Really? So if a woman you worked with told you this had happened to her, you’d just shrug and say, “Hey, who can really know? I mean, you’re my colleague, I’ve known you for years, but you’re a woman, so why would I have any faith in you?”

You know, I have to agree with Stout here. If he had allowed Bergeron to make the edits she wanted, it would have killed Arnold’s authentic communication. Unfortunately, what he was authentically communicating was his total lack of concern for the women Holtzclaw raped.

This supports the claim that there’s a problem in L.A., which I don’t doubt. It doesn’t say anything about whether there are problems elsewhere as well. If anything, at least in L.A. there are enough other women willing to support each other that the problem is now out in the open. Because it’s not being talked about…

Is there some reason to believe it’s not the norm in comedy pretty much everywhere? I’d be happy to hear that, but pretty surprised.

Followed by a bear with a laptop.

Thank you for speaking out about your decision, one that is and must be yours and yours alone to make.

Since they were called there to try to prevent this person from coming to harm, rather than to prevent their harming anyone else, why the hell couldn’t they simply have backed off, or even left? This is some “we had to destroy the village in order to save it” bullshit.

How did I not see that? Dur. Sorry, carry on.

I can’t imagine how you’re reading this the way you are. The comment is clearly directed at the murderer, not the victim.

Do people’s phone settings have anything to do with whether someone can send them dick pics via DMs on Twitter? I wouldn’t have thought so, but otherwise I don’t understand why you’re bringing them up, so maybe there’s something I’m missing.

This is exactly what’s insidious about this: my reaction to reading your comment was first, “Cool, nice that she enjoys the game so much,” but that was immediately followed by, “Oh, I wonder if they’re paying people to make positive Internet comments, too.” (I don’t really think you’re a shill, though.)

The kinkajou, often referred to as the Robert Downey, Jr. of exotic animals.

I agree with you that anyone who orders food delivered in bad weather and doesn’t throw a small Mardi Gras for the driver upon their arrival is an asshole. This is only defensible if the tip is going to be epic.

Not merely is it okay, if the restaurant is already making the poor bastard work in the snow, then you have an opportunity to do a massive mitzvah. You can be the customer who makes their day much less sucky, by giving them the humungous tip they deserve, telling them how grateful you are for what they’re doing, and…

As I said elsewhere, it’s not so much the joke, it’s the delivery, but finally, who knows. It’s often difficult to know whether two people came up with a substantially similar joke independently, or one of them stole it from the other, or one person unconsciously lifted the joke, having heard it before without…

It’s the delivery. I knew Wendy’s act pretty much by heart 25 years ago, when I was spending all my time in the same comedy clubs, and I was pretty surprised by the Schumer version. I’m not claiming Schumer deliberately stole the joke, but it’s a little close for comfort. However, knowing Wendy, she never intended any…

And Wendy wrote it in the late 80s.

A lot of people are sociopathic to some degree. They don’t have much or perhaps any empathy for anyone else, while they do enjoy having power.

Because for this guy, and many others, what specifically excites them is forcing someone to have sex with them against their will. It’s for this writer to decide whether whether she wants to consider this incident rape, but there is no doubt in my mind that this man is a rapist, and that this was not the first or the…

Because I am really and truly old, whenever I see her, all I can see is her mother. Peggy Lipton is who I wanted to be when I was 10.