Please Jeebus, don’t have Stephen Hawking turn out to be a child molester. What’s next: Tom Hanks? Betty White?

Sexual abusers are overwhelmingly male.

I’m not sure why the phrase “banal racist and I loathe him” made me laugh, but I just picture you on a fainting couch languidly gesturing with a cigarette, and the rest of your salon murmuring, “Yes, yes, he’s SO jejune!”

Three are correct. Three are definitely problematic but I’ve personally never heard of them being serial predators. It wouldn’t shock me if news came out that it was more than just a few incidents ages ago though.

This type of abuse is de rigueur in Hollywood. I was an executive assistant to a female manager that was on her way up over ten years ago and she was a horrible verbal abuser. She had been abused by her family and the people that she worked for before she became someone and truly saw the abuse that she doled out as…

My $ is on Bryan Singer for the “BS”. I immediately went to Michael Bay for “MB”.

Olivia Munn was dragged through the mud because of this asshole not just in the media but specifically in Hollywood. He made it so that studio assholes thought that she was immediately up for grabs at parties and auditions, meanwhile, always victim-blaming gossip rags started describing her as a casting couch darling…

Ha, that’s a bit niche, but here:

I did Nano a few times and succeeded once. This year a few of my fellow writers knew we couldn’t come close to meeting the goal so we are cheating and splitting the word count between us. Each week we have a different subject to write about. When we are done we should have an anthology for each of us to critique and…

Sadly, I’m not doing it this year, but i think the best strategy I had in the previous several years I’ve won (4 years, 4 wins!) has been using a Pomodoro timer—25 minutes of focus, 5 minutes resting, etc.

My plan is to actually follow through. I have many starts and ideas, as well as outlines, and I just focus on too much so I never get any one thing done. This year I need to actually produce something and self-publish.

I’ve meant to do NaNoWriMo for years and never did. This seems like the perfect year to at least give it an actual effort. Just the other day I was without even considering November was coming thinking about turning a tv miniseries idea I had (I’m an on/off member of a script writing forum though I never finished much…

I feel bad because my first reaction to this was “what woman hasn’t dealt with that?”. It’s so normal. I feel bad because it’s so commonplace but also because I was so accustomed to sexual assault as a younger woman. So accustomed that if it didn’t happen I thought something was wrong with ME. I thought I knew how…

As my mama used to say, ‘ that’s a long way to drive to find out the store is closed’.

Naw, he’s a pedophile. This same thread knew about Anthony Rapp (by name) three years ahead of this past week’s news. Pedophile apologists are getting tiresome. Read this entire thread on DataLounge and still tell me you’d defend him. Most of these are from 2011.

“I just usually have a hard time believing kids of that age.”

And receiving accolade upon accolade...I can’t even imagine what it feels like to have your abuser publicly celebrated. My heart breaks for them.

seemingly made up

Contact Pat Moran’s casting agency. I worked as a production assistant on season 3 and 5 of House of Cards. Beau was well aware of Spaceys innappropriate behavior. Everyone on set was/is aware. I’m a female so I never received unwanted advances from him, but he acted innapproprately with many of my male co-workers. I…

Years ago (like about 20) I worked with a woman whose young son would stop by the office a lot. He was a sophomore or junior in high school. Anyway, he told me a really creepy story about Kevin Spacey coming on to him hardcore at some DC Clinton dinner-type event. The kid’s parents were connected somehow and rated an…