It’s taken us a long time to respond, but we’ve been listening to everything you’ve been saying.

It bugs me because Jezebel has been on fire with their reporting on this topic lately and then...this mess comes along.

Yes, let’s ignore the fact that alleged serial rapist and human trafficker Harry Weinstein is still walking around free as a bird with no sign of that changing anytime soon, and redirect our vitriol to random women in his professional circle!

Yeah. That’s what bothers me, too. So many men were involved, but you’re going after her? Bullshit.

I was really baffled by this part too - aside from the whole Trump aspect of it, I just don’t think it’s Meryl Streep’s job to police the abusers of Hollywood and I’m surprised Jezebel apparently does.

Agreed. The reporting is beyond lazy, to the point of making this post intellectually incoherent.

Clicks. When you read one of these and the author omits a widely discussed bit of context, it’s for the outrage clicks.

Why exactly is Jezebel promoting the Trump supporter who made the Meryl Streep posters?

I would prefer them not going, yes.

Its why I won’t vote for her.

Agreed. I only wish that I had the sharpness and acuity of my 87 year-old dad. He blows me away with some insight, fact, or historical context every time we speak. And historical context is no small thing.

The person who, as a lawyer, defended big tobacco and had an A NRA rating until 2012 (there must have been no mass shootings and no overboarding gun violence in the US before 2012) is progressive and authentic? She took money from people who make money by poisoning others and she took money from the gun lobby, until…

Yep. I want somebody different. If Sanders run his punk ass better run as an Independent. Don’t be piggy backing and using the Democrats when you see fit.

I’m not sure I buy this too old business. As long as someone’s in good enough health to perform the functions of the office, I don’t see the problem. Besides, we always package them with a VP of the same party who takes over if they croak, so what exactly are we worried about?

That’s not really the problem though. Frankly anyone who voted for Jill Stein I would say is the problem.

To be fair though, Franken way more progressive than Gillibrand, and absolutely no harm would have come from doing a full investigation on his behavior, but Gillibrand has been angling for a more politically active role for a while and Franken was an easy, not to mention rising, target. We often talk about how there…

I’ll take Biden for one term than 45 for two.

Well the same people who are all over Slate crying about Franken are the ones who are all over Slate stanning Bernie.

I mean...ok...no, they weren’t — hint hint, this was not penned by a Bernie Bro — but if you’d like to rewrite history so that Bernie types were big Franken fans in the first place, be my guest. As a leftist, though, I don’t really care too much about Bernie stans’ feelings.

I’m a leftist, and I think Franken should have gone through the full investigation. Because, as a leftist, I think we should allow the system a chance to work, otherwise there’s no reason to encourage and raise leftists into the system.