You’re a good person with a soul so you assume that everyone else also has one and can feel things like guilt and regret. That was your first mistake.

I want to ask neontaster, who generally enjoys dystopian fiction but hates sociopolitical intrusion, if there has ever actually been any work of dystopian fiction ever that wasn’t a sociopolitical commentary.

Or not familiar with our history, or the history of other nations.

I binged the first three episodes yesterday morning and I now regret it because it was so good I want to be able to savor it and drag it out until the next episode is released.

I really hate the “it’s TOOO topical” point of view. When was it written? It still applies? Then it’s not TOO topical. That means we haven’t really progressed. I’d argue we’ve regressed.

I watched with my husband, and at the end, I asked him what he thought and it did not go well. I can’t remember the exact words—all I remember is static?—but at one point he accused me of trying to “educate him” and said it felt “unrealistic.”

I was legitimately worried that this was going to be another OITNB thing where men complained about the lack of focus on men in a story by women about women in a women’s prison.

I was never close to my maternal grandfather, but I never thought he was anything but a boring old man. When the “family secrets” started to surface, I found out just how fucked-up he was. Makes me glad I was never close to him, because I didn’t have to deal with trying to reconcile the two aspects of one person. It…

I was married to someone who had this skill. It exists. It’s absolutely devastating to have someone you love become a monster overnight and your brain and your heart does everything it can to explain it away. There’s also a huge amount of shame on the part of the person who has been “tricked”. How could I not have…

Yeah, he sounds like a great dad...

It was a different daughter (Erinn), but clearly he’s pretty damn far from being even a halfway decent father. And pretty fucked up that Evin is ok with him treating her sister like that.

What about the stuff he’s admitted to in old depositions? How does she reconcile that with her innocent papa?

I can’t get Google to load...is she the one who was into drugs in the...80s or so? There was a rumor (verified? I don’t know) that National Enquirer was going to run a big story on Cosby’s rape habit (shudder), but in exchange for dropping it he gave them all the sordid details about his daughter’s drug problem and…

“What’s so strange about it?”

Agreed. What do you expect from his family? There’s a reason they don’t allow jury members to have personal connections to the defendant. You can’t judge a family member objectively in a case like this.

Oh honey, just ‘cause he’s nice to you and nice to people when you’re around doesn’t mean he’s incapable of horrible acts.

If I had a dollar for every dude that defended disgusting behavior around women with “but I love and respect women!”

Hey now, clearly the case is “he said/ she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said, she said,…

You know what? She can believe whatever she wants to believe. Maybe that makes her feel better about her dad being a waste of air.

Come on, if one person says you’re a bad guy, we’ll take it with a grain of salt. When 50 people come forward with pretty much the same story about how you suck as a human being, it would be silly to not listen to that.