Also, is the lawyer maintaining that Cosby didn’t even have *sex* with any of these women? Because I would think that even if the sex was consensual, he was at least as much of a slut and liar (to his wife) as any of these women.

What stuns me, reading the testimony that I can bring myself to read, is the number of people who worked hard to get these women raped. Cosby set up a fake modeling session for one of the women. He hired a fucking photographer, and all the other people involved in a photo shoot. They must have known. They must have…

Makes me wish I were Canadian.

I have a soft spot for vintage Harlequin cover art. It has changed through the years. My favorite era was the late 1960s and early 1970s obviously-painted covers. Either a woman looking tortured but chic or a woman turning her head away in virginal denial while having a sexy man wrapped around her like a coat.

“We don’t want to say there is anything wrong with being illiterate or having a learning disability. We just want the whole internet to be pointlessly cruel to an actress for some reason.” Yeah. It’s a delight.

That was my first thought, but a part of me feels like the key to appropriation is the power element. A dominant culture’s assumed right to go in, pick whatever part of another culture appeals to them without the okay of that culture, often make money off of it, and then move on.

Honest question: Chun li. Homage? Appropriation? Simply a character, like Snow White or Lara Croft, and acceptable for any race or ethnicity to dress up as?

I think it’s important, as well. “Masculinity” has been boxed in until it can only be something for the very lucky, the very immoral, or the very stupid. I hope men will be able to change the definition and make it better.

No it doesn’t read as that. It’s two sentences long. Liza never uses the word “worse.” It’s possible to feel bad for multiple people at once.

How could he possibly be an accomplice to a murder if, according to the law, there was no murder?

And it wasn’t just the 1980s. American Pie was released in 1999. A group of guys set up a webcam so they can watch a foreign exchange student changing clothes. They share the video of her engaging in sexual activity to everyone in the school (although the sharing is accidental). As a result she is kicked out of her…

“I believe in giving people second chances. Except if they have an abortion—then hang them.”

Yep, you got it. I think it would be a bad thing for serial rapists to be caught. Firmly on Team Serial Rapist, here.

I have an interest in true crime, but she had real dedication. I hope, somehow, her research helps lead to them catching or at least identifying the guy.

If you’ve read Michelle McNamara’s book, “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark,” about the Golden State Killer, it talks about how genetic services could technically be used as a way to track down serial murderers and rapists via family connections. They can’t do it now because the companies won’t cooperate and law enforcement…

I’m trying to think, too. I wonder if it’s something innocent like cross-dressing or being spanked. Trying to think of who would still be sold by Tiger Woods endorsing a product after everything that’s come out, and what would ruin their image of him.

I’d keep her away from the diplomats from Zambia.

That is one of the best explanations of hate and bullying that I’ve ever seen. The goal of a bully isn’t to stop something that someone is doing. That’s a political goal—it has a stated aim and its methods, whether they are appropriate or not, need to logically work to deter a specific action. The goal of bullying is…

I read about it before I saw it and rolled my eyes at what I read (the peach scene?), but when I saw it I was bowled over. You’re right that it was very much a “sit back and let it sink in” atmospheric story, rather than a character or plot driven one. Usually I hate those kinds of films but this one worked for me.…

And how would it even work? If a character has a one time affair with a person of the same sex, would you screen all the actors for people who only had a one time affair with a member of the same sex?