Bernadette Peters will actually be 70 next year so she’s quite a bit past late middle age (she’s only 5 year younger than Malcolm McDowell if you can believe it). But that makes it even better in my opinion. An older woman is having sex without them constantly making a big deal about how amazing it is that an older…

A-fucking men. I’m so angry right now I can barely see straight. Al Franken has always been a champion of women and a progressive fighter. If anyone deserved a chance and a hearing, he did. Why not let the Senate ethics committee do its job? His resignation won’t make a fucking bit of difference vis a vis Trump or…

Your account was created 3 weeks ago, and you have commented the same statement over and over on multiple articles regarding Franken calling Franken a rapist and anyone who talks about him a rape apologist. Fuck you troll. I hope you get hit by a bus that is on fire .

Agree on the criminal part, still I feel what Franken did, falls into the realm of no game rather than creep or predatory assualt.

You’re not practicing logic or emotional intelligence right now.

There’s literally no rape at all being discussed in the Franken case.

Exactly and thank you. Franken didn’t engage in work place harassment and assault, and he champions women. He denies some of the allegations, and I have no doubt that the R’s are playing us and finding women to do and say things that aren’t true.

I hate to be right here but, I called it.

On a smaller scale, the same thing that happened to Corey happened to me and my family. My ex-husband was a city councilor where we lived. It’s a small position, but it does determine the police department’s budget. When my young male relative came forward to say that he was molested, he filed a police report,…

Gormk speaks from his ass. Rape has not been asserted, never implied, and by no means accused. The statement is hyperbolic and damaging to both victims of such a crime and simple discourse regarding Franken’s case.

The statute of limitations was 3 years at the time. It isn’t that no one was listening; it was that legally they could do nothing.

I know many Jezzies are millennials; you probably don’t know that, in 1993 when this tape was recorded, the statute of limitations for child sex crimes was three years. To its eternal credit, California attempted to change this following the Jackson case, and the Supreme Court rightly said you can’t retroactively…

Also worth asking is how perennial asshole-right fixer Roger Stone knew and tweeted about the allegations hours before they became public.

It’s certainly possible that her POV is informed by denial of something that happened to her personally, but at the same time your friend’s position is basically the default one in our society, so she could have just picked it up from hearing other people give those same defenses.

Well in fairness, Democrats spent 9 months of bipartisan commissions to evaluate health care proposals and begged any Republican anywhere to support them fruitlessly (in spite of many months of public promises by prominent Republicans). And on the other hand, Republicans spent 9 days writing a bill in secret and…

Humans touch each other, a quick squeeze during a photo is not unusual and can easily be intended as friendly. Humans also try to kiss each other and get turned down.  I’m all for punishing bad people but putting Franken on the cross is misguided at best. It seems his lesson has been learned. In this case - time to…

True. I initially dismissed him because of obvious sketchiness, but duh, hello, sketchiness is a side effect of abuse, not dis-proof.

Yes, I’m happy for Corey, too, but let’s not forget that he gave this statement while defending a pedophile. The fact that Corey Feldman has been vindicated doesn’t change the fact that he helped defend Michael Jackson. Just because he didn’t molest you, Corey, doesn’t mean he didn’t molest others. It kinda sucks that…

I’m ablifelong blue dot in a red state, and I’ve veen working in Democratic campaigns since I was a child in the late 1970s, after the great re alignment. Dad was an elected Democrat, Grandma was party chair. And at 45 years old I’m feeling something I never felt before: Reoublican envy. God they get everything, don’t…