“We need to encourage and support women in the entertainment industry!

I will never understand the full out Jennifer Lawrence hatred on this site. Except for the whole “build a woman up simply to tear her down piece by piece immediately after” mentality that unfortunately infects this place all too often. It’s gross and I hate it.

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I’m on level 4 here but hurtling toward 6

for the same reason local economies collapsed in coal country - because we’re automating a ton of jobs out of existence, and rather than taking that additional productivity and using it to give workers universal healthcare or a universal basic income, we’re letting jeff bezos buy small nations and have 15,000$ of…

I read this and felt like instead of telling any stories about the event, or try to connect with the people, you wrote a diary entry about how you went somewhere you weren’t super comfortable and weren’t welcoming in return to the people who tried to speak to you and then you left. That’s a huge bummer all around and…

(EDIT: it looks like maybe Maximo’s reply is still in the greys, or got deleted, so this appears to be responding to nothing — sorry for the confused reader)

A self-reflective response is the most likely avenue to success in a given instance (since it takes the onus of guilt off the perpetrator and lets them hear the…

responding to ads to clarify the terms of their policies.

You guys, Alfred (“Al”) Rava is my neighbor and is a fucking terrorist on Nextdoor. His favorite online pastimes are threatening to sue others who say a bad word against him, ACTUALLY’ing people, and responding to ads to clarify the terms of their policies. He is a nightmare human being.

Often, that really is the case — men really want the child to have their genes. And it’s good insurance against child abuse as well.

was any other name than “Elsa” even considered? Frozen for 24 years...... The cold never bothered me anyway.

They would have no opportunity to be ineffectual if supervisors and coworkers were not using coercion and implicit threats of violence to get women to perform unwanted sex acts.

Do you know how traumatic it was for this guy to taker orders, even theoretically, from a Black President? He’s still not over it, and probably will be on disability for the rest of his life.

You’re separating “jobs” from “work,” which is disingenuous. But to claim that women aren’t doing dirty and physically exhausting labor is pretty silly.

Actually the exact opposite is true in most of the developing world.

Lol, truck driving. That should have shown up on ESPN after poker, but before cheerleading.

Oh yes, I am sure no construction or mining company has ever discriminated against women. Find a mike, we have ourselves a comedian.

There’s also a possible third group: women who were abused by Weinstein, but sucked it up and dealt with it because they were told it was expected of women in their industry, and now that it’s all coming out, they’re only now allowing themselves to feel angry over their violation. That’s the feeling I got from her…

Translation: Those who have harrassed and/or assaulted me are on notice to apologize. Names will be dropped.