You lose your power over a sex worker when they leave the room. For him, it was about absolute control — a sick kind of ownership over these women’s lives.

thank you for being a librarian/working in a library. Librarians, in my experience, are the moral compass of the public commons.

Because it sure as shit ain’t her actions or the shit she says that mark her as a “feminist”

It is all true! It can be a challenge to remember to focus on the awesome kids from the group home, not the jerkwad who drove them.

if you look at her “work” ( Girls is trash of the show) she is a rape apologist, unless its all about her.

Lord, her PR team must hate her.

My husband is a librarian and the stories he tells about patrons are the worst. Flat earthers who want to host public programs at the library and don’t understand FOR YEARS why the library is not interested, parents who run up hundreds of dollars in fines on their infant children’s accounts and of course this is…

It’s not a new story. Tina Brown has been mentioning it while out on her book tour, but Ivana told us about it years ago in her early 90s memoir.

Yesterday at the library I had to have a long circular conversation with a patron who is convinced that A) he does not have to bathe and B) our staff is lying about him when we say he is simply too stinky to have in the building until he bathes and changes his clothes. He cannot be convinced that he stinks, because he…

And I get it! I didn’t want it to be true. I’ve loved Al Franken since I was a little kid. I used to mimic his “Send me...your money...Al Franken” SNL routine all the time. I was thrilled when he turned out to be a deft politician and one of the best progressive voices we had. This is a punch to the gut. But he did…

Agree completely. From looking at the list of Weinstein’s victims, there’s also a long list of talented actresses in their 30s and 4os whose careers mysteriously veered off track around the time they were assaulted or harassed. I wouldn’t be shocked if there are writers and journalists and comedians who’ve had the…

Eff it. Burn it all to the ground. I’m having less and less sympathy every day.

I have zero time for handwringing about these guys. Should they be able to have a basic standard of living and one or two people who enjoy them enough to keep in touch? Sure. I’m willing to engage in some advocacy on behalf of poor sex offenders in that vein. Everyone listed already has that, though.

“They’re letters...from Bob Taft!

I mean, he said it ranged from a personal secretary to Bob Taft. So he fucked Bob Taft.

“I believe it is time to speak up on behalf of all heterosexual males”.

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Lord knows that when I look back on all the women I’ve loved, I primarily think about the men they worked for.

He fucked Bob Taft in a barn? kinky....