Well, if that isn’t the mother of self-defeating arguments. He’s still relevant enough to get speaking engagements, which means he’s still relevant enough to handle criticism. If he wasn’t relevent, we wouldn’t be discussing him right now.

“but you’re not publishing books on the national and international level of”

Oh, good grief, settle down.

Note: “This is a made-up controversy, and you should feel ashamed from this exploitation.”

The 1960s were not the dawn of time. He did his work in a time when things were changing. He’s been around working since then. He should know better by now. He’s certainly old enough to know better.

How OLD are you? Hunter Thompson? Are you trolling us? Your nice command of language is put to petty and worthless purposes. You Could do better, but you seem to lack the imaginative skills to do so. I recommend a healthy literary diet fortified with inspiring, invigorating women writers who were born after George…

Oh fuck you. Why didn’t Doctorow, Bashevis-Singer, or even Heller succumb to the same schticks? They were of the times, also. It has to do with greater and lesser gifts. And Talese was one of the lesser. What do they call it? Moral relativism? That’s what you are claiming as a defense of Talese? Fuck that.

I love the inevitable backpedaling!

You should feel ashamed for suggesting that Talese’s age is either an excuse for misogyny or a marker of irrelevance.

The OP wants us to believe that this event, which is happening in the present, is past. Because he wants us to believe that misogyny is in the past. Typical misogynistic pseudoanalysis masquerading as “contextualization.”

Also worthy of side-eye: “the E.T. beauty”. Really? Mentioning her, hopefully, adult beauty while referencing the movie she did when she was 6 which, unlike many, many of her other movies, she was not the lead in, and, of course, no note of any of her adult acting or business ventures. Squicky.

But it’s also not *that* unusual for someone with a perfect childhood/parents to have issues with marriage or relationships, either.

Ok. But I read your comment several times before responding to it and it seemed to me that you were assuming that she had cheated.

What? Being called out for cheating on a spouse/partner is NOT the same as slut shaming. At all.

I don’t personally get the base notes of slut-shame, but I do detect a rancid top note of judgment.

Because if they are enrolled in school near her home and have their social lives set up there, when the primary caregiver is away, young children may stay with non-parental adults (nannies, other family members) so that it doesn’t disrupt their routine or lives. Nothing would stop their father from visiting or staying…

I don’t think Mercy has any other parents, though. She was adopted after Madge split with Guy Ritchie.

That source is really reaching, isn’t it? I get a slut-shamey vibe from it.

‘Drew had a very rebellious and wild childhood, with no family around her, and while she is a different person now, and a great mother, some of that can stay with you.’

A lot of bad rom coms, mostly. But I would still hang! You know she has better stories than the moms at the library for reading time.