So your main takeaway from her post is that she writes funny, not that there was some (at the least) creepy shit going on that they had to make a rule like that in the first place? She was like 14 years old.

Yea, this statement confused me. This is the reckoning. Right now. We’re watching it unfold in real time. I don’t see Whedon fans lining up to defend him, if anything we (yes, I was one) feel incredibly betrayed and grossed out by all this. The only question now is how much worse can it get, given Trachtenberg’s…

HBO also parted ways with him for his upcoming series. It may not be as splashy as getting fired, publicly, but it is something.

So does Whedon now dive head-first into catering to the right-wing douchebags that he claims to loathe now that they’re the only ones defending him?

I’m sorry for all the women who endured Manson’s abuse, but I am so glad to see they are speaking up for themselves and having a MeToo reckoning now. Solidarity. Fuck that guy and his shit music. There’s nothing edgy about abusing and terrorizing women.

I do not understand so many peoples problem with Black History Month. All right I do understand - its racism.

I’m amazed that soooo much attention has been tuned on her by the right, such that the left feels a need to follow it. She’s one representative of a very safe district. As such, she represents that district with her voice. I like how grounded she is and boy do I wish that the things she talks about would get more…

As a female academic, this is prevalent - even more so for women of color. Dare to show up a male colleague - or even (gasp) speak at a dept. meeting - and depending on the power structure in the department or University, you can be metaphorically fucked.

AOC was completely on point with clapping back at Cruz. He’s a POS and she (and anyone for that matter) shouldn’t have to deal with his bullshit.

What I find funny is that the supremely online left love to (rightfully) make fun of Democratic establishment as a whole for routinely falling for the GOP establishment “bipartisanship” call a la the Lucy and Charlie Brown football meme (though it does surprisingly seem like they might have finally learned something).…

It’s sadly common for people to treat real, structural power imbalances as "personal disagreements" that people need to "get over".

Tale as old as time. Many people, regardless of gender or political ideology, HATE smart women. And if that smart woman is also attractive? The hate is BLINDING in its intensity.

Cruz: Can we work together?

I know this article is about how the left is, at times, comically critical of people who are their allies and how the left eat their own regularly. Women in leftist spaces are still subject to misogyny.

Okay so we don't believe in rehabilitation now or is it just sex offenders that cannot be rehabilitated? If that is what you're going with why not just death penalty them right now and save everybody money? What he did is definitely very bad but being beyond rehabilitation seems very problematic. 

So we’ve had two articles from Jez asking us not to shame or side-eye people during Covid for getting on with their lives and here’s an article shaming white people for going to a SoulCycle class.

As an educator who teaches adults (textiles) honestly I can sympathize? My income took a huge hit last year and although I've been able to pivot some of my classes to online it's definitely not the same. They were very explicif about vaccines for educators being k-12 in my state or I would have tried to get an…

So much to comment on here, but I can’t get past that shot of her IG post where she writes, “... at the end of the day we go to sleep at night knowing we have changed the lives of our students in the most meaningful, compassionate ways possible!!”

That headline sure feels victim blaming. I don’t suggest Ashley wrote the headline.

He’s also a really intelligent man, going by interviews. I still remember being impressed by the essay he wrote in Rolling Stone after the Columbine shooting, since all I knew about him before that was his shock rocker performance persona.