A lot of the cool Christmas stuff is a German invention. The reason the British, and then later of course also the Americans and other former British colonies, do similar stuff we Germans do for Xmas, is because of Prince Albert brought it to England when he married Victoria. Some of the German rituals were slightly…

Huh? You can still get pictures calendars here in Germany, my nieces always get them for advent. I’m 38.

That’s only Brits, not other Europeans, as far as I know. I quite like them, they are just for fun, really. Kiwis do them as well since their Xmas is pretty much all British, except for the bbq and the dip in the sea, obviously. Xmas in summer is such a weird thing to experience as a German!

Advent calendars are a German invention, actually. They mostly used to be a children’s thing, but somehow they have turned into this craze that kind of baffles me at this point. As a child, I used to be super excited to have advent calendars with cute pictures of animals with glitter behind the 24 doors. The chocolate…

It doesn’t matter though, her teen and pre-teen fan base will still defend her to the death and buy her shit. It’s terrible.

The reason is that she purposefully infantilises herself to appeal to her 12-year old fan base.

I’m surprised you didn’t know this before, to be honest. Given that these creeps get away with that shit 9.9 cases out of 10, why would they stop doing it?  

Awful! :( I wasn’t sure if I remembered it correctly because as a European, American sports are a complete mystery to me. I must have read about this here in Jezebel.

I always felt that there is a frightening overlap between chauvinists and male movie nerds. Anecdotal evidence for this: my best friend studied film and ALL her college crushes were assholes who mocked her for her taste in movies, and who just looooooved to mansplain “good filmmaking” (translate: male-dominated films)…

It’s probably wise to be this cynical, even though it’s depressing. Jimmy Saville, for instance, mostly met his victims through his charity work, especially by visiting hospitals and doing programs for troubled kids and teens. Ugh, and now I feel like throwing up after typing this. Wish they’d revealed what Saville…

Seriously! He’s one of those trolls who pretend to be interested in a longer discourse by writing long walls of texts. I’m at a point, however, where I don’t give a fuck anymore if a man “gets” it or not - women aren’t there to “explain” the difference between dating and sexual abuse to them.

The men commenting here all seem to be absolute creeps. I sincerely hope they really do get scared away from ever interacting with women again!

Um...no, thanks. I’m not particularly interested in partaking in creepily sexist role-play. Nothing wrong with BDSM communities, though it’s definitely not my cup of tea, but the Gorean “philosophy” sounds incredibly one-sided in terms of who profits from it (hint: it’s men), misogynist, and even dangerous to women.

“I think many of you are really missing what is being reported.”

Nope, Jez is generally fine, the trolls are almost always kept in check. I don’t see a single fat-ashaming comment here or victim blaming on any of the sexual abuse articles published via Jezebel, and they sure as hell don’t get upvotes if they do appear. So, nice straw man there, but... nope.

His and Blair’s relationship was so fucking problematic, and they painted it as this great love story - awful! He tried to pimp her out for a hotel and hit her in one episode (hard enough that she was bruised), but it was explained away because “true love” or whatever. Gross.

Asking your colleague if you can masturbate in front of her isn’t “expressing sexual interest”, it is abuse. Fuck off with your verbose bullshit, you know exactly what’s going on here.

And also - don’t touch her or yourself!!! Seriously, all this hand-wringing from dudes who seem to be clueless how to not be creepy and abusive. Just keep your hands off your dick and her body!

WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE POOR MENZ!!!! Their life will be soooooo difficult now because obviously women are just lying liars that love lying about being sexually molested. Nothing more delightful that talking openly about sexual abuse!

Yeah, the new headline is just as awful, wtf.