I’m not joking: this letter reminds me of nothing like it reminds me of negotiating with my four year old the conditions upon which he gets a cookie after his bath.

It’s a super depressing list to read. Though you do have to know that a lot of people who have signed it (especially these days) don’t have a clue about the details of the case. Many don’t even know his victim was under age or that he drugged her. The pro-Polanski propaganda is pretty heavy.

Thanks for some context. It has been years since I read the details of the case.

I said in another comment that the Hollywood culture didn’t care about the suffering of one girl. I realize now I was wrong. They don’t care about the suffering of anyone who has little or no power. If a powerful man wants something, then he can have it. Making a good movie is somehow such a amazing feet that the most…

This is weird to me. Jezebel was the media outlet that turned me around on this issue. I had heard a little too much of the Hollywood defense of him (and cared to much about the opinions of some famous writers). But Jez really drove home just how horrible a person he was/is, and I realized I’d been buying into a…

He told his rape victim he would “Make her the next Sharron Tate.” Given your context, that makes him sound like a pretty sick person to me.

Seriously, some of us still need to eat today.

I’m not going to speak to the amount of pedophilia in a culture I don’t know much about outside of gossip. I will say that from what I’ve seen of other groups like that, who have power, influence, and access to vulnerable people, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a serious problem.

Unfortunately the judge’s behavior could be seen as misconduct (I won’t pretend enough knowledge of the case to know exactly what, but from what I read antisemitism was a not insignificant part). Not unfortunately for Polanski, as he has been able to use that misconduct as a shield to keep himself from being…

Roman Polanski is a horrible, vile person who deserves whatever legal or karmic repercussions that are coming to him. But, unfortunately, the people running his original trail made a fucking mess of it and his conviction, so now the already painfully hard process of extraditing an wealthy celebrity is even more…

Now I wish I could change my vote, because you’ve made it clear, Freddy is the only winner.

And he look so Presidential.

My husband the first time he did laundry for me: “Honey, I um.... should we maybe get rid of these underpants?”

It was just about a year ago, and it was a pretty great event.

Dan Harmon and Erin McGathy are doing a pretty classy divorce right now. Much love for both of them.

I’m pretty sure anything to the right of the 90% of AARP policy can not properly be called ‘Conservative.’ The name for that is Reactionary.

I think you might be saying that like it’s a bad thing.

Can we take second to talk about that dress. I’m in love.

You can totally try it. But be warned, so women (like me) will bleed right on through it. And then it can linger, and linger and linger. I would talk to your doctor about it before you try it. And, as other have said, it might effect the total amount of birth control you’re allowed to get.

Could be worse, you could be from Wyoming. There is never a good reason for my home state to be in the news. I had to say “We’re not all like that,” so many times I started to wonder if it was even true, or if I was the outlier.