Thank you. I was anticipating the kink argument coming out, and I have absolutely no patience for it. If coercion wasn’t the appeal of these acts, he could have and would have found women who didn’t work with him to play sex games with.

No, see here’s the thing. When you have power in a workplace and you “ask to consensually masturbate” someone can’t actually give proper consent because they risk losing their job if they say no.

I always get uncomfortable when late night hosts address sexual abuse stories and then end with a joke. You don’t see that nearly as much as when they are talking about a mass shooting or some other horrific act. It seems like when they decide to throw a joke in that they are diminishing the seriousness of these…

This is so meta. Teen girl needs to adopt male alter-ego to be taken seriously in baseball journalism, but adopts male alter-ego of a sketchy jerk, gets busted.

Men absolutely act like this. And not just millennials.

I think you tend to overcompensate though, when you’re clumsily mimicking something? She shot for the most overblown kind of man: horny, drunk, violent, possessive, because our culture says women are soft and gentle and big manly men are tough and possessive and always after sex. And she thought she had to be the…

And may it continue. Some of us no longer want to hide what happened.

The way these stories are snowballing every day, I think we may sadly need a daily roundup, much like Dirt-Bag or Barf- Bag. Suggestions:

Don’t forget how hard he simultaneously pimped/punished his muse, Jessica Pare, as Megan. She was savaged online and her looks came under the kind of scrutiny that was vicious even by internet standards, and it was like he was forcing her to dance faster and faster to gain approval for his “vision.”

And then he killed off Betty and gave Don a happy ending. He totally has a problem with women.

The work that she’s been doing since seems important and good, but it’s so shitty that this experience effectively killed her desire to keep writing. She had worked her way up to a point she could be proud of, and he poisoned the whole thing. I hope that all of these men who’ve abused their power are permanently…

It’s pretty simple. Lots of men are really, really proud of their (sadly, actually unique) ability to understand that patriarchy is real, and does hurt both men and women in discrete ways. They get these concepts as abstracts, but they fail to overcome their own socialization and apply this knowledge to their day to…

Damn appropriate.

I love Mad Men but I’m not surprised either.

i think she’s a fucking psycho who isn’t taking responsibility for her actions; i do, however, think that asking for nudes is just as close to being the norm as it is to being an exception. maybe #notallmen but a significant enough percentage i think

It’s the Stanford Prison Experiment. When you get power, you get drunk on that power and you embody all those vile things.

I bet there’s over a billion men on earth that you don’t know.

I think the power dynamics must have thrilled her, just as they thrill any man.

So a teenage girl pretended to be a man in his 30's on the internet.

There’s far too many gender issues in this story than one could unpack in ten lifetimes.