormented artist who can’t help but throw…