I wonder how they’d react if their employers suddenly had the power of a court and the ability to put them on trial.

I know, right? Does anyone thing MPR wanted to fire its most popular and famous star? Does anyone thing they were waiting for some woman to talk about how she felt not-so-great about that one time he touched her back and dumped all the stuff from his desk on the curb in a cardboard box and then sat back and cackled,…

Ah, sorry. Not my intention. I more meant, he enjoyed emotional intimacy, support, fun flirting, and deep emotional connections primarily with men, but then having sex with women.

Does anyone else get the impression that “gay up until the point of intercourse” means, “I hate women, but goddamnit, I want to have sex with women”? 

Here’s a quote from the forward of the latest edition of the Female Eunuch (which, by the way, talks about all the lies women are sold about passive “romance” in which a woman is swept off her feet and kept by a powerful man instead of following her own wants and desires): “The freedom I pleaded for twenty years ago…

I know, right? The President almost certainly cheated on his wife with a porn star about four months after his wife gave birth. Does America care? Nope.

cross to *bear*

I like the utterly cynical, insincere moves best, because it lets me know that this will take. It’s like when international corporations champion gay rights. Someone with only their own interest at stake deciding to back your side means they think you’re going to win.

Kids have been coached to give stories of sexual or physical abuse—see the Satanic Panic—but rarely against guys who subsequently go on to marry a girl they helped raise.

She’s not criticizing Faye Dunaway, for crying out loud! She’s doing the opposite, saying that Dunaway was massively undervalued and that she should have been making huge amounts of money from her critically and commercially successful ventures.

I guess it’s time to go pal around with Polanski in France, Woody.

I don’t think anyone’s calling her a hypocrite or even mad at her, It’s just an odd statement to make considering her films. Perhaps they cut down her statement and she had something to say about the way rape was used as a substitute for character or backstory.

Also, in Anna Karenina she clearly doesn’t want to have sex with her husband but feels unable to say anything about it. It wouldn’t read to anyone except modern day audiences as rape, but there’s a huge scene of them talking and her shrinking back in the bed as he takes out a disgusting reusable period-appropriate…

I think that’s true. Most people naturally communicate nonverbally—including couples—and that’s just fine. I just think it’s not okay to say that one partner can keep asking, or pushing, nonverbally, but doesn’t have to take the other partner’s nonverbal no. And in interpreting this story, most people seem to be…

It can be taken as “but the other stuff we did is fine,” but only if you decide to take it as “other stuff we did is fine.” Why isn’t it his responsibility to ask “What would you be comfortable with?” Why do women have to say no, and say no so clearly and completely that their response could have been drafted by a…

You can, and people do. The problem is when we decide that you can push for sex with nonverbal cues, and then refuse to stop unless you get clear, unambiguous, words of refusal. What’s more, the refusal has to cover all possible acts and set a specific time period because if it doesn’t you can just try different sex…

They don’t have to guess. They can ask. Why is it women’s responsibility to tell men but not men’s responsibility to ask? Isn’t it any person’s responsibility to keep from sexually assaulting other people?

Okay, but non-verbal cues aren’t just what the receiver of sexual action gives. Leaning in for a kiss is a nonverbal cue. Taking off your clothes is a nonverbal cue. Grabbing someone’s head or body is a nonverbal cue. Do away with nonverbal cues doesn’t just mean that one partner has to say “no,” it means the other…

A lot of royalty is from Germany (at least partly). The German states were pretty much stud farms for the upper crust.

Feeling lonely were you? Needed to have more of a chat?