Then he just asks, “Are you sure you want to do that?” condescendingly and I start to weep internally for my lost youth and beauty while I plan to up the server’s tip by another 5% because Mr. ‘I asked for malt vinegar’ left his glasses at home and I'm paying the bill.

Slow down cowboy. What the poster said was "watch how your date interacts with others", not "throw away your money".

I personally enjoyed the fact that he sees zero correlation between his “pioneering” of an area and it’s subsequent gentrification.

But women don’t need my permission to take what is rightfully theirs after all these years

I’m certain he’s joking. I think it’s meant to be a sort of self-deprecation, a joke at himself and the whole idea of celebrity soap-boxing - the kind of joke any of us might make and think, “This joke is fine because surely nobody could possibly take it at face-value”. And yet, this comment thread.

I actually respect this sentiment very much, and do agree with it to a great extent. This has been something I felt since being a little girl and felt unable to articulate it properly. He sounds a bit childish for saying that too, but translate it into an academic talk:

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I also run in an overlapping social circle and met him a couple times. He seems absolutely genuine and normal, albeit a bit of a dork. It totally bums me out when I see people post uninformed criticism of him.

Emphasis mine:

He is a caricature, obviously.

God, what an asshole. He means he “pioneered” Williamsburg because he was one of the first waves of annoying, entitled, rich white fuckers to move in and push the Black and Hispanics already living there aside. And he couldn’t afford it anymore while being a millionaire? Fuck him. I had no idea he was so insufferable.

“We consume 500 million straws each day. The equivalent of 127 school buses filled with straws. It’s disgusting, ” Adrian Grenier declares the minute I sit down, brandishing a plastic straw that the waiter had forgotten to remove. “There should be children in those school buses, going to school, to learn, not straws,”…

I observe that the city has changed a lot. “I pioneered Williamsburg,” says Grenier. “It got so gentrified that I had to come to Bushwick. I lived two blocks away, and then this place opened, and I couldn’t afford to live in this neighborhood,” he says, gesturing around Roberta’s, which opened in 2008. “We used to…

As an Irish woman in Ireland, 90% of the stuff Americans do in the name of ‘being Irish’ is ???, but not at all offensive. It’s simply too far removed to be appropriation. (Just to add, this is obviously completely different from people appropriating cultures of minorities, which is dumb and gross).

It’s more complicated than that. In many, many cases, the victims are under *intense* pressure from their communities not to testify or acknowledge their own abuse. Take our rape culture and ramp it up to 10; remove education, resources, and sometimes things as basic as a birth certificate (and try moving somewhere…

And they all love his hair. Barf.

once one of his wives used the hypothetical example of her having more than one husband and he was repulsed by the thought.

I can’t believe THAT guy got FOUR women to fall in love with, and want to spend their lives with him. He looks like he's literally pained when he thinks.

Yeah, as long as everybody’s cool with it and nobody’s being exploited I could not give less of a fuck about how many people wanna get hitched up. Not my thing personally, but whatever.

Maybe I’m missing something here, but what the fuck does keeping polygamy illegal do to prevent under age marriage and sexual assault? If marriage is illegal under a certain age, and sexual assault is always going to be illegal (well, on paper anyway, we all know how sexual assault is treated currently, during our…