Why is Kate Manne and her book not mentioned in this piece? Referring himpathy to a paywalled article isn’t helpful-- especially when there was a Jezebel interview with Manne when Down Girl was published

I wonder if a lower stakes treatment model of sexual assault would generate a better results. If we want men to recognize how they have violated the bodily autonomy of others, they must first understand how their own bodily autonomy has been violated. The problem in our culture is that men are not allowed to feel bad…

“My client has retained the same team as Johnny Depp. You can take the settlement or you can get the Amber Heard treatment, complete with social media botfarm blitz and enough screeching incels to make GamerGate look like a love-in, feeding into a legacy-media outreach that’ll make anyone over 50 think you’re poison…

This pre-frontal cortex argument is another argument that needs to go away. It’s so laden with problems that I’m surprised that the person who wrote this article — a person who is presumably over the age of 25— doesn’t understand the nuance of its danger and its absurdity.

I don’t think (?) that foreign judgments have preclusive effect over here, and this verdict is not going to be thrown out because of a venue issue (I don’t think, although that quote from Depp’s attorney is pretty damning on this issue). But yes, that this case ever even got to a jury is patently absurd.  There is…

LOL I think it’s brilliant. Halloween is supposed to be gruesome and outlandish and yes, even offensive and I’m getting a huge kick out of the offended tweets.

lol... BuzzFeed, while yes being a list and quizzes site, also has some great investigative journalism pieces from time to time.

Honestly I think Heard’s comparitively lesser fame was a huge factor, far more than anything she actually did — especially considering Depp’s history has a number of pretty fucked up confirmed incidents. Johnny Depp had superfans who went to great lengths to amplify his propaganda and Amber Heard simply did not have…

I’m not saying the media isn’t doing what the article says it’s doing—I’m saying Jolie is so much more powerful than Heard (both absolutely, and relative to her own ex/opponent,) and better situated and equipped to handle the situation than Heard, that the cases are not ultimately analogous.

I don’t think that Jolie has never fully shaken off the persona of dark temptress in the eyes of the average Team Aniston schmo. And Brad, well, he’s just a good ol’ blonde haired, blue eyed wholesome All American man from Oklahoma who ain’t never worn no blood necklace. Even if the case is legally ruled in her favor,…

For the internet it really boiled down to “hot girl who we have no real opinions about either way vs. funny guy we like” I don’t think Brad Pitt elicits the same fandom that Depp did, but Jolie doesn’t either. She could easily get the same treatment if enough bullshit gets astroturfed into enough Tik Tok feeds and…

Honestly, I’m not getting the comparison. Jolie has a crazy good reputation. Aside from the Jennifer Aniston bit, which, a case could be made that Pitt is far more at fault there actually being the one in the relationship, Jolie’s reputation is pretty immaculate compared to what Heard’s was. Heard and Depp both had…

tl;dr - Jolie/Pitt are not reasonably analogous to Heard/Depp. Jolie will be fine.

The David O’Russell stuff is far more disturbing than any of the DWD drama, but it’s also not new information to the gossip world. I thought there were going to be stories about the making of this movie, but all the stories have previously been reported. So DOR has already received a pass from the public on all this…

“When I was 23, I thought I was grown. I was, in fact, an exploitable adult.”

I don’t think anyone’s all that outraged, just poking fun at the very distinct pattern. 

Call me a Leo apologist I guess, but I can’t summon outrage for this. Is it gross in a stereotypical entitled man sense? Sure. But everything seems consensual, there haven’t been any allegations of abuse or mistreatment to my knowledge, and while I realize this is a pretty low bar to clear, there’s worse shit in the…

I think you said this with a lot of care and nuance that is often missing from this conversation. The quick jump that many seem to take from”help her” to “Well maybe she should be under a conservatorship after all” is scary. How quick we are to judge others and determine that stripping someone of their autonomy agency…

Hahah, it’s funny because he’s a violent abusive misogynist who brutalized his ex-wife, a woman 23 years his junior, and then capped it off by suing her for millions of dollars, making his ruination of his life complete, and now a major media conglomeration, which put this garbage on basically every network on TV last…

as a parent myself, her point at a very high level is well-taken—give your kids chores, the older they get, the more they should have (not to the point of slave labor however). And then she had to lean into it a little too hard like a good wannabe social media “influencer” by talking about stuff she read on some…