It’s like when people freaked out about Michelle Williams getting a thousand dollars for reshooting her scenes in All The Money in the World (fab ironic title, no?) while Mark Wahlberg got a million.

I actually wrote a college essay once on the lack of misogyny in his writing, and contrasted it with the baked in misogyny of several famous white writers. So much for that hope, I guess.

Thanks, I needed that. This is so depressing.

I held a grudge against him for saying he wanted to hit a woman he saw using a Kindle on an airplane. This was 9 or so years ago. Then I accepted I was being petty. So, I read a lot by him, and really liked his writing. I can’t say I regret reading him, but obviously that’s done.

THIS IS A NEUTRAL COMMENT, FREE OF CONFLICT AND OPINION.

This sucks. I really like his work and we really need more Native American writers. They don’t all have the same audience as Louise Erdrich.

Eve Tuck’s response is spot on. At this point, it seems like it’s not aberrant behavior but rather just one of many possible options for men look to gain power.

There’s gonna be hell to pay when the generation that this country allowed to be terrorized by gun violence in schools finally comes of age. I really believe that.

And they will be voting soon.

I hope republicans end up finding high schoolers harder to ignore than kindergartens. These kids will turn in to a force to be reckoned with and I’m rooting for them.

They’re next.

racoons have thumbs

Mostly thumbs.

Direct action gets the attention of the entire community, which is what gets politicians to care. And more than that, it tells the kids who are traumatized and need protection right now that 1) they have agency and 2) people care about them. Actions like this promote community and prevent PTSD.

But honestly, what does it really matter? This is the 3rd/4th Post about some random-ass dude on a feminist blog.

For what it’s worth, I am one of those burners (not to protect some secret main account, but because the vagaries of the greys system are absurd and I rarely have anything interesting to say) and this is a HORRIBLE outcome.

It matters because he got banned from a place where he was a longtime commenter and friend to quite a few people. That ban appears to be based on specious commentary from anonymous accounts, which ought to make other longtime commenters concerned about whether we’re gonna be the next ones to get booted because our…

It’s an appropriate word. I’m sorry that you don’t like having your mob labeled that way. Have you considered simply not reading the things I write, or am I taking up too much space? Is this space “cis only”, in addition to being “women only”?

Seriously fuck everyone who gave that Irritated Woman account a time of day. You shouldn’t be able to create a burner to air grievances against an individual, cite zero specific incidences where you’ve been mistreated by that person or they’ve done something wrong and be taken seriously.

That’s really bad. I lurk here all the time and he never bothered me, in fact I liked his Britain news update and many other posts. So but g deal he posts first a lot and posts often but it is so easy to scroll past and he never monopolized anything. This feels like junior high. I never saw him shut any woman up.