Because their emails saying they enjoyed the physical abuse and it turns them on completely supports Ghomeshi’s defense that these were consensual BDSM acts.

Especially since Ghomeshi’s initial (non legal) defense was that these women participated in consensual BDSM encounters. One of them saying she was turned on by the abuse really bolsters that claim.

This is not about her behaviour being inappropriate. The defense seized on these details specifically because they contradict the witnesses’s previous statements, namely, she swore under oath that she never contacted ghomeshi again after the abuse. The emails prove that was either a lie or a misremembrance, either way…

She testified under oath that she NEVER CONTACTED GOMESHI AGAIN after the assault. The email proves she contacted him multiple times. This means she either lied or “misremembered” either way, her credibility is put into question. It’s less about whether this is an appropriate way for a woman to respond to abuse and…

That’s not what the banality of evil means... The concept of banality of evil relates strictly to Eichmann type circumstances. The point was that Eichman was not really some anti-semitic fanatic motivated by ideology but was merely motivated by rising in his organization in a corporate ladder type way and was…

But it makes all the thirty year old white ladies on here feel young, hip and “urban”. We can’t take that away from them can we?

YES! Best post on here. Prepare for the term “woke bae” to be used every other second by the hordes of thirty something Jezebellers trying to recapture their teenagehood.

Hear hear. What is with Jezebel and their latching on to a new slang word and then running it into the ground? It’s like thirty year olds hearing a teenager say a new slang word and then saying it in every other sentence to try and feel young and hip again. Remember when “shade” was in pretty much every other sentence…

Uh oh. Jezebel has found a new slang term that they think makes them seem cool and will now use it in every other sentence for the next 6 months. And you guys were just getting over “shade”. What a shame.

90% he did it. It’s too much of a leap to believe Jay just made everything up. Or that Jay did it and pinned it on Adnan and Adnan just happened to lend Jay his car and phone that day (Adnan’s idea)... and hang out with him all day. What’s Jay’s motive anyways? It’s not that complicated of a case if you aren’t blinded…

So you think Jay did it?

So Don did it with Jay? Because Jay has to be involved, seeing as he knew where Hae’s abandoned car was.

Jay was the one who led the police to Hae’s abandoned car. He was definitely involved. Adnan did it...his story varied because he was trying to minimize his involvement and cover up the fact that he helped dispose of the body.

And? She still chose to do this. The idea that she’s somehow so desperate or under the thumb of the industry/establishment that she had no choice is inane. These women need to be called out for collaborating with a known sexual predator, not mollycoddled and treated like children who don’t know what they are doing…

That’s so so bullshit. Acting like this successful famous woman has no power in this situation is ridiculous. Terry Richardson is famous and successful because women keep lining up to get photographed with him despite the allegations. The idea that they have no choice is ridiculous.

You should see the rest of the pictures. Terry Richardson is in literally half of them, with Rita Ora licking his face, kissing him etc. And in every fucking picture Terry Richardson is giving two thumbs up with a shit eating grin on his face. It’s the skeeviest shit ever. He knows exactly what he’s doing... he’s…

How is Samantha Bee a minority?

Criticism was unfounded then as it is now and that is objectively provable.

Good point however, I would guess the majority of non-American oscar nminees come from Britain and Australia where black people are also minorities so it’s the same deal.

Black people are nominated for Oscars at a rate of about 15% of nominations (and win 17%). Black people make up 13% of the population. So what’s the problem again? People seem to have forgotten that black people are a minority...it will never be 50/50, why should it?