I know I’m not going to read his piece - I know it make me physically and emotionally ill for days. I know that, because readying just this article about it has my stomach churning, my skin clammy, and my brain spinning.

I loved the honest of this piece. It is not shocking to me but refreshing to hear the truth from a man. I love that he is able to says what occurred and not be weighed down with shame anymore. It is never the child’s fault. We have to deal with the consequences, it is unfortune and unavoidable.

I am a male rape survivor and his story is why I had mixed feelings about #Metoo. This experience is so much more common than you know for men, yet we are included in very little of the collective narrative, if at all. Sorry Anthony Rapp, what happened to you was not right, but it was not the same as being strangled,…

Oh well, as long as you hate being a cynical person. I guess it’s okay to trash a child rape survivor.

I wouldn’t compare being a lousy boyfriend due to psychological trauma to being a molester or rapist.  

Me Too is, at least partly, about fighting toxic masculinity. This piece strikes exactly at how damaging toxic masculinity is and how it perpetuates itself to compound the damage.

Are you really comparing getting raped as a child to being cheated on as an adult?

Why qualify this statement? It reads as though your response to this is “I feel bad for the 8 year-old boy, but worse for the adult women he later dated.” Yes, he cheated - but it does not sound like he raped anyone, so why qualify what sounds like a deeply traumatizing and lasting issue he bottled up as being lesser…

So well written. This reminded me a lot of my childhood and life - the knowing that I wasn’t really a man because men can’t be raped. The shame and depression. For me it was years long sexual abuse from my step father and there are multiple times in my life where the fallout from those years nearly destroyed my life…

I read this on my phone this morning, on the bus. It’s devastating, and so very important.

It always reads, to me, like what they’re trying to do is guilt you and make you dislike yourself so that you’ll buy their next book/attend their next seminar on how to fix what was never wrong with you in the first place.

I always get pissed off about these types of motivational speakers that view any type of externalization of blame as “victimhood” or “blaming others.” It always reads, to me, like what they’re trying to do is guilt you and make you dislike yourself so that you’ll buy their next book/attend their next seminar on how to…

People still go to Tony Robbins seminars? I thought he turned into one giant fossilized tooth years ago.

Mine would be, “I’m contractually obligated to be here,” followed by a shot of me too busy texting on my phone to look up at the camera.

Asiago Sargento wants to know why she can’t get work in Hollywood.

I’m inclined to believe Asia. Breillat’s films are full of horrifying misogyny, although I’m sure someone will come along to explain why I’m not deep and French enough to understand why they’re actually feminist masterpieces. I don’t know how anyone could watch, say, “Anatomy of Hell” and not think its creator might…

Breillat is the Cool Girl of French cinema. I sincerely hope to see less of her type of male-gaze-friendly films from the next generation of women directors.

Oh goddammit. I loved “Ren & Stimpy.”

Or name them after sex workers whose murders weren’t properly investigated!

Can’t be said enough.