I am 100% NOT OK with how Millie Bobbie Brown’s handlers are presenting/promoting here. She’s a fucking kid. Everyone else on that show that’s a kid gets to be a kid. But she’s getting over-adult-ized, and it’s fucking disgusting.

From what I understand, her family is part of the problem. :-(

Pretty much. And sadly, a lot of folks who enabled this to happen are gonna get away with a slap on the wrist or nothing at all. It’s just horrific and fucked-up and will forever change those rose-colored Olympic-spirit glasses when I come across NBC dedicating a big block of time to USA Gymnastics every four years.…

Why can’t it be both? I think we need to be telling men to be less shitty, and women to be more assertive. It is discussed all the time how women are socialized to be polite and pleasing, and it is time to reverse and undo and never reinstate that shit. It is also time to reverse and undo and never reinstate all the…

Agreed I have stopped intercourse, told a man I was uncomfortable and changed my mind, and left even as he crawled after me begging me not to leave and grabbing at my clothes. I cried when I got home and had a stern talk to myself about what I was doing. I have also stayed in the encounter and just dealt with it til I…

Shouldn’t the conversation be both? Men, stop being shitty and pay attention when someone doesn’t seem interested/uncomfortable. Women, speak up/leave if you’re uninterested/feel uncomfortable.

He didn’t ‘pull out’ his dick. It was already out there. They were both naked and she was sitting on the floor beside him while he sat on the couch. Moments passed enough between her “let’s chill” conversation of indeterminate length. Then he pointed at his dick. Because, again, her face was next to his thighs and…

Slightly off topic, but at first I wouldn’t consider dating someone who has more money to be a power imbalance... but on the other hand if they take you out to dinner at a restaurant you can’t afford, I could absolutely understand someone feeling pressured to react positively to their advances to not get stuck with…

Why?? Because we need to stand up for ourselves and stop putting ourselves in uncomfortable and maybe even dangerous situations just because we are afraid of hurting someone’s feelings.

It’s also a perfect teaching moment about enthusiastic non-consent, like leaving.

See, this is where the generational divide shows itself. I am almost 50 and have been out here in the world as a minority woman for what feels like forever. Due to the times in which I came of age, I believe that there is not automatically a power imbalance just because one person in the couple is a decade older than…

This absolutely needs to be talked about, and talked about in the context of this story. Of course his behavior was shitty. Guys, even the most well meaning of them, can be totally brain-dead jerks when they are horny. Some guys need to be straight told or else they don’t get it and will keep trying bad, shitty,…

“well, no means no, plus you have to physically leave the space for them to respect that, otherwise I think it’s just awkward sex.”

“Why does that need to be the conversation?”

they have already violated you in a very profound way.

Why isn’t the conversation that men need to learn not to take advantage of people’s obvious discomfort

Every time she expressed hesitation or said she wasn’t comfortable with something, he stopped. She doesn’t try to leave until the end and he doesn’t stop her. Instead he calls her an Uber. Also, she’s a grown adult too and doesn’t seem like she was forced into anything. Being inconsiderate is not the same thing as…

This is what gets to me about this story. He apologized and left her alone. What else does she want out of this? If there are multiple stories that show a pattern from Aziz, then let’s hear that. I’m sorry she had to go through this on a date but I also don’t know what recourse she wants from him.

She also expressed her feelings to him the next day. He heard her out and apologized. I see no reason to doubt the sincerity of his apology. His statement on the matter affirms that he took her words to heart.

This was a bad date. She had a horrible date with a clueless guy who thought he was being sexy and hot. She was made to feel uncomfortable, and it wasn’t right.