This. This this this this this. I’ve said it here before: endorse Bernie, if you want, Gawker and Jezebel. Fine. But stop pretending to have anything remotely approaching objectivity in this primary. Every 10th Bernie story will slap his hand a bit. And about every 10th Hillary story doesn’t start from the premise…
Erso
erso
Oh, in a few years you’ll have plenty of second weddings to go to. Trust me. I thought I’d phased out of my wedding years by about 36. 11 years later, they are picking up again - friends and family who are moving on to Soul Mate 2.0 version.
Hmm. Here’s my thinking: did a legal, consenting adult come up to him and say, “Hey, Coach, how's about you give me one of your famous groin rubs?” If not, then I’m going to have to say yes. Yes, it’s sexual misconduct.
I'm comfortable calling them Bernie-assholes if you prefer.
That had been my view until recently - trying to remain positive about both, take the high road and all that. But he’s just making shit up about her now, and I can’t say I “like” him anymore. He’s an entitled white man, and if I have to vote for him in the general, I’ll be holding my nose and doing so, then laughing…
And as Gen-X, I’m telling you that’s fine, but you are in the minority.
I know. I wanted to find that girl and tweet back to her that this 47 year old was using the internet when she was still in fucking diapers. And for that matter, so was my 73-year old mother. Stupidity and disrespect for other women.
Weird, I would have guessed that cancer is the cancer of mankind.
His entire existence is a parody. He’s just not in on the joke though.
Okay, Deadspinners, you had me at patriarchy.
Right? People who defends rapists (and I don’t mean lawyers - I mean families/friends/commentators on blogs, etc) will first argue the he said/she said defense, but then when there actually is a witness - which is so rare - it doesn’t convince them of guilt anyway.
You’re absolutely right. The fact that is, this has not only the capacity to, but a very strongly likelihood of completely altering the victim’s life course. It is never an angle that gets examined, and is more so the tragedy to an incalculable degree.
You know...there is a part of me that gets the “once promising” thing. Not as a justification or something that was taken away from him. But as something he himself gave up by committing rape. He DID perhaps have a promising career (I don’t know - can you have a swim career unless you are Olympic level? Probably not).…
If I was Oprah, “Fuck this guy with a cactus” would definitely go on the list of new favorite things. “Everyone look under you seat for a cactuussssssss!”
Just when I think Chris Matthews is a giant boob, he does something like this. That and his crazy devotion/adoration for his wife is what keeps me coming back.
I imagine my friends think I lived a much more interesting life back then than I actually did. My pack of girlfriends from high school were all either married by 23, or at least seriously involved with the men they would ultimately marry, so I think simply by being single, dating guys for a few months here and a few…
God, that’s awful. It sounds like you were going through your own version of hell, so you shouldn’t feel badly you didn’t support her because that sounded like a good day to you. Which isn’t to say what she felt, from her lens, was any different than what you felt . But you were young and who could have equipped you…
That SNL sketch was really critical to cementing public opinion about the hearings at the time. I don’t remember this being a great time for political satire in SNL’s history - not like the 70's or the first decade of this century, at least - but they nailed it.
I vividly remember those hearings. As a lifelong Democrat I can tell you: everyone on that committee looked like a bumbling idiot. There were no heroes among the Democrats when Anita Hill testified. And I’m not at all surprised that Biden’s people tried to rearrange the facts, given that he was still contemplating a…