No, I’m Spartacus!

I love that.

I’m getting a very Jian Gomeshi vibe here. There’s an alarm going off in my head telling me this dude is not describing these situations accurately.

For the record, the athletes themselves thanked Trump in their statement. It was the father of one of the athletes who downplayed Trump’s role in the incident.

While I disagree with launching an Ethics Investigation (which we all know will just be co-opted by the Republicans to be used as a witch hunt to attack Democrats), I think the Democrats should be pressuring Franken to resign and that he should resign immediately. We are at the crossroads of finally acknowledging that…

When it comes to sexual assault and harassment, we should be holding up everyone to the same standards, no matter what their political beliefs are. If we let our side off the hook then sexual assault and harassment continues. The reason they persist is because the perpetrators think they can get away with it. The only…

Holding a sexual predator accountable is not “self righteous”, it’s just “righteous”. And NO men don’t get to fondle our breasts as quid pro quo for voting our way.

By “their people” I assume you mean sexual predators?

I’m already sick of the apologists claiming “It was a JOKE! He was on SNL!” like that makes it ok.

I find it hilarious that Max Bemis is only now saying “oh... maybe I should stop playing ‘wow I can get sexual too’.” As if it only just became weird and inappropriate.

I remember seeing/reading about all the skeevy shit those bands were up to on MySpace and Oh No They Didn’t. ONTD still had the stories about Pete Wentz and other dudes, including pics, up for years, but may have finally taken them down after selling out to Buzz Media.

I cannot believe I just read that whole article. It might have been a flattering portrayal of the band back when I was 14 but now the levels of cringe are too much for me.

Yes, exactly this. It’s such a mindfuck, and when you’re a 13, 14, 15 year old, you don’t understand yet just how much these dudes fucking hate you, or why. And because emo kind of positioned itself as an alternative to more traditional masculinity, it gave it this illusion of safety (or at least it did for me) even…

Vaguely scene adjacent but when I was 12 (2002/2003)I went to go see Good Charlotte, with Something Corporate as the opener. The crowd was largely girls around my age, maybe slightly older but lots of young teens, and the lead singer of Something Corporate kept shouting to the crowd that they should show their…

Andy Hurley for sure. In 2003, he invited me and two friends (ages 15-16 at the time) on their bus. He had my friend on his lap until someone yelled at him to get us out of there because we were clearly underage. Seemed like he did it all the time though.

I was thinking the same thing. I was barely in the scene as a teenager and heard first hand stories about someone in Fall Out Boy. I have a bad feeling that all those factors that you mentioned created a place for predators to run free.

YES YES YES YES YES YES

1. I am not surprised by this at all. The lyrics to Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis are all the information I’ve ever needed from Jesse Lacey.

Reading the comments after Jesse posted this made me really regret being a part of the scene for the first time. So many people either forgave him, said the girl was a liar (which why the hell would he post this if she was lying) or said that she must have actually wanted the attention. I won’t listen to Brand New…

It saddened me to see so many people commenting in the other story that they don’t believe Takei’s accuser, even when they believe accusers in other cases.