Exactly- and the vast majority of the jobs you mention are done by women and people of color and immigrants.  

Step 1: Waive the Jones Act.

What happened? Life. What a life she has had and continues to have.

A few years ago, we saw her live doing Wishful Drinking on Broadway. Two things about the wonderful performance: we sat in the front row and were anointed with glitter by Fisher; as we were leaving, some uptight old broad from the UES kept saying, loudly, “Oh, she was so beautiful—what happened? Why did she let…

I think it’s fine if everyone is aware that it’s a fling, everyone (including wife) is consenting, and ultimately, it’s all fun and games.

Yeah, look. I have a friend who is 41 yrs old. And he thinks he’s “still young” and considers me (women his age) to be “old” over 40. I noticed that he likes to date women under 25.

Your own personal experience is one thing, but when that big an age gap occurs in the workplace between coworkers, one a relative Hollywood newcomer teenager and the other a married much older experienced actor, and there are drugs and alcohol involved, that’s where I see an issue.

Ditto (well minus the drugs and alcohol). There seems to be a large divide between giving women sexual agency and 19 year olds falling victim to perverted older men. And no gray area.

I personally hate the “it was a different time” excuse. That doesn’t make it ok when everyone forgets about how Bowie and all the other rockers of the time were fucking 13 year old girls and it sure doesn’t excuse this either.

No, it kind of made me a bit sad for all involved, including the kids. But his first wife, Mary, on whom he cheated on with Fischer, said many good things about Harrison Ford after they divorced and apparently he took care of her financially when she was suffering (and eventually died) from MS. Even his then SO,…

Yeah definitely. But seriously—THAT’S what it took? A man once told me I kissed like a 23 year old and I wanted to die and melt into the ground. I can recognize it now as a gross power move and boy did it work. Harrison Ford, you are a slime meat ball.

As I near 32 I can’t fathom spending time with a 19 year old

Yeah. Good point. This definitely makes Harrison Ford look creepy. It was a different time! is always a great response.

Yeah. I know Donald Trump has, like, fried our brains re: sex but a “technically legal” and “consenting” relationship does not mean that it’s a healthy one.

Yeah, not sure why everyone is so happy about this...? Sounds unhealthy, and I’m saying this as someone whose sexuality was pretty much awakened when she watched Star Wars and saw Han Solo in his tight, tight pants being a badass.

Everyone else seems to think this is a great thing, so am I the only one skeeved out by the fact that a much older 34 year old ~married~ man took advantage of a drunk/high teenage girl? Like if someone said Chloe Grace Moretz and Seth Rogan smoked weed together and had sex while filming Neighbors 2, that would not be…

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo she was a 19 year old drug addict and he was 34 and married. No wonder Carrie Fisher always finds ways to emphasize that Harrison Ford is a douche biscuit.

while this is, of course, true

Nope. And interestingly, outwardly ‘religious’ symbols are supposedly banned in schools: yalmukas, hijab, etc... interestingly, this does not apply to students who choose to wear a cross on their necklace because that’s small. So.

NPR had a story about that this morning. One of the poeple they interviewed on a beach in Normandy said he had seen nuns in habits at the beach the day before. No one bothered them. Here’s my shocked face.