Exactly - we men only believe in rape when it’s useful as a ratioanle for murder. Nice that you looked past the man being murdered in this story to see this more salient point. Good lord this is blinkered and ridiculous.

Give me a break.

I wasn’t even aware that Jenna Bush had followed Billy Bush and Chelsea Clinton, using their name recognition to launch awful careers in ‘journalism’. It’s just heinous.

I find this article kind of ridiculous. It begins by insinuating a connection between allegations of sexual assault against Trump and the (basically unrelated) practice of politicians kissing babies. It then leaps to the separate issue of hugging extended family members. When her daughter says she doesn’t like…

Finally, some well deserved thanks to all of those people who “graciously open their homes” to ET every night.

To be honest I don’t think that theory makes any sense. He does not seem to suffer from insecurities of any sort, and if were insecure about his relative classlessness, you would expect him to more satisfied and loyal in his marriage.

I use a bottle cap as a plate & toothpicks as chop sticks.

Buskers, open mic might players, karaoke enthusiast: you need to retire the song Wagon Wheel. You needed to do so 5 years ago. Enough, enough, enough.

Is that idiot’s suit supposed to be that shiny or did he just clamber out of a vat of olive oil?

I’m a HRC supporter you imbecile.

A poll last week found 53% of voters view her unfavorably. Some are predicting that her contest with Trump will be the ‘battle of the most disliked nominees in history’. You don’t know what you’re talking about, I’m sorry.

So you’re giving up the idea that HRC and all women have an insurmountable likeability problem and embracing the exact opposite claim? That’s some agile trolling.

A variety of factors explain how Nixon managed to win - his election does not prove that likeability is not important. Not interested in arguing this point as it’s universally accepted by pollsters and political scientists that likeability is crucial to electability. That and your sweeping statement “women can’t be…

Like it or not, likeability is really important in politics, more so than competence (see Reagan). There’s no paradox with Sanders: his no-fucks-giving vibe is anything but unlikeable— it’s what voters love. There are plenty of examples of male politicians whose political ambitions are limited by unlikeability - most…

Only a very narrow segment of the press has ‘screeched’ when Obama does things suggesting a life outside his job. For the most part they’ve eaten it up. And the entire point of my post was to say that focusing on ‘hobbies’ is a little misleading. Why is it that people who start out their comments with ‘LOL’ or ‘Um’…

I take the point that gender is a factor in her unpopularity and it’s preposterous Brooks doesn’t mention this. But I think you’re straw-manning Brooks’s point about hobbies a little. He mentions lack of hobbies as a symptom of a broader likeability issue: “Clinton’s unpopularity is akin to the unpopularity of a…

Haven’t done the market research, but my gut tells me there’s not a big overlap between ‘people interested in reading a scholarly work on Simon Weil’ and ‘people interested in reading a book by a convicted sex offender with a high school education’.

I don’t think I’m relying on an arbitrary distinction. His intentions matter to the question of whether he poses a future threat: if his intention in hugging was an overly-familiar expression of gratitude that’s one thing; if his intention was to exploit his position of authority for sexual gratification, that seems a…

I take your point that the initial punishment was too lenient. Certainly that’s been the gist of public opinion, and I think it’s reasonable.

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