Lynch mob? Go fuck yourself. Polanski is a fugitive from justice who should serve the prison sentence he was given by the court. Fuck you.

It’s sickening to know that this has been going on for so long and people still can’t quite care. Our society really doesn’t value black girls. He even tried it with Aaliyah and still people did not care enough to shun him or boycott him! I hope #MuteRKelly helps.

Just to give DeRogatis credit - he’s been chasing this story for 18 years now. He got an anonymous fax after he reviewed R. Kelly’s album from 2000, made some phone calls, and realized how serious this story was. And it’s gotten worse over the years - it started with him targeting 14 year-olds for sex to this…

Plenty of people survived the Holocaust and didn’t go on to rape children.

More women than men have PTSD, and we don’t go around raping people because of it. Mostly we take it out on ourselves.

“What? I’m out? But I thought the doctrine of Boys Will Be Boys was infallible and iron-clad!”

Polanski: I don’t even have a Costco membership!

Usually rapist tend to think they didn’t rape.

If Mr Polanski wants to be reinstated, he should be able to be reinstated. Provided that he submit written justification for reinstatement in person to the Academy’s offices in California.

When I read the announcement that he’d be kicked out I thought it was too little too late, but the knowledge that this bullshit “punishment” actually upsets him to the point of consulting with a legal team gives me great pleasure. Is there anything else he can be kicked out of? A frequent flyer mile program? A…

Right?! I’m so sick of his boohoo poor me routine- you’re super rich and living in fucking Paris!! STFU and enjoy life you asshole!

I mean he won his last Oscar in 2002. Over two decades after he plead guilty to statutory rape. So... it’s understandable that he’s confused about the Academy thinking that’s an issue.

He was blindsided because he never thought in a million years the Academy would have kicked him out... and they wouldn’t have either, but then they had to kick out Bill Cosby and didn’t want to look like fucking hypocrites.

Bobby Finger ando Rich are strangely dismissive of Griffin and, her whole experience stemming from the backlash. Is it some sort of resentment? This was rather recent, therefore the backlash and all it entailed is still pretty vivid and FUCK yeah it was pretty scary I do not blame Griffin one bit for her initial…

I agree that this is what she’s saying: that we’ve designed a society to make money off the misery and stress of the lower class by offering them a cheap, easy, and deadly way, often the only way, to claim even five minutes for themselves. Then we shame them for it and tell them their deaths are their own fault.

Having read “Brightsided” and “Nickel and Dimed,” I think her broader point is less “go ahead, smoke!” and more “don’t be shitty to people who might need a cigarette to get through another miserable day of drudgery.” There’s a lot of social shaming attached to cigarette smoking. If it helps people choose not to smoke…

To be fair, she doesn’t really sell it as necessary:

I think as a society we have some very fearful and weird ideas about death. I like to say that the only thing 100% guaranteed in life is that you will die. But despite that fact, Americans treat death like a taboo subject.

If you read the article she talks a lot about how she exercises quite a bit, because she is trying to stay healthy. She’s not saying she’s giving up, or that she’s no longer getting any kind of medical treatment. If she feels ill, she’s still going to the doctor and potentially getting treatment. She’s also not…

I think it’s important to acknowledge, though, that her decision about preventative care was made in the context of her being 76 years old. It seems ludicrous to her to continue with mammograms at her age, based on the cost benefit analysis of the likelihood of cancer and the hard truths about treatment. I didn’t see…