“Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world.”

Remember the people who claimed they were going to vote for him because he was rich and he wouldn’t be corrupted?

Don’t forget Melania and Barron in their golden tower, where agents have to rent space from the president to protect his wife and son.

Yep, he clearly had a type he kept casting over and over in his shows - it’s the number one reason why I’ve always felt uncomfortable about people praising him as a feminist icon. Almost all of his female characters are super skinny, petite, supermodel types with severe mental issues often exploited by men (hello…

Oh yes! I always wondered how Buffy could be seen as a feminist show: Sure, the girl can hit hard, but she’s an emotional doormat all over the series.

Nobody who watched Dollhouse with a critical eye could possibly walk away from that thinking Whedon was the Feminist Hero of our Age. Let’s start with massive doses of what is effectively rape and go from there.

I’ve been rewatching the west wing to make myself feel more hopeful aboutAmerica. Sorkin writes a lot of bad parts for women in there, with major women characters often serving as props for Josh, Sam, or Toby to explain something to that any woman with that job (or who watches the news) would know.

Love this. Exactly - if he was surrounded by “needy young women,” they were there on his say-so! They didn’t just jump out of a dark alley and attack his poor, innocent dick with their neediness...

Not exactly news. I was never a Buffy fan (nor much a fan of Whedon in general at all, tbh), but even I know all you have to do is ask Charisma Carpenter if you want to know what a shit-heel Joss has often been to women, despite all his big talk.

I’m kind of surprised that other people are surprised.

When my ex (who def. identified as a feminist) decided to leave me for a mutual friend, one of his guy friends met up with him at a bar for a drink. After the ex explained everything he’d done, the affairs, etc., the friend was like ‘that’s not very feminist of you, dude.’ As petty as it is, I liked hearing about it.

Well this makes it just that little bit extra creepy that all his leading ladies look the same...

Not if you’re having repeated affairs with women you’re in a position of power over and using your wife as a shield against anyone looking too deeply into your fucked up behavior.

Not surprised by his infidelity despite calling himself a feminist.

Thanks for explaining a little how the racism is here. While I was so happy there were tons of anti protesters out to show the “Free Speech”crowd they were out numbered, I know more than a few people who say all manner of racist stuff to me but think they aren’t being racist at all.

My job in Chicago takes me to many plants and factories and I see the quiet racism. There are too many places that do not have any POC employed. The northwest suburbs are the worst.

Or they gentrify the neighborhoods and jack up the cost to live there so that it is nearly impossible for the original residents to stay.

You hit the nail on the head. Racism in Boston and New York is different to racism in charlottesville. It’s curiously white neighbourhoods and schools contrasted with neighbourhoods of colour that somehow have a much lower median income, and schools that are objectively worse. Eric Garner didn’t get murdered in…

I have my grandma’s neighbor’s son’s jacket from the Vietnam war. Her neighbor actually gave it to my younger brother, I am weirdly obsessed with jackets and coats especially military jackets so he gave it to me. I wore it constantly when I was in art school, I was about 120lbs at the time and I just couldn’t believe…

I have my dead neighbor’s military coat from his World War 2 service. He didn’t have children and was 91 when he died. I was friendly with him the last years of his life and helped him out some (his grouchiness put people off but he was really just sad and lonesome). He was 6'6" tall (Navy submarine service, can you…