Elaine May and Mike Nichols were both geniuses who went on to do so much good writing independently of each other. (Though Mike Nichols’ Wikipedia page is especially astounding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Nich…)

Because “Space opera” is a specific genre. Google.

No. She has a tiny waist for her size, over all. She is not carrying anything on her stomach.

I definitely believe Schumer wears a 6-8. I’m 5'5 and weigh 120 lb. (maybe a little less) and am a 4 about 50% of the time and a 6 about 25% of the time. But that’s because I have no God Damn waist. I like to think that I still have a pretty cute shape. But I’m more of a young Megan Mullaly or Pamela Adlon type. If I…

“The problem is the trivialization of this platform when squandered.” This is a sentence that doesn’t mean anything. You’re an idiot.

Female journalists of his generation actually created the testimonial genre: Important especially on the French, Latin American and Russian front. That’s literary journalism at its best. And I can think of a half dozen women from that genre that he could have named. Most people know fiction better than nonfiction. But…

Fuck. I didn’t realize that. More proof that love doesn’t imply solidarity.

The OP wants us to believe that this event, which is happening in the present, is past. Because he wants us to believe that misogyny is in the past. Typical misogynistic pseudoanalysis masquerading as “contextualization.”

Another thing I love about your post: That you highlighted the numbers/dates. You are that desperate to insist that something that is happening right now is actually, like institutional misogyny, in the past.

Why are you pretending that you don’t understand the common language usage of “literally”? Oh yeah. Cause you’re an asshole.

I think it’s hilarious that you are sad for an 84 year old white man, because his legacy is being tarnished, when the whole point is that women don’t get a legacy at all, and are essentially dead to the world even while they are alive.

“If anyone wants to be in a healthy relationship they have to be empathic to the other.” When I say men don’t have to be empathetic to women I don’t mean to be in a healthy relationship. I mean to survive on this planet. It is totally optional for men.

Even though we know that victims of rape on campus are more likely to drop out of school, and not finish their degrees than their attackers even if they report their attack and the attacker is disciplined. Attackers are not crippled by any guilt or trauma associated with the incident. As evidenced by the fact that the…

“He DID perhaps have a promising career (I don’t know - can you have a swim career unless you are Olympic level? Probably not).” Ha ha. It is amazing how the smallest accomplishment imaginable translates to “a promising career,” when the subject is a white man.

Yeah. Anyone who knows anything about alcohol and sex knows that alcohol doesn’t make sex easier. Also, how is it that these guys are always too drunk to realize that their victim is unconscious or crying but not too drunk to get their victim alone, somewhere private; or to remove evidence or run if caught?

No. Not anything. If he got into a car while drunk and hit someone no one would have a problem calling him a murderer. If he got drunk and started a forest fire he would be charged with arson. It’s only when you get drunk and assault a woman that your culpability is debatable.

Yeah. I give major side eye to any doctor who admits that they generally assume their complaining patients (who I know are mostly women) are depressed. “You’re depressed” is a default diagnosis for women. It’s the most frequent “wrong diagnosis” given to women with ADHD, for instance. Don’t get me wrong. I agree with…

“I just can’t get behind the idea that magically their Lyme is immune to testing and medicine that treats Lyme.” I don’t think anyone is arguing that though. I think most people who believe they have lyme disease believe that their Lyme impacted their nervous system. That doesn’t seem outrageous to me, or to any of…

Yeah. You might be a doctor but you aren’t a medical scientist. I have met plenty of medical scientists that are withholding judgment on whether or not contracting lyme can lead to long term neurological damage. That to me, seems like a reasonable question. Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue are, obviously, bullshit…

It’s not tangible though. The way that someone speaks is tangible. Their gestures are tangible. The sense that you and they are creating, participating in and exploring a shared reality is tangible. And all of those things can be augmented by someone’s intelligence and education. But someone’s oeuvre is not tangible.…