The other thing coming to the fore is that men who have never harassed or abused are more likely to be restraining ourselves out of empathy or a fear of getting caught or social anxiety than because it would never occur to us.

I think one thing to talk about in the post-Weinstein world is how a very large number of men see the world around them very differently from a very large number of women. I think there is some slack I’m willing to give her because she’s a woman and her claim that she couldn’t possibly believe these stories about the…

A creative partnership as long lasting and productive as theirs can be as intimate as a marriage, and no matter what the circumstances, a divorce feels a lot like a death.

Or the one person who trusted his word and always believed him and needed to hear directly from him was his closest professional relationship.

Did you try marketing it directly at Alison Bechdel?

“Pretending that modern media criticism treats female characters and stories written by men the same as ones being written by women the same is absurd, there’s always a ‘problematic’ microscope laid over the male-written ones in a way that almost never is for women writers unless they write something blatantly…

Also - and I can’t stress this enough - she’s been watching a lot of television.

Only if it were done badly. No one is saying Leia and Ripley and Sarah Connor should not exist because they were written and directed by men.

A lot of the things Kate Beaton has made fun still exist as serious things.

It’s probably not a coincidence that two of my favourite recent shows are Jessica Jones and GLOW.

That anecdote is such a perfect microcosm of Oliver Stone’s career.

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We had to put that on there, sometimes early in the morning he would get confused and read the dossier with his nose.

I bet Stone hasn’t even read Conspiracy-A-Go-Go, how can he dismiss it without context?

Putin can do it with one shirt tied behind his back!

If Oliver Stone wants to be part of the important conversations, he should just get himself a Kinja account.

I generally interpret “Right to work” as no union = no rights, so everything else can be assumed.

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I generally agree with you, but in this instance Hornacek was perfectly within his rights, and I wasn’t so much whining as trolling. Endings of movies do enter the popular culture, and come up naturally.

I was murdered and left on a desert island with my soul in a volleyball in a bathtub.