“Coming towards us there’s a small procession, a funeral: three women, each with a black transparent veil thrown over her headdress. ... The first one is the bereaved, the mother; she carries a small black jar. From the size of the jar you can tell how old it was when it foundered, inside her, flowed to its death. Two…

Who is taking care of the kids? Really? They have a dad. My husband is out of town on work trips for more than half the week. Not one person has ever asked him who is looking after the kids. PREGNANCY has a death risk. Not as high obviously, but the possible complications are lengthy. With my second pregnancy I spent…

Speaking as a writer, and also a white dude: the adoption of mythology into a fictional world is complicated. To draw from experience—the Wild Hunt mythology for Europe. Different countries/cultures have different takes on the myth, some of them *vastly* different takes, and for the purpose of a book, for the purpose…

And now I’m picturing an interesting science fiction world in which anyone who wants children is forced to adopt, and the only legal pregnancies are those which can be proven to be accidental.

I’m sorry you’re a judgy asshole who shits on women’s choices.

Idiot gun nuts would say that you aren’t granted the right to drive under the constitution, so restrictions can be placed on your license to drive.

I have to get a mandatory education before I can obtain a driver’s license. It boggles the mind that in some places you can buy a weapon specifically designed for killing without the same rule.

Polanski isn’t exactly being lauded as a whole. Sure, a great deal of Hollywood loves him. But the US government would love to get their hands on him. He is a wanted man here and made a mockery of the judicial system. If he dares to set a single toe on US soil, the government will throw his hide in jail.

Polanski...let himself...have sex...with...an underage...person.

And I feel bad jumping on someone...but it’s sayings like that that are part of the reason people are willing to sweep what he did under the rug.

I don’t think everyone else is. I think people hear “his victim forgave him and doesn’t want him prosecuted” and don’t realize that for 32 years before she said anything to that effect, she was mad as hell and sued him and wanted him prosecuted. That it’s only an excuse people have used for the last 6-7 years. People…

You make points no one made. Certainly not MJW in this specific instance. What’s gross is that there is different treatment for equally heinous artistic scumbags and the art they made/make. The volume of victims, the recency, nor how the heinous scumbags portrayed themselves in public (do most rapists and pedophiles…

Kelly was found not guilty because his victims and their families refused to testify, many of them are now credited as “musicians” on his albums. Weird coincidence how that happened, huh/.

The Cosby Show stayed on air for 9 years after Cosby’s rape of multiple women first became public knowledge. Cosby might be facing consequences now, but let’s not pretend he wasn’t protected in the same way Allen and Polanski for the majority of his career. The idea that any of us should be clutching our pearls that…

Amen, Malcolm! I haven’t watched anything by Allen or Polanski in over 20 years.

Yes! And how come R. Kelly still has a successful career?

Can the cast do a civil suit against Cosby for lost income? I mean, nothing like more lawsuits but think this is a way some of them could recoup their income if they really wanted.

Seriously on B? He was sad so he drugged and raped a child?