Lol by his own admission, his career “has surely benefited”from sexism and racism but if making things more equal takes away those benefits, that’s super unfair.

“Atwood backlash is not simple smackdown of a prominent, successful woman.”

“However, most white Americans are raised to accept authoritarianism. So besides the implicit racial bias, there is a deeply ingrained belief that if ‘the law’ does it, it cannot be wrong.”

But it is! It’s just more illegal for people of color:

It tends to irritate people when women act as if they have something to offer the world.

“Handmaid’s Tale aside, she doesn’t have the literary chops to be so full of herself.”

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Thank you so much to Madeleine and the rest of the Jez staff for their commitment to sorting out community issues. I can’t imagine how trying it must be to sort through hundreds of flagged comments, and from the comment you linked, Madeleine sounds like she is incredibly patient and fair.

Yeah I think he just learned about smell-the-fart acting.

Okay, I literally have zero problem with you and I’m not trying to have a problem with you. I honestly don’t understand what is cliquey about anything I wrote. Isn’t the cliquey thing to create a problem with me because you have a problem with someone I like? Or to have a problem with me because I don’t agree with…

I mean, listen, you and I are obviously not going to agree on this because from your comments here (and mine), it’s pretty apparent we have different opinions. I’ve always really liked chocolatechips and valued her contributions, it’s clear from the responses here that I’m not alone in those sentiments. You don’t…

The grey thing is a huge problem and I always feel so bad that I can’t see all the greys. I emailed kinja about it weeks ago but they didn’t seem to...recognize it as a problem? Like at first they said it was an issue with my own internet app and then they ghosted me 👻

I’m taking you out of the greys because I didn’t want to silence anyone on this thread and you don’t seem like a troll from your history. But yeah, your comment is the kind of willful misinterpretation and word twisting that makes people crazy.

Thank you, too :)

Hi! I responded under your second comment and I’m paranoid it won’t show up so gonna just link it here: https://jezebel.com/1825035491

I really can’t? Like the conversation disappeared since chocolatechipcookies got banned. But there are some more details (from me and another commenter who was there) here in comments.

To me it seemed that chocolatechipcookiesforbreakfast was using that quote (the one that said women shouldn’t act naive) to say that it bugged her how people who were not victims were acting like they “never knew” Weinstein had a reputation for being a predator. I remember this because she specifically mentioned Matt…

Exactly, you said it much better and in 1/4 the words than I did.

It surprises me that you’d write anything sour, scowlybrowspinster—-whose bitch face has not rested since November 8, 2016. Lol. I love your name.

Yes it was very similar, tbh. The other commenter came out of the gate guns blazing, as did a couple others, and no one would give her the benefit of the doubt in regards to what she meant. It was the most frustrating thing to read through. I totally get why cookies got mad. I got mad just reading the thread.