Yes. I was disturbed by the flippancy of this headline because I work in women’s healthcare at a place that includes terminations and this is actually a really, REALLY big deal for us and has serious implications for how our state will respond to future legislation proposals, not to mention for the way we provide…

Young king! #teamjaden4lyfe

These emotional responses don’t help when logical ones would go so much farther.

I think the “big deal” is that these guys have to admit that their students’ perspectives and experiences are as important as those golden gods of the written word that they worship so much. Frankly, I think it comes down to sexism and racism as well. These guys have spent many years establishing the white male vision…

Issues like this illustrate just how white and male-dominated higher education has always been, particularly when juxtaposed with the uproar about Dr. Saida Gundy’s remarks that challenged the white patriarchy. Comparing the two, it’s quite clear that, while students want to be challenged in a context-responsive way…

What you’re describing isn’t what the NYT talks about, exactly. What you’re describing sounds pretty typical when one partner works. I mean, if one partner works and doesn’t want to also manage every piece of their lives, they have to give money to other person. And if they’re not an idiot, they agree on a budget to…

Yeah, this is NOT a trend. This is a white lady being self-important enough to think that the people she heard some gossip about are important enough to write a fucking New York Times article on. Guarantee this author knows of a small group of super rich SAHM who gossip about each other and speculated that ONE of…

He was a cute little NBA child once too!

To paraphrase Derrick Rose, I really believe I was made for this man.

Whatever would have either furthered the plot or built character. This rape did neither. While I personally found it extremely unpleasant to watch, on a structural level it was BAD STORYTELLING.

Yep! Amazing how powerful good acting and good writing can be.

Ah I can see your point about the pattern. I am definitely projecting: to me this looks like yet another incident of them taking all the power and story from a female character and putting her story into the hands of a male character.

What we’re seeing is a brutality against a main female character to develop Ramsey, and I think it’s getting to the point where it’s lazy as hell, not to mention disturbing. This way cheap - we already knew Ramsey was evil, we didn’t need to see a character who’s been built so much in the character brutalized like…

But did you need to see another woman raped to know that? Like, did you not know how devilish he was until last night? The writers are lazy and misogynistic.

But, did you really need to see her get raped to know he was a sadist? As Aamer Rahman says, “...is there a way to create a villain without showing or graphically referring to rape ? I’m sure it’s been done before.” What we’re seeing is a brutality against a main female character to develop Ramsey, and I think it’s…

True that. Which is exactly what rapists say when they’re interviewed: “I never even looked at her face.” So fucking sick of rape as a character development device for the female characters, even more sick of it as a character development device for male characters, and most sick of it as the backdrop for showing…

I’ll tell him you said so when he gets home tonight. #kingbae

Same.

Just say it

It is very ironic. I think the dissonance is between how men [who write movies] view women’s experiences with pain. They see women as delicate but women actually experience a tremendous amount of physical, emotional, and psychological pain. If women were the ones creating these stories, I think it would look much…