How nice it must be to be so naive to think that that type of thing doesn’t happen everywhere (not the sexual assault part, but the promoting and strong arming people into representing brands/ideas/products/etc.) but yes, lets make sure we destroy everything about a woman who took opportunities to make herself…

I almost gave up scrolling through the comments and then I came to you, dear Beet.

I don’t know - I hesitate to accuse any partner, without evidence, of an abusive person. I remember seeing Harvey Weinstein on Graham Norton and he was charming as hell.

Yeah. I absolutely do not blame Georgina Chapman for the fact that Weinstein is a rapist and an overall horrible human being. I don’t blame her for the things he did to his victims and I don’t blame her for his temper or intimidation tactics EXCEPT when he bullied women into wearing her clothes to get the brand off…

and then let’s ALSO punish any woman who chooses to wear clothing designed by a woman who didn’t assault anyone but was affiliated with the guy who did.

This.

It’s always the woman’s fault for “allowing” him to do it, as we all know. Controlling our own behavior isn’t enough.

Yes, lets make sure to ruin the life of the woman who DIDN’T assault anyone but was affiliated with the guy who was (and has yet to be held accountable for his actions).

Chicken no, Salmon yes:

Those poor misguided souls. It’s hard enough finding a regular porn flick that shows a man going down on a woman for more than 5 mins.

No. I wrote words that meant I’m not interested in watching Matt Novak or anyone else sniff his own virtual farts when I click on what could have otherwise been an interesting piece. Shoehorning politics into every article is petulant and immediately turns almost 50% of your readers away regardless of the position…

I was more amused when they said “It wasn’t due to editorial mismanagement,” Even though the errors in half the articles make it appear that there are no editors at all..I guess that’s one way to avoid mismanagement.

Excellent and reasonably unbiased reporting!

Not only that, but if a PhD (candidate or granted) does apply for a lot of those jobs (and they will - the academic job market sucks right now, so you will see folks who can’t get post-docs try for just about anything) they get bounced at the interview stage because the people in the rest of the hiring chain freak out…

I like how in my area of the country that electrician and plumbing apprenticeships want 2-3 years prior experience and offer wages slightly better than retail. Then these business owners go on NPR to complain about how they can’t get people interested in working a trade anymore.

This reminds me of a time when I was going to private school on a basketball scholarship, so nobody thought I could hack it in my non-hoop related classes. This one vengeful English teacher, who liked to bully other kids, never believed I was as smart as I had proven I was time and time again... Especially when it…

Not the moral center, the authorial moral center. But since the kid can present proof of the authorial intent, the teacher is still wrong.

One of my former high school classmates had a similar problem. The teacher refused to believe that she hadn’t plagiarized her essay because the language was ‘too refined’ and contained words ‘she couldn’t possibly know the meaning of’ (that classmate wrote for the school newspaper, I read her essay without issues).…

Normally I would agree with you, but this gave me pause:

It’s genuinely concerning that the teacher considers the stalker the moral center of that book.