I think you misunderstood me: I don’t have a problem with your height, I think that’s probably one of the stupidest things to judge a guy on. Of course if I were a tall woman I might feel differently. But it’s not something I’ve ever worried about. You can make the pieces fit where it counts and I care zilch about the…

Wasn’t Irin Carmon on staff at Jez at one point? That would explain the book title. Never been crazy about that label for RBG, it’s white lady irony. (Yes, I am a white lady and no, I don’t scream “appropriation” at everything under the sun, but this one is just obvious and also, played out on Jez.)

I’m not a black woman nor do I play one on the internet but I think some very smart ones on this site would take issue with your comment.

I think that is the mode she is in, basically, and it’s very frustrating because she doesn’t get that feminists are different and she seems to like arguing against the second wave ideals. Listening to her speak feels like going back in time, but clearly it’s a crowd-pleaser.

...Mercedes Carrera, an adult film star who has become a vocal Gamergate supporter...

Well into adulthood, and I have good taste in movies.

I liked Legally Blonde 2. Almost better than the first one. I thought Elle’s story was one and done until I saw it but afterwards I was able to envision all sorts of plots with her.

Apparently the big uncut fight scene with multiple characters in Black Death is sword-fighting accurate. It’s also very brutal, that movie is basically a supplement to Game of Thrones with character doppelgangers. But they worked very hard to get the choreography right and won accolades from people who know what…

That’s what I thought he was trying to get at too, it just ended up kind of a half-formed thought in his interview. Trying to be anti-colonialist but ended up sounding colonialist. It’s a tricky thing to argue in comments on Gawker Media even.

No lie, I was thinking the same thing. It’s mystifying that so many on Jez conflate poly with cheating and demand that if we approve of one we have to approve of the other...sounds like this is their anthem, not mine.

If you were a woman you would perhaps be better at understanding at why those two examples are not the same and thus your consistency argument is irrelevant.

From who? I don’t think there is much controversy in it anymore. Although I am continually surprised so maybe.

I feel like he should have revisited, “Have a Coke and a smile and shut the fuck up.” That line was The Thing for a while and would be the biggest meta fuck you ever 30+ years later.

Thank you very much for replying with all this. Your perspective is sorely needed in this discussion, here and in the conference rooms. It’s quite enlightening.

Yes, those are the feelings I have yet to negotiate. For all my talk about separating the art from the artist, when it comes down to actually watching them on the screen....sometimes it’s just a big old nope. Not that I’m being a hypocrite: I sincerely feel we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater/ the show…

I guess for some...? There is no question the show is tainted by his association, we just each have different ways of looking at how it is tainted, I guess.

Thank you!

How ‘bout you fuck right off?

You keep pinning part of the blame on the Cosby Show and I’m saying pin it all on Bill Cosby!

I’m still saying it doesn’t matter. If he couldn’t promise a guest spot on the Cosby Show, he would have promised something else. If he zero power at all the lies he told would have been bigger. Because he is a rapist who happens to have a specific pattern. The Cosby Show did not create that pattern and had he retired…