I’d like to think Radiohead find this hilarious and from here on out will often refer to themselves as the poor man’s Coldplay in interviews.

Exactly.

Holy moley, who the fuck ARE these guys? Look, I literally couldn’t name a Coldplay song, and only a few Radiohead ones. I probably couldn’t identify either band from listening.

I was just following orders, and when I didn’t want to do that anymore, I went on vacation.

Courage is standing up for your convictions when you have something to lose.

What’s an example of something he could have done to resist other than speaking out?

So all of these principled Republicans finally calling for decency will be on board with asking Gorsuch to resign his SCOTUS seat, right? They recognize the abrogation of norms that restricted Garland from being confirmed and acknowledge the Faustian bargain that was remaining silent on Trump and the further…

I know I’m not alone when I say that I have been dealing with unwanted sexual advances since I was 9 and started developing breasts. I’ve had several boys and men show me their genitals, beg me for sexual favors, etc. we’re taught that this is normal and there are heavy implications in this particular socialization…

This is true. My ex is a pedophile. Two kids have come forward, and he pled guilty in court to molesting one of them. He’ll serve no jail time and will not be on the sex offender registry. Yet the courts will not give me custody of my child because they believe I’m Wiccan, which I’m not.

Looking at headlines this morning I saw a comment I needed to bring in here. Weinstien’s headline from his apology “We all make mistakes”. Dude needs to be punched in the face for that.

Hey All, Samantha Bee has some choice words:

I’m glad that you experienced some modicum of justice, and I agree that generally we have strength in numbers and the more we report this behavior, the better, even if someone else’s saga with harassment doesn’t work out as well as yours did, because eventually we will hopefully reach some kind of critical mass. But I…

Believe them? Also, when stories like this come out, stop trying to deflect blame from abusers by victim blaming (like what you’re doing now)?

I’ve been raped three separate times. I’ve been to the police on every occasion. On two I knew my attacker and on one I had a rape kit and gave the identity of the person. None of it got as far as charges laid, despite basically handing the police the thing on a platter time and again. I’d say tons of women just…

Your experience had a positive outcome. Great. My experience when I reported, and the experiences of other people I know, most definitely did not, therefore I have a bit more empathy for the people who are dealing with this kind of garbage. It’s hard to be alone, scared, and ashamed and facing unemployment and worse.…

Reading some of these stories reminded me on the essay in the UTNE READER decades ago, about how it would be easier to convict a man of exposing himself than committing rape. If you just tell the cops, “he flashed me and played with himself” nobody gets to ask you what you were wearing, was this a shakedown, etc.…

I literally just spoke up. About 15 minutes ago.

My mother went to American University in Beirut for medical school in the early 90s. There was one associate dean (who had been working there for nearly 20 years and was basically a legend in his field) who only invited female students to his house on weekends/holidays for dinner. Everyone just said it was his way of…

i’ve suddenly developed this new thing where i throw up into my mouth every time i hear or read the word “massage”.

It’s not by a long shot. His M.O. is painfully familiar to anyone who’s done any work with sexual harassment law. This is textbook quid pro quo harassment, and you see the same pattern over and over: powerful men taking advantage of usually younger women who aren’t in a good position to resist or fight back. Getting…