Hell, I don't even feel safe being a pedestrian with my headphones in. I don't like cutting off ONE major source of input about what's going on in the world, let alone two.

You're probably right, but I feel like more things that shouldn't be up for debate are now, which is basically what I was getting at.

Fair. Become up for debate?

There are a lot of things I wish hadn't become political: the right to reproductive choice, the importance of accessible and affordable healthcare and housing for all, actual equality for all people, the fact that we need an actual world to live in and should therefore maybe take care of the Earth…yet here we all are.

Ah okay, thank you for clarifying exactly what part of it you were looking at. I do see what you're talking about now. I'll make a note to the mod chat to be careful about how we talk about these things. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

Hi there! I could be misreading it, but I just read through the linked exchange a couple of times and I think what Gooch meant was that Coogin and Buck were the two who engaged in repeated problematic behavior, while the third person engaged in criminal conduct: my guess is that is referring to…

But what are your feelings on a good ramble, a la Abe Simpson?

Well, I hope they didn't expect you to disappear to Mandyville!

I think this is a good summation of his issues writing women.

It's weird because he writes some great roles, but he also regularly has men condescend to women on the very same shows or plays the "ladies be concerned with stupid things, amiright?" game. He seems to have a problem with benevolent sexism: the "exceptional" women he writes get respect, but "those other women" do not.

Good point. Luckily The West Wing is the only thing of his I'm a big fan of.

Oh for sure, Patrick Stewart especially for me.

Same. I appear to be logged into my legacy account but I'm only seeing notifications from my Disqus account. Also, when I click the "show new comments" blue bar, other comments randomly disappear!

Are comments and Disqus in general acting really weird for anyone else right now or is Disqus just trying to silence me because I'm a woman?

Oh it definitely is. My dad has had similar moments and he's in his 70s.

I like you, so you get cookies for free.

I once had someone tell me I walk like I'm in The West Wing. I chose to take it as a compliment.

The key here being REAL awareness, not the very surface level stuff he's been known to do in the past.

I dunno, that woulda attracted me at the time.

Seriously. Even as a naive college girl, I knew that any guy who seriously played "Your Body is a Wonderland" was a guy no one should sleep with. Ever. It's a bad, bad song.