I for one am done giving people a pass for shitty stuff just cuz they did it a long time ago. I managed to get through college without applying a claw hammer to someone’s nuts. It’s a low bar.

I eagerly await the headline, “Jared Leto in a Coma Following Savage Beating Outside Missouri Truck Stop.”

“Brotherhood” always seems to involve a lot of heavy homoerotic kink. Leading your slave around with a clawhammer hooked under his balls, eh? And these are the future captains of industry, oh, and did they mention they donated $500 to charity? Seems a lot more like the Folsom Street Fair to me.

The more I learn about the actors in Mad Men, the more I’m convinced that everyone was pretty much just cast as an extreme version of themselves.

I don’t give a damn if this dude is conventionally attractive. He has a creep factor that comes through loud and clear in everything I’ve seen him in. Pass.

Yeah, it’s really a bummer... jezus fucking christ. What an asshole.

Future alcoholic does shitty stuff in a (likely) alcohol-soaked situation, lacks ability to fully own culpability when questioned about it. News at 11.

Good Lord. You must have written over 5,000 increasingly unhinged words on how much you hate this woman.
Are you one of Anthony Bourdain’s ex-girlfriends or something?

Get thee to a therapist.

French people tend to give the impression that the root and mother of all evil deeds is causing a fuss and talking about anything that makes people uncomfortable. Far moreso than you know, rape.

...so you believe she was assaulted by Weinstein, but you just don’t like her as a person? Because that’s what it sounds like you’re saying. You do realize you don’t have to like sexual assault victims, or personally approve of how they handled themselves after their assault, to believe and support their stories,…

I can’t really add anything to this (completely correct) comment so I’ll just give it a star :-)

Because VAGINA. All women have VAGINAS and are basically walking VAGINAS and all men hate VAGINA but also desire VAGINA and anything featuring VAGINA is automatically feminist because womanhood = VAGINA. There, now no one has to ever watch a Catherine Breillat movie.

Oh god, “Fat Girl” was awful. I can’t imagine a male director “discovering” a random 13 year old girl in a McDonald’s, having her do explicit nudity and rape scenes for an art film and getting praised for it.

I had to watch Breillat’s movies for a film class and was unimpressed. I remember thinking that only in a…

And much of the post structuralist and deconstructionist thinking that supports that intellectual repution is intentionally obscuritanist twaddle, as if unintelligibility implies depth.

Its such a lefty French filmmaker insult. Excuse the fuck out of me for needing money for my labor.

Steadfastly and stubbornly refusing to let go of the past is basically France’s national pastime.

Breillat is the Cool Girl of French cinema. I sincerely hope to see less of her type of male-gaze-friendly films from the next generation of women directors.

I have lost interest in Breillat defense of herself after her comments on what women should expect when they go to a hotel room. If she doesn’t care about the exploitive culture that forces women into these situations, then I don’t really care when she feels victimized by something much less serious.

Breillat sounds awful. And yes it seems like the French are having the hardest time with moving into the 21st century when it comes to gender and harassment issues. I usually like the French but they need to grow the fuck up in this area.