Fuck you, you fucking piece of shit.

Sounds a lot like that toxic douchebag commenter bullshit again.

When I began reading the article, I figured it was going to be one of these “he says it was consensual but I say it was rape” kind of encounters, but OMG. She describes a truly brutal and traumatic experience. And she told lots and lots of people over the years, which certainly helps her believability. 

You sound like a sexual predator. FYI.

That you think it’s an obvious lie is really scary, actually. Says a whole lot more about you than it does her. That sort of thing didn’t occur to me until my early 20's because I didn’t see myself as a walking hole to fuck surrounded by horny dicks, I saw myself as a human being, hanging out with other human beings. 

What the fuck. It’s so impossible that a 14 year old wouldn’t be knowledgeable about sex? God, it’s always the guys with the anime icons

and other parts are obviously a lie (like saying she had no idea, at 14 (the age of consent in Canada at the time) why the guys were inviting them back to the hotel room)

Age of consent does not magically equal maturity. I don’t think it’s “obviously” a lie that a 14 year old child would be innocent enough to not immediately think that a celebrity she admired was going to try and have sex with her. You can call it naive if you want, but once again, she was a child. She doesn’t have to…

Look—I want her to have her job back, no doubt, and want to take her at her word about why she was let go—but as a battered editor in this battered industry, I know there are at least 1,536,403 reasons other than Trump she could have been let go (granted, a lot of them are industry bullshit, but they’re not Trumpy).

+1 for “querent”, which was new to me.  :-)

Thank you for reporting on this. Ask E. Jean was always a hilarious romp. I once questioned her advice to someone and she and I had a weeks-long dialogue as to the situation (which I believed might be risky to the querent). She was thoughtful and extremely concerned: not merely witty but truly wishing to do the right…

I think there is probably plenty of room for everyone in this story to be the asshole. That being said...

A crime film with strippers as the protagonists is a new thing though. I like crime films, but Hustlers was the first time I’ve wanted to live in one the way plenty of dudes seem to want to vicariously live in gangster movies. I thought it was a great depiction of a certain kind of overwhelming female friendship, too.…

I don’t even think there was an explanation. Doppelupita has some dialog that kind of alludes to what her character assumes is going on, and there’s the imagery with the rabbits. But none of that really makes any sense of the premise.

Just imagine feeling such a deep need to defend a movie against people saying it wasn’t that good. I could live a million years and never understand the headspace of someone who thinks a critic criticizing a movie is somehow personally attacking them, a person who had absolutely nothing to do with said movie.

I didn’t mean for this to be a Fight Club-worthy plot twist, but: Charles, author of the blurb above, and A.A. Dowd, author of the movie’s review, are different people. I am yet a third, different person. It’s a rich tapestry of more than one writer making a website around here. 

Just in case you forgot that this film was made to pander to folks with victim complexes, we have this guy who thinks the AV Club has nothing better to do but sit around hoping that a comic book movie will bomb for some reason.

I can’t speak for everyone but it’s possible that no one voting on this list saw Loqueesha. When a movie doesn’t get much of a (or any?) theatrical release, it can be difficult to pick out WHICH terrible-looking garbage warrants an investigative viewing. There are probably two-dozen bad Netflix movies that have more…

The blurb up top makes it clear what happened. “The AV Club” is a collection of individuals. Some of them thought the film was pretty good, but enough of them really hated it that it made the list. And now the comment section is going to be dominated by 20-something white guys crying about it.

How biased is the A.V. Club against Joker? SO biased that its film editor gave it a MILDLY POSITIVE REVIEW!!!