You don’t fucking get it, do you?

We need to rehabilitate role models because otherwise the risk is they’ll all keep letting us down and force us to move to someone new and wait for the moment they’ll let us down.

You’re not stalking me. In fact you’re keeping me sane, even if I can’t always relate to all your references.

But...but...she’s a woman. Of course she’s faced adversity. Just like Ivanka Trump, Paris Hilton and Sarah Palin.

Both sides?!?

I see I’m in the greys.

Brevik is a monster. His mass slaughter is the essence of evil. My heart goes out to the survivors and the dead’s families.

Miss America and its ilk always were governed by the reactionary right and misogynist pricks.

Why are your comments still ‘pending approval’, and why have mine gone grey?

I typed a response to you, but I don’t think my comments are showing up, for some reason.

How many years did it take for Disney to get a non-white princess again?

I’m no Wokelord.

I was thinking the same thing.

I’m sorry if I’m derailing the discussion. I’m sorry if I’m inadvertently appearing to be siding with men who have had multiple credible accusations made against them. I’m sorry for my entire experience and for the unhelpful narrative it has left me with and for expressing my trauma publicly and thus adding to an unhel…

I hope you get the chance to undergo that full catharsis and thank your friend, if that is what you want or need (if not, then that’s fine too - I’m sure he was consoled by the fact that he did the right thing, irrespective of whether you had the chance to officially thank him).

I fucking hate what Trump is doing.

Fine. I’m not arguing differently.

There were better films during the late 70s/early 80s.

Sure, but if we can talk about one form of systemic privilege, as I believe we should, surely we can talk about another.

Indeed, the article mentions the very Animal House scene you refer to.