It was good and necessary. I’m black and I’ve been Ladybird. Plus, Laurie Metcalf is a goddamn national treasure. I bawled my eyes out and am going back to see it with my 23 year old so she can feel guilty as fuck and then we can go thrifting. It was good.

Laurie Metcalf better be nominated for best supporting actress! She was fantastic and it would be tickle me that Roseanne’s sister Jackie is up for an Oscar.

Oh, it is undoubtedly a White girl drama about finding yourself (ish), but it added some meat and unexpected details to the typical “bones” of the narrative. It felt honest and resonated at a deeper level, for me (a white lady around Gerwig’s age), than other movies I’ve seen that tried to accomplish similar things.

I do not fear women after 52 long years of being female on this planet. I fear men. Stop deflecting and face the problem.

THANK YOU, Rooo. What the living fuck?!? Can you tell it’s all men trying to make themselves feel better—again? do they honestly think that *our* Dads didn’t teach us about car keys and how to knee a groin and the other 80,000 sad and terrifying lessons they tried to impart?

Men cannot be trusted to comport themselves well.

I’ve heard those same tired excuse every time I’ve raised the question.

I find it ... intriguing ... that pretty much everybody in this subthread is still far more focused on teaching the daughters to defend against sexual assault than they are on teaching the sons not to assault.

My fave eps are still “Nosedive” (Bryce is AMAZING) “Be Right Back” (Hayley SAME) and “San Junipero”.

Oh, don’t worry about us. I work in retail and our skill-sets carry over pretty well into the restaurant industry, which is booming.

lord, do I love Aritzia. It’s the one shop I’ll actually go to in person these days. I love that I can find comfy clothes, work clothes, and going out clothes all in that one store, and the shopping experience feels ritzy but inclusive.

The intent is not just as important as the action. If you make an sexual joke in a professional setting, it doesn’t matter that you think you’re just being funny. It’s still inappropriate. If your imagined situation of them having a playfully antagonistic relationship is true, sexual jokes in professional settings are…

Bitches Be Crazy, right Bigwolf? That’s the only possible explanation, and it’s so sad that more people aren’t supporting you in that.

I think I’ve figured out what else bothers me about what you may genuinely believe is a search for some exonerating context.
You keep asking: what if the guy was just confused? What if he had good intentions and just went too far?
First of all, you need to reckon with the fact that you’re positing a guy who somehow is…

Oh no, millions of women are sexually harassed at work every day, but who will think about these poor hypothetical men?

Women being harassed and assaulted is a larger problem than men being falsely accused. Let’s focus more on the larger problem first.

we now live in a society where victims of rape and sexual abuse are questioned or dismissed every step of the way, if they have the gall to report their abuser. i’m sure that’s preferable, than a man getting called out on social media for being an abuser, and losing a job or two. (because that’s as bad as it’s gonna…

Sometimes HR responds with “what proof do you have?”. And while I get why they do this, it’s kinda disheartening. What exactly are you supposed to do? Record all your interactions with every colleague, just in case? That’s not feasible...

Except you didn’t really do anything to affect that. All you did was take an article around helping raise awareness of women’s issues in the industry and try and completely change the subject to YOUR problems. It sends a clear message that, sure, you PREFER women’s issues get solved, but that’s not nearly as important…

Congratulations, you have contributed to why people don’t come forward!