“Get the minority vote out, ALWAYS, because they are not single-issue voters.”

The people in my life who are the most active Resistance fighters are all middle aged white women who are horrified by the man and shocked at where our country is sinking to. This includes many relatives who were never very political who had an awakening after Trump was elected. And yes, also lots and lots of people…

They don’t as a whole vote solidly republican. a little over half of those who vote vote solidly republican. The other 49% vote solidly democrat.

I don’t think the women voting for Roy Moore and Donald Trump are the same women who label themselves feminists. I think they are the type of women who scoff at the idea of feminism, and didn’t vote for Hillary because they didn’t think a woman could do a good job as president.

It’s almost like you are saying it is wrong to make sweeping generalizations about a person based on their ethnicity.

also, the volume of the band was so loud it could cause permanent hearing damage to those close to speakers. Also, it was quite hot and sweaty in the club, so several concert-goers risked dehydration. Finally, the bar was doing large pours, so multiple people had hangovers the next day which impacted their ability to…

Louis CK is a perv who put several women in really unpleasant situations because of his perversion. He’s also a brilliant comedian who has made really great art that in part deals with his myriad of failings as a human being. For me, provided he keeps his dick in his pants, I have no problem with continuing to support…

Related question: is the “twink” designation as creepy as it seems to me, a straight old man? Is it the gay equivalent of “barely legal,” or the “teen” category of porn, i.e. totally icky and catering to men who really just want to have sex with underage people?

Feeding booze to a woman, especially in the form of shots/beer bongs, etc., to get her to have sex with you is a low, awful thing to do.

So, technically if a person is intoxicated they can’t give consent. That is totally easy to understand when the person is wobbly and not with it. Clearly, 100000000% wrong. what’s tricky is that, at least in the situations I’ve experienced, really intoxicated people are often rearing to go. I’ve seen multiple people…

She’s also ignoring that the standard MO among Weinstein and others was to change meetings scheduled for non-creeper places to their hotel rooms at the last minute, and most of the harassment and assault happened during work meetings. They should know better than to take a business meeting with one of the most…

Point taken. In my brain, the veritas allegation goes in the “deliberately vindictive and made for political gain” bucket, which is it’s own separate thing, but still a potential issue.but it still happened, so is still a thing.

For me, I’m wary of situations where the people don’t make any sort of ‘official’ complaint, or do it anonymously, or do it through social media, or where there is obvious political or economic gain to be had in making the accusation. Although having typed that, most of the recent complaints that were never ‘official’…

I think it is reasonable at socially awkward events to allow enough alcohol to make it easier for people to socialize, but not so much that they do or say anything they might later regret. Two drink tickets with a cash bar after that is a reasonable compromise. You can also enforce a zero tolerance policy towards…

Yeah, it’s not just dudes who get handsy when they’ve had a few. I’ve had to fight off the aggressive advances from more than one drunk lady. Alcohol lowers inhibitions and makes bad ideas suddenly seem totally reasonable.

This also belies the whole idea that hiring more women will magically end this shit. There are many high powered women who enabled this kind of behavior.

But isn’t that the gist of the “trust women” mantra? That women don’t lie, so ergo if a woman accuses someone she is telling the truth? Or is it meant to mean that we should lean towards trusting a woman rather than assuming she’s lying? I’m pro the latter, the former not as much.

Everyone keeps repeating the statistic that less than 2% of rape allegations are false, but we’ve changed the parameters of what constitutes a rape allegation while still hanging on to that 2% statistic. Surely that percentage will go up if all it takes to nuke someone’s career is to make an anonymous accusation, or…

I guess my point is that that 2% figure is based on variables that are changing. It’s based on people who have gone through all the legal hoops of accusing someone of rape or assault, despite the fact that it is an invasive, traumatic, demeaning experience that is unlikely to have a positive outcome.

Well, as the project veritas/roy moore debacle proved, some of them ARE fake. I think it is important to keep in mind that a, most of the allegations that led to people being fired were investigated by credible news sources b, a lot of this harassment was reported at the time, and HR departments did nothing and c, the…