There is a definitely a conversation around how victims are portrayed and class intersects that, but it would be nice if Jezebel or any other outlet that pushes that narrative would at least be honest about some of their framing around Reade. It’s not that “she had economic issues, so clearly she’s lying”, its the…

You know, I can understand how, at first glance, the NYT piece can read as classist.

“For months, journalists have worked to corroborate Tara Reade’s allegation that she was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden in 1993. Much of that reporting has focused on the particulars of the allegation: journalists have interviewed 74 former Biden staffers and dug up tape appearing to show Reade’s mother calling into…

I don’t believe for one second you give even a teeny tiny shit about antisemitism. Nice way to try to reframe the conversation though. And if you are Jewish, shame on you for acting like our plight has been as fucking dire these last 400 years IN AMERICA. 

I swear to all that is unholy that I’m not concern trolling or arguing in bad faith.

Let’s say I snap my fingers and everyone stops being a shitbag and believes the victim. Like, tomorrow, boom. What happens then?

Like, how does she find justice without us being subjected to 4 more years of the worst president in…

I can’t confirm this, but speculation was that it was called city chicken because people couldn’t raise chickens in the city, and had to buy all their meat from a market. So it was “chicken for city folks.”

I applaud you for being both the alley and the oop in this joke. It’s a shameless move and I support it!

That was in the before times 

No. You know what? Fuck you. I’ll buy out every theater showing of this well-intentioned fluff romcom just to spite the bullshit overhype of Christopher Can’t Tell a Story But Ooh Looky Cool Cinematography Goddam Pretentious Fanboi Wankfest Nolan.

Where were the cops when King Kong Bundy the Wrestler stole that joke?

Cops cancelled? Eh, whatcha gonna do?

I thought that I addressed this part when I said that white people shouldn’t say the word, but to be clearer, no it’s not okay for whites to say the word even when singing a song. Be that as it may, I find it hard to get “outraged” that one did so four years ago.

I used to be careless with it and just sing/rap it when listening to music. I wouldn’t have used the word in any other context but hadn’t considered it was also not appropriate in that context. Maybe because I wasn’t doing it in front of anyone (usually alone in my car). It took seeing someone get called on it several…

Should have added, I agree that they’re not terribly productive, other than public examples of what we don’t want more of. But we knew that, that’s why we’ve been evolving past that. Also, a one-off 20 years ago in a comedy skit is different to me than happening now in a secret Facebook group. The shouting in a public…

Probably an unpopular question, but one I have nonetheless:

/Christopher Plummer waits for phone to ring

I really like the American Gods intro, wish that show wasn’t such a giant mess.

The police have made it pretty clear they don’t care about rape and sexual assault.

Lifehacker could step up and include more articles written by African American and POC authors....

Honestly? (Created a burner to respond to this)