Exactly.

Seems obvious this was done so anti-immigration types could argue ICE isn’t racist, which is of course absurd.

Eh, some couples just like to tease each other — it may be part of their dynamic. It’s not like there’s a shortage of people to kiss his royal rump.

That’s pretty much what I think, too. They wanted to do a really happy gay teen love story. That’s admirable, but in trying to avoid conflict they ended up making Blaine dull. And as you said, by the time they tried to course-correct the show was past its prime.

So true.

The weird thing for me is that I honestly thought Darren Criss couldn’t act after Glee. Blaine always kind of faded into the wallpaper for me when he wasn’t singing, and I assumed that was because Criss was more a stage performer than an actor.

You knew what I meant, though. I acknowledged that calls for blacklisting are probably out there (in part because everything is, which is why most news stories about “look at what these idiots said on Twitter” are such trash), but I haven’t seen it personally and it’s not fair to portray it as the mainstream view. I…

Thanks. I try.

I never thought about it that way, but of course you’re right — it’s not really a fair comparison. Thanks for pointing that out.

Legally, yes, but in real life most people are pretty dumb at 23. You’ve only been out of college a year or two, and your brain isn’t fully developed.

I feel like we’re getting hung up on words like “coercion” and “assault” and ignoring the thing you just admitted — what he did (allegedly) was shitty and not-okay. I’d call it emotional coercion because he kept ignoring her no’s, but I get that it didn’t meet any technical, legal definition of a sex crime.

As a white girl, the 53% stat bugs me because I don’t like the idea people are looking at me and assuming I voted for that jackass.

I am so sickened by the ads for June’s show. Dating a child molester isn’t some charming human oddity like farting too much or putting margarine in your spaghetti; it should be a “one strike and you’re out” type of offense. The fact the WE and its advertisers don’t see it that way says something very sad about our…

The great thing about Twitter is that you can find any possible bad opinion on there. So I can believe calls for blacklisting are out there, but I think it’s fair to say it’s not a very common opinion.

And I appreciate your response. Thanks for talking this through with me!

It seems vaguely horrifying at first thought. But I’ve made chickpea blondies and they aren’t bad, especially given how much more nutritious they are than the standard kind. Maybe a raw version isn’t all THAT weird.

Nobody’s saying cut off his head. Nobody I’ve seen is even saying not to let him make another season of his show, for christ’s sake. He’ll have a bad week from this and maybe a few women will be reluctant to go on dates with him, which seems about right punishment-wise. Believe it or not, the #metoo “reign of terror”…

I was trying to avoid a debate over how common similar situations are or aren’t, but in hindsight the way I phrased it may have been unnecessarily snide.

If this was about something like a foot fetish, I would absolutely agree. Some things just aren’t our business. But Ansari quite literally wrote a book about dating that drew heavily on his personal experiences, and he publicly identifies as a feminist. Given that, I think it’s fair to make it known that he’s (at…

She’s not pretending she was raped. Pretending she was raped would be saying “Aziz Ansari raped me.” She told the whole story (possibly in too much detail), which opened the door to people like you criticizing her reactions.