secondhandprose
Secondhand Prose
secondhandprose

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.

So yeah guys, if you’re like, “I don’t know what I personally can do to help!”, the thing to do is to call out men, ESPECIALLY YOUR FRIENDS AND COWORKERS AND ACQUAINTANCES when they are creeps and abusers. Especially your friends and coworkers and acquaintances. Especially your friends and coworkers and acquaintances.

Totally agree, it’s so much harder to criticize someone you know, and Colbert could have done better. I appreciated that Mike Schur apologized for having Louis CK on Parks & Rec even after hearing the rumours about him, and I wish more people would respond that way.

I think it stems from an expectation that you should scrutinize your peers far more than anyone else? Alternatively treating it like a throwaway joke while making a bigger deal about Roy Moore or another recent epicenter of sexual allegations is a bit of a problem.

Much as I like Colbert, I’ve started to judge people at least a little by how they react when the accused man is one of their peers. He could have done better, especially since none of this came completely out of the blue. If I’ve heard rumors about Louis C.K., I assume his fellow comedians have too.

Jeremy Piven seems to be under the impression that people liked him before the allegations came out. Bless his heart.

Fuck you Piven. I bet he’s been shitting himself for weeks. They all are.

They’re dicks.

WTF is going on with dudes named Weiner?

Well, that’s the one thing we got.

Those eggs are probably delicious.

so, so, so NOT BINGO. everyone is running to defend themselves for plugging their ears and not showing one shred of doubt where there was damn good reason to be suspicious. TEAM JEZEBEL ALL THE WAY ON THIS ONE.

I’m not sure why you’re bringing up the Washington Post? The New York Times broke the story earlier this morning — two different cities, two completley different media outlets.

The revelation in Thursday’s New York Times that comedian Louis CK acted sexually inappropriate with women comedians

Heck, I grew up in pot-smoking, hippie-filled British Columbia and my dad would have disappeared him. I think most half-decent dads don’t fuck around with that shit.