You don’t think it’s coercion if someone just doesn’t hear a no? He was trying to wear her down, basically; the fact he didn’t quite succeed doesn’t make what he did okay.

On verbal and non-verbal communication:

The thing is if they want to have a conversation about how journalists pursue these types of stories go ahead, but don’t do it at the same time you’re talking about an allegation against a famous Man U like.

YUP x 1 billion

Jezebel, What Are You Doing? Days of silence on the topic, and then what comes forth is not actually the thinkpiece on sexual coercion and the “ways consent can feel blurring”, on how predators purposefully use bullshit excuses about “miscommunication” to get away with it, about how Ansari is more representative of…

“Reporting on sexual violence and misconduct is an incredibly delicate undertaking that requires a working understanding about how best to do it.”

The babe author’s tone, predictably, became the grounds for attack by critics, but the fact that they reached out to Grace and not the other way around isn’t journalistic malpractice. It’s reporting.

This piece is unreal. I’ve been looking for Jez’s take on this for over 24 hours. They haven’t covered it at all except to say that Babe did it badly. Way to have those tough conversations, Jez

Would it have been better if they just published rumors that just happened to be true? They published a women’s account of being pressured into a sexual interaction she wasn’t comfortable with, and one in which the man repeatedly ignored her cues that she was uncomfortable. That’s newsworthy.

I knew Jez would do this story eventually, but this was not what I was expecting, but I’m not surprised.

and no, salvaging garbage does not count

Rey is the queen of all mary sues.

Millennials think they invented it. Like the internet.

In fact, why not blame the “oh come on, toughen up and be a Cool Girl like us” on the MOST recent wave.... which was that sort of performative “I’ll wax my pussy and act in porn all I want and you can’t tell me what to do” Spice Girl Feminism? Makes as much sense as blaming Steinem et al. for being calcified.

You titled this wrong. If you want to go after liberal feminism, go ahead, but this is not about second wave feminists. You can find this kind of “feminism” in every feminist generation, including your own.

Second wave feminism is the absolute anthesis of “liberal” feminism, aka “fun” feminism. You seem to be labeling these women as “second wave” because of their age. Not very feminist of you, is it?

Through his eyeballs.

but I will admit that if one of my friends said this to me...

If you don’t understand the Biden hate, I can assume that you’re under 40, and probably under 30. Joe Biden was in charge of the Anita Hill hearing during Clarence Thomas’s confirmation, and failed utterly in preventing the panel of men from harassing her during her testimony.

It’ll be infuriating. He has every flaw leftists said made Hillary untenable times 100 and they won’t have nearly the same amount of bile for him.