Doesn’t that also kinda answer itself, too, though? If Joe’s store opening causes Kathleen to suffer to that great a degree, she’s not going to “make friends” with him when he comes around. She’s going to throw him out on his ass.

It is correct in situations like the World Cup finals where goal differential makes no difference.

I think it’s a campaign-ender for Klobuchar. It wouldn’t necessarily be for other candidates, but Klobuchar’s entire appeal is that she’s Midwestern and folksy and nice. If she wants to survive, that has to come across as genuine. This not only destroys that appeal, it’s not just a one-time story, either—there are…

Sure, she could have and probably should have left sooner than she did. None of which is relevant to whether what Aziz did is okay. Staying in his apartment is not consent to sex. None of the other things she did are consent to sex, either. That shouldn’t be confusing to men, and I don’t think it actually is. It’s…

I never said it was assault; I never called him a predator. I’m not particularly interested in defining whether he or it was either of those things; I’m mostly interested in whether it’s morally right or wrong. And it pretty clearly isn’t right. The fact that many other men engage in similar behavior doesn’t make it…

Those aren’t clues. They aren’t vague. The third is an explicit no, involving the actual phrase “no, I’m not ready to do this.” If you had sex with a woman after she said the third example above with you, you would be charged with rape. For your benefit and for the benefit of women you interact with, if these kind of…

He isn’t on the same par as CK, but this seems pretty fucking clear to me:

Yeah, I remember plenty of controversy, albeit mild, about both the domestic violence implications and the skeeviness of the video/the general jailbaity overtones of Spears’ early marketing.

Well, it’s an adaptation of the book. The book has two reasons it’s set in the ‘90s: first, because it’s a semi-autobiographical story based on the author’s own life (the conversion-camp part is made up, but the experience of growing up gay in small-town Montana is not). Second, because the protagonist’s isolation and…

In case you haven’t gleaned this from previous installments of French #metoo coverage involving Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot, the French (at least historically) have had a different interpretation of sexual harassment and assault than Americans do. And they think we’re being provincial for ours.

Most people here claiming MoviePass’s business plan is terrible don’t seem to understand what MoviePass’s business plan actually was, though. “Pay for people to go to the movies but hope they don’t go >>>> ??? >>> profit” was never it.

If she bought through Costco she’s got a shot—it sounds like Costco is refunding some people. Otherwise, no, MoviePass themselves isn’t offering refunds.

He’s gross.

I would be shocked if there are any billionaires in Silicon Valley who don’t attend sex parties. Except maybe Zuckerberg, since he still seems to be suffering under the delusion that he can run for president at some point.

I don’t know what to believe, because there is no doubt in my mind that Elon Musk totally attends sex parties, but also there’s been more information that’s come out that backs up that this was an official, venture capitalist firm-sponsored party (which raises all sorts of new and terrible issues!), so it’s entirely…

I don’t know how old she is without looking it up, but Roiphe is 100 percent associated with third-wave feminism (and then only as an antagonist). Her career was launched in the early ‘90s. She has no overlap with the second wave whatsoever. I’m not sure she was even born yet during the second wave!

Yeah, this is a bizarre take. Deneuve has been pretty open throughout her career about not wanting to be identified with the feminist movement, and Roiphe has specifically positioned herself as a foil to feminists from the get-go. It might be possible to make this case using other second-wave feminists, but Deneuve…

Did anybody think multiple Gawker Media employees wouldn’t be on it? This is the place where Jezebel writers had to write several public blog posts calling their own company out on how they were getting spammed with really gross, violent, pornographic images in the comments to get them to do anything about it, and…

A number of women, including Alexander, claimed they created the list in an attempt to muddy the waters for the article’s fact-checkers and the writer that was trying to doxx her.

They aren’t based on a rumor. Donegan’s article confirms that she was being contacted by Harper’s to establish that she was the one behind that article. They wouldn’t have done that if they weren’t seriously considering outing her.