Women dying is a feature, not a bug.

Men: The Rational Gender(tm). We’ll risk touching your boobs without express permission after a couple beers, but not when it might save your lives.

So we get sexually harassed because of our boobs but we don’t get CPR? Cool.

Being a feminist is more important than being called a feminist. I think.

It really bothers me when people use addiction or mental illness as excuses for their shitty (and criminal) behavior.

Exactly. This is as good as an apology can be. That’s the first step.

Again, I can make no comment on his sincerity or whether he is doing this just to save his career. It makes the most sense that yeah, that’s exactly what he’s doing. But it’s still a waaaay better statement than we’ve gotten from anyone else. That’s all I’m praising: the structure that (I assume) his publicist had him…

Not to parse every sentence, but I don’t think he was saying their admiration for him made him think it was okay. He was just saying that their admiration for him created a power imbalance he claims he didn’t perceive. He thought it was okay because he created a fiction that suggested that if he asked for and received…

“Somewhat consensual” = I asked but didn’t care too much after that.

Now this is how you do an apology, folks.

I think it’s more as compared to what pretty much EVERY OTHER MAN who has had such accusations leveled at him has done. Does this apology and mea culpa mean we should all forgive him? Absolutely not. He has to earn forgiveness with more than just a “My bad. Sorry!” But it makes me hope that he’s going to do what has…

Well that was NEARLY refreshing. Seeing a dude own his shit is so rare. I feel DIZZY.

And here comes the cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, everybody knows that he’s generally a thoughtful person (in the sense that he thinks about stuff on multiple levels), and we also know that he’s a strong and insightful writer. So it’s really no surprise in that sense that he was able to craft what may be one…

Nah, man; it’s a breath of fresh air, to hear an admission, but “I’m sorry that I was so famous and popular, and they wanted it” is not much of an apology. It’s the best we’ve seen, still not good enough.

As far as apologies go, that’s as good as it gets. No deflection. Doesn’t minimize his actions, or magically erase them, but it’s a good start.

I guess there’s no right way for women to come forward with these stories, according to men.

So yeah guys, if you’re like, “I don’t know what I personally can do to help!”, the thing to do is to call out men, ESPECIALLY YOUR FRIENDS AND COWORKERS AND ACQUAINTANCES when they are creeps and abusers. Especially your friends and coworkers and acquaintances. Especially your friends and coworkers and acquaintances.…

Jeremy Piven seems to be under the impression that people liked him before the allegations came out. Bless his heart.

Finally, a story about a man reaching for melons that we can all be happy about.

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