Can you guarantee anyone who names names will still have a job afterwards? Until then, it’s understandable that people hesitate. That’s the whole point.

Amidst all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, hopefully the AV Club commentariat will find it in their hearts to praise the courage of these brave women, who will now have to deal with a ton of flaming shit from every beardbro on the Internet in addition to whatever backlash they suffer in their careers. And that’s…

So, all the bros who spent the last few months screaming at Katie Rife for daring to talk about this and INSISTING THAT THERE WAS NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT until some accusers came forward and until then this was just a plot by mean ol’ Jezebel and AV Club to smear poor Louie...

It’s revealed early in the film (which makes her and Thor’s sex scene, later in the movie, extremely cringeworthy; but I understand it’s a callback to Leia kissing Luke in TESB)

You’re comparing two totally different things. No one is blaming Hollywood or straight people in general for not stopping Harvey Weinstein. They’re blaming the individual people who were closest to him, who knew about the abuse. What you’re doing is making two huge assumptions about these gay celebrities: 1) That they…

Lol this just adds to my theory that everyone who unironically gets picky about the difference between ephobophilia or w/e is a creep

Casting couches have always been around. I don’t play that game, nor do I care to.

Editorializes? This isn’t the Wall Street Journal. People come here for editorializing. If you don’t like The AV Club’s point-of-view on the world, then there are lots of other websites that may better suit your interests. Scouring every Katie Rife article for minor factual errors and jumping to the comment section to…

new york city itself is kind of the main character/serial sexual abuser.

The reason why women don’t talk about it is because it would literally be all we would fucking talk about. If we reported every transgression, stopped every meeting to call out some off-handed degrading comment, shouted every time someone laid their hands on us a little too pointedly on the bus or subway (but did they…

What? Most of the journalists I listed are women. Any woman can give a journalist a lead. It’s a much less painful and career-damaging way to get it out there. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a world where we always have control over the people around us. I wish things were different, but they won’t be until we use…

“Maybe if they kept their knees together...”

But in your original comment, you literally only gave two options? You said “if he was serious”, he could do one thing (start his own company from scratch) or another thing (quit the industry altogether). Otherwise, according to your original comment, this was just an empty PR move. That’s...pretty stark, no?

Haha, “no, I didn’t say his only options were to leave or start his own company, I said his only options were to leave or start his own company. VERY different, you just don’t appreciate my nuances!”

It’s updated because all of those famous women in Hollywood call attention to all of the OTHER numbers of women who also experienced the same harassment, victimization, and assault but who weren’t “lucky” enough to have the benefits of professional success and who probably had professional set backs as a results,…

I feel that essentially everything about this hinges on the angle they take, and even then it’s not clear cut.

This was a perfect response. In the whole Me Too wave yesterday, I thought the outpouring of shock and awe from many men on my Facebook was so disingenuous. If you’re counting cat calling and shit like that, just about every women in existence can say Me Too, and everyone’s all “I had no idea? How can I help?” You…

“There are no heroes here.”

He could’ve taken the same tack many others are and said, “I had no idea! This is terrible and shocking!” Instead, he says what should be said, and he (appropriately) calls himself out as well. I give someone a lot of props for acknowledging what he did wrong and why.

It’s pretty simple. If you found out someone liked to smash random car windows in parking lots for fun, most people wouldn’t look favorably or even indifferent to that action. But if a guy goes around playing grab ass, it isn’t a big deal. Hell, we’re already assuming in our heads whomever said the guy played grab ass…