Never forget that Shirley Temple movies were called “baby burlesques”.

I fought with white feminists after the ERA went down that we needed to reach out to disempowered communities and try to work against Reagan and the swing right the country was making. The ones I knew were all affluent and were SAHM and their reaction was “Ewww.”

Thank you for doing the author’s job for them. They seemed content to be a hyperbolic bomb thrower, and made their primary argument without any sources or examples leaving it open to easy, lazy rebuttal. The kind of tired and counter-productive shit-stirring that this network has been engaging in more and more.…

Ha, I’m not active on PSN these days, but any place where politically aware white women and women of color gather will find white women embarrassing themselves.

But I learn from my mistakes, I listen, and I apologize for my fuck ups. That’s the most I can do.

This looks surprisingly like a Renaissance portrait.

There shouldn’t be a difference? I’m sorry, that is fucking stupid. Stripping all nuance from the conversation is not productive. Turning a range of behavior into a black and white conversation isn’t realistic. I don’t understand why, in so many contexts, we liberals care about details and nuance, we understand that…

(rubs hands together) may i just be the first to say...

So – I’m a little busy right now to do a truly comprehensive list without getting a check for it – especially since I’d essentially be doing the author’s work – but would it not have been useful to at least list *some* of the most prominent current women whose work has been co-opted and whitewashed and erased?

“If you’re talking about gender equality but not talking about racism, you just don’t have effective reform.”

Perhaps our friend MD is on to something:

Abuse at any age, male or female is devastating to a person’s psyche, but as an adult you usually have some tools that you can use to process the trauma. For children, it shapes their entire lives. It changes the way you view love, bodily autonomy and your general outlook on life. Each person choosing to speak up is…

I get the point you’re trying to make here, and I appreciate it. Yes, it is bad for men to rape, and it’s also bad (but not as bad) for them to sometimes deliberately ignore cues when they are inconvenient. But unfortunately, just about every straight man has probably done some of these bad things, so cutting them out…

Yes.

Truth. I couldn’t outwardly acknowledge it until I was 48. Part of the culture of masculinity forces you to keep that shit buried deep because being a male victim “means you’re weak” ... even if the abuse happened during childhood.

His horrible story and those of others who suffered like him are the final edifice of the fact Hollywood isn’t going to change. Even with all the declarations of stopping abuse towards predominantly adult women post-Weinstein no one has yet to shine a light at that even more disgusting and sinister preying on of…

THIS.

Dissagree. Though its not the main problem, both men and women can work to break this cycle. This woman felt too afraid to say ‘naw, I’m good and leave’. I don’t think he gave her any real reason to not to be able to do that.That’s a problem. The way women are systematically taught to please men is that problem. This…

Bullshit. Lena isn’t even ugly she chooses she chooses to dress frumpy and not be an Instagram model. She is an average woman that wants everyone to know she doesn’t fit the Hollywood mold but then gets mad that people treat her as a regular as a person and not a supermodel. Is a pretty typical liberal white girl with…

Maybe I’m misreading but didn’t Schumer explicitly say “I believe with and empathize with the woman, this experience wasn’t right,” whereas Dunham actively contacted the media to say “This woman is lying for money”? Even if they’re both troubling I don’t even see how those two responses are similar.