“Caught up in the likes” is also a journalist’s juicy interpretation, and the thing that everyone is getting caught up with.

That’s an interesting hypothesis that the accused rapist’s defense attorney would be stupid not to indulge, even if it has no basis in reality. The point that matters is that he did rape her. The only satisfactory excuse would be if the two women told the man that they would be consentingly playing out a rape fantasy,…

Right, because the cops would have arrived within the 10 minutes it took him to raper her and any attempt to stop the crime would not have put Lonina at risk of violent retribution at all, or herself being raped for that matter. Oh, and the cops would have believed the two girls, too. You’re totally right about all…

You’re ignoring the fact that she’s a contemporary American 18 year old. Hardly more advanced than a 7 year old.

Bracing myself for the flame..., but:

All major news outlets have intel assets on their editorial boards. It’s been that way since the height of the cold war, when Intel was popularly imagined to be benign and ‘pro-america.’ That doesn’t mean the report isn’t true. The presence of intelligence representatives has more of an impact on what isn’t reported…

These guys are helping us to future-cope with the ‘research’ the NSA is undertaking. It’s nice to see that they’re transparent after the fact, at least, and they never exploited their clandestine privileges, or exposed anyone’s identity. In that regard they are paragons of ethical behavior compared to our intelligence…

“Heroic dose” is a term made popular by Terrance McKenna, which acknowledges that the ingestion of entheogenic substances in sufficient volume induces a microcosmic ‘hero’s journey’ to the ‘dark night of the soul’ and back. Misty’s ‘hero’s dose,’ is a minor variation. Think: Dr. T. Leary meets Joseph Campbell.

You are very smart. Your analysis is astute. This has been so much fun and I feel my life is enriched by our dialog.

This has nothing to do with the capability of women. Nor about New Journalism. Especially not about women’s achievement in writing. It’s about Talese’s particular interests, which are personal things, and a much smaller subset than the New Journalism movement.

Talese wasn’t concerned with Silent Spring or Pentagon Papers style of journalism. He was concerned with the freaks, weirdos, outliers, no? I mean if a female journalist had made her name on interviewing John Waters types, the Ted Bundies of the world, the Bettie Pages, or In Cold Blood type subjects, then yeah, she…

You picked up on the joke. Very astute.

For something to be “inspiring,” in the general sense, or “uninspiring,” likewise, is one thing. But that is not what the question was concerned with, nor remotely what Gay said.

How is not finding inspiration in a set of individuals equated with misogyny?

There’s no accounting for taste in the arts. And at least he told the truth. It’s better than coddling such a parochial question with a condescending consent to political correctness so as not to hurt anyone’s feelings, which seems to be the response that would have been satisfying to you. But hey, keep up the…

Good application of the Chuck Norris Law.

It’s not a real picture, nor is it based on a real picture

The promise of power and riches, which only participation in representative governance can... oh, never mind.

she decided to clap back

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