Thanks. Sometimes the false moral equivalencies just get too much.

Since when does Trump need fodder to call out “the media”? I especially like how we pretend it’s the whole media, too. The people who can’t tell the difference between a Daily Show comedian and the NYT are the people who believe the news is “biast” for not agreeing that Trump’s inauguration crowd was bigger than…

That was brilliant.

Wolf’s point is that she behaves like Aunt Lydia, not that she looks like her. Aunt Lydia is the one who gets up in front of a crowd every episode and puts a spin on the regime’s horrible tactics.

Also, I understand why they only went after women to get statements of support, by that pretty much means that women have to act as a human shield for Brokaw and men don’t.

Man, perp-walked and guillotined? Yeah, Tom, you are really making me believe you know the difference between fantasy and reality.

As a woman, I fully endorse the conversation around abuse of power. In the context of that conversation, I would like to share my perspective on Joseph James DeAngelo.

Oh, I know I can’t convince them. They’re down the rabbit hole. I just want neutral observers to come to realize that an incel isn’t a sad guy who has had bad luck in the dating pool. An incel is a hate-filled bile machine who thinks the government should assign him a woman to rape as his leisure and fantasizes about…

Feel free!

I keep trying to refine my definition, but what do you think of, “Incels are a group of men dedicated to proving that women are right not to want them.” I was thinking of just “a group of men dedicated to proving women right.” It’s succinct and snappy. People who go to incel discussions will realize what they are…

Again, Incels are a community of men whose goal is to prove that women are right to refuse to sleep with them. That’s all they are, just a big group of men proving, over and over, that they are not worthy of love or desire.

Incels: A Group of Men Coming Together To Prove Women Right

You can be sad and fine at the same time. You can be sad and not fine but on your way to fine, or at least moving farther in time every day from a situation in which you could never be “fine.” Focus on the small victories, even if they don’t bring you immediate happiness. You have taken a step towards removing one bad…

Time to give yourself a lecture about swearing, Bill.

I remember an advice columnist telling a letter writer to break up with her terrible, terrible boyfriend and then saying, “It’s easy for me to say. I don’t love him.”

If this happens, I will goddamn dedicate myself to financially and socially punishing anyone who has anything to do with it.

You’re right, of course. Happy and powerful women=fantasy fluff for chicks. Tortured and degraded women=prestige drama.

I think you’re right about that. They probably felt the need to make it seem like the whole country was caught in the grips of a panic, which is why people went along with something so extreme. The creators were smarter with the character of Nick, a down on his luck who goes along because he personally gets benefits…

Exactly. The series is falling down in a major way trading torture porn for basic plausibility. They can show that the leaders are hypocrites—they did that with the brothel scene—while also showing that they are smart enough to care about the handmaid’s health and give the handmaids incentives to cooperate instead of…

While I agree it’s a pretense, the series makes it clear that it’s a huge problem. June’s baby was the only baby in an entire hospital. A Mexican city the size of Boston didn’t have a single birth for six years. That’s a world-ender, considering there’s no guarantee the next generation will have a higher fertility…