So we both agree it was a joke, not a literal question about whether or not he was underage. Great.

Yeah, there are ways of saying, “That’s not as cute as she thinks it is,” or “I don’t like her tone,” without invoking child predators or pretending she’s actually interested in preying on an underage boy.

Yeah, there are ways of saying, “That’s not as cute as she thinks it is,” or “I don’t like her tone,” without invoking child predators or pretending she’s actually interested in preying on an underage boy.

I’m not saying anyone has to find it funny or benign. I’m just saying that we can’t pretend she was actually asking whether or not he was underage. That’s like pretending, “Take my mother-in-law. Please!” is an incitement to kidnapping.

Again, you can feel however you want about it. But it’s not “joke or not.” It’s “joke.”

She is clearly sure he’s over 18. Come on. You don’t have to think a joke is funny, but it’s weird to pretend you don’t know it’s a joke.

I went the other way. I have no grudge against the guy but that photo looks like a joke he’s not in on.

Nope, not over the top. Either it’s the fakest thing ever or it’s a disgustingly immoral premise and he should be in prison.

“Women on average look for more work-life balance while men have a higher drive for status on average”

He could also be saying that Soloway refused to talk to him “directly.” In other words, she sent an HR rep. Or she talked to his manager or agent. The statement is ambiguous enough to give people the wrong impression while not being incorrect enough to get him sued.

He’s lying. Or he’s stretching the truth enough that it’s a lie. Technically he didn’t say no one talked to him. He mentioned Jill Soloway and said, “In our four-year history of working together on this incredible show, these accusations have NEVER been revealed or discussed directly with me or anyone at Amazon.” That…

I think it sounds like a disastrous move for her personal life but I’m looking forward to the material the resulting complications will bring.

What does “being tried outside the courts” even mean? People keep saying it, and all it seems to amount to is, “People are talking about the story and no longer seem interested in consuming the work of the artist involved.”

I’ll do it for you. Can’t wait to see how Bristol Palin’s third try at abstinence works out!

I can believe it. There’s a brilliant essay by Cintra Wilson about Wildenstein and Michael Jackson and Courtney Love and the cult of plastic surgery. Pull quote: “Neither Courtney’s nor Jocelyn’s nor Michael’s ugliness was skin deep — it was much deeper. None of them were actually “ugly” before the surgeries, but now,…

1. He definitely didn’t rape “that girl.” I say this not because I don’t believe her, but because even in the latest interview, she said what he did and did not do to her and it wasn’t rape.

1. He definitely didn’t rape “that girl.” I say this not because I don’t believe her, but because even in the latest interview, she said what he did and did not do to her and it wasn’t rape.

1. He definitely didn’t rape “that girl.” I say this not because I don’t believe her, but because even in the latest interview, she said what he did and did not do to her and it wasn’t rape.

I agree. It’s a shame that eroticism, especially for women, is so ill-thought-of right now. Actors and writers and directors will hold their heads high as they do movies in which characters say stupid lines and shoot each other to death but sexual fantasy? For women? Ugh! If we had twenty films a year that catered to…

So for you, the loss of artistic prestige and social connections is the way to “truly pay” for his crimes? I’m asking, because other people might simply say the way to pay is making reparations to Dylan—in whatever way she might want. Or donating the proceeds of his successful films to victims’ rights charities.