Based on what I saw on Twitter, I believe bots were used to amplify the story. I still believe Brunton. This is a tougher case to accept, Take was one of my heroes but this isn’t going to be where I start looking for reasons to question a victim. Bots pushing the story just means some people still think sexual…

Some people like “painful” drinks, I’m sure there’s a similar motivation between the people who like really bitter IPAs and red wines with lots of tannins.

Honestly, Sierra Nevada is too bitter for me or, at least, it’s the wrong kind of bitter. I like it when they use “hopbursting” where the bitterness comes from a lot of hops instead of a long boil, which creates a less sharp bitterness. I also like it when an IPA makes good use of the hops’ aromatic qualities, which…

Does it matter what kind of mango? Those plump red ones taste fine to me but those curvy yellow ones do have an aftertaste and an odor of garbage for me.

I knew so many friends in college who just loved it, that must have been such a disappointment if they ever learned about it.

I never knew that about Marion Zimmer Bradley. Guess I’ll take Firebrand off my ‘want to read’ list.

For now, it is a he said/he said but it’s not often someone does something like that just once. I guess we’ll see if it continues to be Takei’s word against Brunton’s or if this will get more guys to say Takei’s done similar things to them.

I think Mad Men might be one of those shows I can continue to watch even with these revelations. It’s always been a difficult show to watch as it varies between being a show nostalgic for the days when straight white male privilege ruled and one about marginalized people finding a way to power. This makes it more…

The first time I heard it, I thought that joke was so powerful but now it’s clear he was expressing those thoughts from the perspective of an abuser and not someone, as I thought, trying to understand the world women have to live in.

Part of what makes this a lot more difficult than accepting the accusations against Jeremy Piven is that CK has done stories that are pretty good with its female characters (and ones that definitely hint at who he really was). Better Things is such a rare thing in being a show with an entirely female cast, a female…

Fine yourself a man who can be an action hero and the guy the heroine wants to save from danger. Chris Evans and Chris Pine were closely tied for me but Dr Alex Murphy turned out to be the tiebreaker.

I think it helps that, by all appearances, Kevin Spacey doesn’t have an army of bots ready to play a game of Whatabout... or a situation where rejecting Kevin Spacey means picking another specific person.

Growing up in the 80s, Martin Sheen was the movie star who did a bunch of issue TV movies because he believed in getting the message out. (One, about alcohol dependency and domestic abuse, we even watched in a class.) So I’m really hoping Charlie is an example that sometimes, no amount of good parenting will help.

After last year, I’ve come to see statements like that or “I am the least bigoted person there is” as signs that there is something very wrong with the person.

Yeah, I’m replaying the musical numbers in my head and am trying to figure out a time when I can rewatch it just from a mention. I can see why some people thought the musical numbers were bad at the time, but I think some of the things that came later end up making them look a lot better.

I love Xanadu and only some of that is loving it as a bad movie. The script is awful but ONJ and Gene Kelly work the hell out of it. The musical numbers are great for 1980, frequently predicting what MTV would look like when it debuted. A lot of it looks better now that jumping on a short-lived trend like roller…

“I was going to offer you this delicious milkshake but then I heard Michelle Obama say milkshakes are unhealthy so I guess I’ll throw it out...”

It was ages ago since I read the article but the crazy thing is that once a day of execution is decided, they keep it secret.

To most men when they picture sexual violence it’s a guy in a balaclava jumping out of the shadows and putting a knife to a woman’s throat as he drags her into the darkness to abuse her. That mystery attacker might as well be a mythical creature in their mind because they can’t imagine taking the mask off and…

On one level, his conversation with a Ugandan official is laughably over the top, but at the same time you realize that these caricatures of homophobes are also directly or indirectly responsible for scores of deaths and beatings of LGBTQ people.