Lady Gaga did a song with the rapist R. Kelly in which she sings “Do what you want with my body” and you’re angry that Bradley Cooper didn’t properly vet a harasser whose name was required by contract to appear on screen even as he didn’t appear for a day on set? What a weird, weird world you live in.

I see Jez is still on its “banging 17 year olds is horrendous and criminal if it’s Asia Argento but beautiful and tender and wonderful if it’s in a queer movie” game.

I cannot imagine what makes you think this is a racial thing and not a gender thing. 

I guess in the current era it’s worth mentioning that they were people she worked with. The 35 year old woman was her boss. My ex was 17.

This is right on the edge of high school.

Also someone f*cked a fish.

I know when I want to understand the state of modern hip hop, I turn to a guy named Clayton Purdom.

I’m sorry for multiple posts.

Well said! 

Here’s the one big question I have about everyone’s reaction to the Asia story: Most of America (and most of the world) has a lower age of consent than 18. Since people seem to agree that Asia indeed did something that should be criminally wrong - is the new progressive position that the age of consent should…

It’s not on the sex workers at all, but that’s the point. No reasonable person would read, “It was a dark time in my life when I cheated on my spouse with JANE DOE” and think “oh wow she really dumped on Jane Doe there”. We would all immediately recognize the obvious fact that the ‘dark time’ thoughts were about where…

Not that Tracy will read this, but just how weird is it that this whole article is, “I hear you, Lily, that you went through something in your life, but it would be great if you could just invent a different narrative that doesn’t reflect how you actually felt so that the narrative would be more helpful to progressive…

So now we’re angry that someone views cheating on their spouse as a dark period? Like...that shouldn’t be dark because she was fucking a class of people who are marginalized? That’s pretty weird, man.

Yikes. I’m doing it again.

Oh. And I guess...

Again, why are you conflating? “The Chinese government” has nothing to do with Singapore. The word “Chinese” can either refer to a racial group (in which case it generally means ‘Han’, though if you take the regressive CCP understanding, it means any of hte ‘official’ 56 ethnicities of mainland China) or a national…

I am sorry for multiple replies, by the way. I know that’s annoying - my bad - but I just noticed something.

Did you, by the way, read the vox story by an activist in Singapore? I can send you more if you’d like - I live in east Asia (though no longer in Sing). It is not seen as a progressive depiction over here. The movie actually isn’t even being shown in most theaters - it’s a very American story, not a real attempt at…

You keep saying ‘Asian’. My point is that Singapore isn’t that Chinese, not that it isn’t that Asian. I lived there. Singapore is full of Indian, Malay, Indonesian, etc. populations. It is a very diverse place. Why are you insisting on collapsing a continent with more than a third of the world’s populations into one…

Okay. But it’s the only reason she’s famous. It’s like if Einstein were being interviewed and they asked about general relativity and he said “oh for f*ck’s sake...” and stormed off. General relativity is to Einstein as giving a beej in the Oval Office is to Lewinsky. That’s why anyone knows her name.