Something I haven’t seen brought up yet re: face unlock replacing thumbprint scanning is how it takes away your ability to subtly unlock your phone. If you have to hold it up and point it at your face to unlock it - or even pull your focus for long enough to accurately type in your passcode - there is no longer any…

A grand’s worth of stuff you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.

I was in Yellowstone for a week with no phone service and no internet. It was glorious.

Off topic but over the weekend my fairly new phone went completely kaput when I took it off the charger. Said 100% and then boom, no power, no nothing. Dead like a doorstop. I am attempting to get it fixed but I am so irritated that I’ve just gone without a phone for the last 3 days I must tell you IT IS GLORIOUS. It…

‘Women comics’ here is acting as a proper noun. As in Specific Women (who work as comics). ‘Female comics’ would be general, as in ‘all female comics’. Jezebel was trying to be specific dammit.

Doug Stanhope is a drunken trainwreck who lies a great deal and really doesn’t like women that much, unless they’re more damaged than he is. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I can throw him. He’s ‘being a bro’ and attempting to take the heat for CK because he thinks the women saying this should, as usual, shut up. It’s…

What he’s accused of is whipping out his dick and masturbating in front of multiple women and the women making these allegations work in comedy, so what would they have to gain career-wise by making it up? They’re clearly terrified to come forward publicly because of the power he has in that world. It’s just hard for…

In this context, “woman” acts as an attributive noun. It’s perfectly acceptable usage.

Nouns can be used to modify other nouns. These are referred to as noun adjuncts (aka, attributive nouns). Garner’s Modern American Usage even cites “woman president” as acceptable.

“Impact” was only a noun right up until it was a verb, and “flammable” and “inflammable” were antonyms until they were synonyms.

Well yes woman/women can be used as an adjective.

You’re getting swept up in his feminism. All of the positive things he’s done for women are blinding you to the real issue here: old, straight, white man. (And, before all of you haters bring up his Mexican heritage, racism doesn’t have to make sense. Thx.)

Jen Kirkman has never recanted what she said about him.

You’re incorrect on both counts.

It started with people noticing how frequently MRA-types used the adjective when the noun was required (“I get along fine with females!”) and snowballed from there. It went so far over-the-top that many people reflexively cringe at any usage of “female” and increasingly people are incorrectly using the noun lest they…

Nouns can be used pretty freely as modifiers in noun phrase structure in English, as virtually anyone with even a passing knowledge of English grammar knows.

“Women” and “female” are both grammatical here, and you likely have a confused understanding of “previous”/”prior” as well since they are usually interchangeable.

Interesting. Somewhat related, do we know he wasn’t joking in the tweet?

Referring to women as female places our gender first and our humanity second - that is if our humanity getting any consideration at all. It’s a fairly nuanced dogwhistle most commonly used by men to degrade and dehumanize. So while it may be grammatically clunky to use women instead of female, it’s the correct usage.

The woman who first told the story as a blind item has said it was not Louis CK. Another comic, Doug Stanhope, came forward and said it was him, not Louis CK. So why is he still being tarred with this brush? I’m sure he’s not without faults, but it’s been pretty much verified that this isn’t one of them.