Okay, so can we please just go ahead and conclude that “going off” on someone is not in the same category as forcibly kissing them, and need not be introduced as though it’s of even remotely the same class of (mis)behavior? I’m sorry, but revelations of sexual assault really do not need to be hijacked by accounts of…

Though perhaps it can be both? Feel for the boy for how he was violated, and censure the man who has wrought pain unto others? Can we not hold both poles?

I think of the product as it’s own separate entity. Movies are made by armies of people. There are a multitude of tiny things each one of those people add into the product to make it unique. It is essentially a child with dozens or hundreds of parents. And those children do not inherit the sins of the parents.

Amazing list, but there’s a Jonathan Franzen-sized hole in it.

Díaz “cornered and forcibly kissed” her and that she is not alone. Carmen Maria Machado added that he “went off” on her when she asked about his book’s protagonist’s “unhealthy, pathological relationship with women.”

Well, there is a shade of victim-blaming in there. My opinion in this regard goes beyond this incident and this accuser, the details we have are insufficient to have a halfway reasonable opinion; but I reserve the right to have an opinion on a grown-ass person who says “I was a wide-eyed 26 year old”. YOU’RE A FUCKING…

Not sure what to do with the Machado, Byrne stories. Granted it shows a pattern of chauvinist behaviour to women but it’s not sexual assault. Despite what these men’s friends and families say, these men tend to be all round jerkholes to everyone (see allegations of Weinstein, Spacey, Lauer’s general assholery).…

What’s happening in the world where a 26-year graduate student is so helpless?

No question that cornering/forcible kissing is crossing a line that can be uncrossed. That alone should cause people to think differently about his role as an advocate for progressivism and gender equality.

What is the Machado woman accusing him of exactly?? Being a self-important asshole? I’m sorry, I’m sure having to hear some jerk go off defensively about his work for 20 minutes is the pits, but I fail to see how this is sexual misconduct.

Can we not make this a thing please? Not even a thinkpiece type of thing? There’s no mystery here, and it doesn’t take investigative journalism to see this is clearly a small child being coached by overbearing stage parents to perform an annoying, badly Blaccented, not very clever character. This is cringeworthy at…

shirts.

Christ, these journalists are just falling over themselves to defend SHS, latching onto a throwaway joke about eyeshadow in their eagerness to keep their places at the Trump feeding trough.

I read an article last week where the author stated, “The American Dream is the most cruel thing that has ever happened to the white male. All his life he’s been taught that he just has to SHOW UP and he gets a beautiful wife, smart kids, a nice house and a decent job where everyone respects him. Women, people of…

God sometimes I’m like this whole internet thing was a huge fucking mistake.

Whoever wrote that will likely rape and kill someone sometime in their life once the pleasure they get from stalking wears off.

Jesus Christ why are these people not being hounded by the FBI like BLM is? They’re fucking terrifying and definitely dangerous.

I spent nearly half a year homeless and two of the first things to go are a sense of pride and community. The article above even states that by being in this troop and having this sale that these girls feel less isolated.

The girls asked to do this. How about focusing on giving these girls a chance to be kids. They’re becoming a community, they’re making friendships that may last a lifetime and they’re Doing something they feel proud about. I agree that there are some issues with the way the transfer of money is structured, but this is…

It is shockingly cruel. And up to that point, I had a pretty good job, I just didn’t have enough money saved up to prepare me for a medical crisis. I eventually had to file for bankruptcy because my bills were nearing six figures. I also lost my job for not returning in a timely manner, even though it was doctor…