I appreciate where you are coming from. He’s only guilty at this point of celebrating misogyny in his writing from that period in the past. What got me is how incredibly vile his words were. Sociopathic, really. I have followed his work over the last several years and completely agree with your assessment of it. …

Yes, and using the (apparent) lack of accusations/reports at the time from women who would have really needed those office jobs as evidence that nothing happened is BS.

Do you really think that if female staff in Russia in the 1990's didn’t report the harassment then it didn’t happen? In Russia in the 1990's ??

I had a female friend from Japan when I was a grad student. She came over to my place to teach me how to make a Japanese dish one evening but left to go back and get something from her place. When she didn’t come back I phoned and got no answer (pre mobile days). So I got worried and drove over to her place. As I…

It was in the runup to the Iraq War that that became clear to me. I’ll read it, but I’ll never be able to love it.

Interesting that rumors seemed to come out of your hometown as well as everwhere else he’s worked. He’s had a pretty good run, but I don’t see how he comes back from this.

By lowland Southern, I was referring to the broad dialect category that includes much of the southeast and deep south, and differs from inland (Texas) or mountain. His accent picks up and exaggerates certain Southern characteristics and leaves off others - as if he figures it will all average out in the end.

It’s time to update your thinking about sexual assault, and your choice of fragrance.

You may still have other vestiges. I’ve had people ask me where I’m from and say it’s because I pronounce “where” and “whether” differently from “wear” and “weather”. I hadn’t noticed that they don’t.

Had to read that sentence twice myself. Is that scary or what.

My family is from north Louisiana (several generations), and I guarantee I never heard anyone talk anything like Spacey in HoC.

Yeah, if it’s true it’s remarkable that Spacey isn’t a serial killer.

I say “you all” up here, but if I were a better person I would just go ahead and say “y’all”. And if they look at me funny, ask them if the people who say “you guys” have any right to judge.

“Y’all” should take its rightful place in our language. It is a useful and elegant word, held back only by prejudice.

The first season was novel enough to tolerate the absurdity of the storyline. Well, Doug Stamper made it worth watching. But Spacey’s Foghorn Leghorn accent was egregious. I couldn’t work out if he was incapable of a good lowland southern accent (it isn’t easy) or he just didn’t care.

People talk about a moral arc but it seems more like a pendulum that swings back and forth.

I recall hearing about his Rod Stewart- impersonator brother a while back.

I’m afraid there’s going to be a backlash. A lot of men who haven’t harassed or assaulted are still probably thinking this is all overblown and that some of what’s been reported is no big deal and/or made up. So they’ll retaliate/protect themselves by excluding women wherever they can. Men are still the majority…

You make a lot of assumptions about what other people think. Let me just tell you my thoughts. Women are sick to death of harassment and abuse. The Weinstein case opened the floodgates to women who have kept quiet for the sake of their jobs. The media has reported nonstop on Weinstein even though he had close ties to…

When you talk of people “shrieking” and “howling” about the “victimization” of women by “evil men”, you apparently don’t realize your language shows you don’t take the subject of sexual abuse seriously. You can tell yourself that you know what everyone on the left thinks, and that the lack of response to your posts is…