As Americans are wont to do, they are conflating having money with intelligence.

Also...nothing about Grimes screams “smart.”

“He really wants smart people to have kids...”

I know several people in this boat, and they’re all making me question why dating sims aren’t simply mainstream releases. People don’t need to wait for enormously expensive, once-in-a-generation games if what they really want are the romance options (and not the gigantic tactical RPG they’re attached to). That…

Kunis and Kutcher are only upset because the letter were released. Which they should have known would happen since anything filed with the court can be made public.

Right? He can't even be bothered to say anything nice about her while he has the chance to clear the air, AND he's kinda saying not only "don't believe rumors" but also "don't believe anything she says." This was actually worse than him saying nothing. 

If a family member or close friend was convicted for multiple rapes, I would personally lock the cell and throw the key in the sewer.

A failing of humanity writ large is overvaluing the personal/anecdotal evidence over mountains of evidence in the opposite direction. Unless you believe somebody was wrongly convicted, arguing for leniency on their behalf is more or less just saying “my experiences with that person weren’t where he raped anybody I…

You can stop being friends with someone if they cross an ethical line, and for me, “multiple proven rapes” definitely counts.

“He’s such a nice young man with a good future ahead of him. You should sentence him to 100 hours of public service and time served.” Sadly there isn’t a person reading this who doesn’t know of a case where this was the outcome and it’s enraging every single time.

It because of people like them that rape victims don’t go to the police.

Because, as a society, rapists get away with rape every single day. And part of that is because friends and family of the rapists say that they are good people and couldn’t have possibly done this...

“They were approached by Masterson’s family several months ago”

I think a lot of the support was largely sympathy for the unthinkable tragedy of the Sharon Tate murder. 

“We are extremely sorry to have thought that these letters would never become public.”

There’s a whiff of “Roman got caught for doing shit a whole lot of entertainment industry types were doing back then,” and since he ran - those who “support” him are more chagrinned and relieved that he took one for the team and just glad that they didn’t get caught. That’s a whiff anyway.

One thing about this: It was helpful to know that showing up for work on time is a feat worthy of mentioning in a rapist-but-nice-guy character reference letter.

I think it used to be considered established fact that great artists are necessarily tortured souls with a fuckton of character flaws. Whether it’s great art that exists in spite of the artist being a bad person, or great art that only exists because the artist is a bad person, the justification for their character is…

I’m glad you listened to and helped that woman.