Now imagining a tense dinner party scene, James Baldwin and Marlon Brando staring at each other across the table, saying more with their eyes than their words dare communicate.

Holy shit.

My money’s on: she did get a flu shot. For me/not for thee.

She can feel free to get the flu and die, but I’m getting my damn flu shot like a reasonable adult.

You have to let someone else win sometimes. Sometimes you have to let other people win.

I am tired of men defining real rape as “the level which I haven’t done to a woman”. The rape definition changes and doesn’t get believed because these men feel guilty as fuck because they knew in their hearts they’ve crossed lines and boundaries. Tarantino sits at home at night and lies to himself he’s not a rapist…

Actually, it was both statuatory rape, and forcible rape, He drugged her, He held her down, he anally raped her twice, while she repeatedly said no and begged him to stop: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/roman-polanski-grand-jury-transcript?page=27

With both Howard and Robin being on the right side of the issue... even more astounding.

The Shape of Water is del Toro - who as far as I’m aware is a sweetie - not Tarantino.

Not only did she explicitly say she didn’t want it in her deposition testimony, not only was she drugged, but having sex with a 13 year old is also a crime in France, where Polanski fled, and in Poland, where he was born, (and it was for both of them in the 70s too.)

He didn’t rape a 13-year-old. It was statutory rape...he had sex with a minor. That’s not rape. To me, when you use the word rape, you’re talking about violent, throwing them down—it’s like one of the most violent crimes in the world. You can’t throw the word rape around. It’s like throwing the word ‘racist’ around.…

(But I’ll see YOU, at the next meeting, right? Shh, make sure Rolphe doesn’t hear where our secret feminist meetings are held!) 

Like, does she thing MILLIONS of women get together on the regular and agree on an “official position” on each topic?

God, talk about someone who makes the same fucking thing over and over. “Oh, my marriage is problematic! I like someone I’m not married to! Oh no, I’m awkward around women!”

And she says that without a hint of irony. What about all the women who got silenced by predatory men? Does she feel she missed out on their contributions to art, literature, journalism or music? Doubt it.

The best part of the whole article was when she complained about people making fun of her, and whined that no one will ever be able to make anything original ever again bc of all the “thought policing” (“thought policing” aka, people saying Katie Roiphe sucks)

I feel the same way. I don’t mourn him for a second but I don’t find anything satisfying/worth celebrating about his death. Child abusers are still out there. There still aren’t solutions.

I think its rather nice that a father and son can show love and affection towards each other. Lord knows my father rarely did.