WHOA. That is a reading. Man, I like that Jaime Manning-Breatchel. I wanna friend her on the book of face.

Jesus - is that his mom? Well, that explains a LOT.

I loved the Funny or Die skits she wrote and acted in. I think a lot of people are happy to conflate her with her Girls character, which is an unfair assessment. I'm a little worried that she comes of as very earnest in the trailers, but I'm not cheering for her to do poorly.

Plus her weird obsession with LGBT things - so of course she cares about a gender non-conforming performance. I like Lena a lot, but that is a bit off-putting of her how she's desperate to have some connection to gay and trans issues.

She does a marvelous, very funny British accent in the Will & Kate Funny or Die videos - that she wrote herself, BTW. Easy to pick on her, but she definitely has some comedy chops.

I personally cannot wait for what I'm certain will be a huge train wreck. That being said, I love Allison Williams. I expect from the trailers she's going to be WAY too earnest, but that's part of her dorky-ass charm.

Y'all can quit with the "attention seeking" bullshit, seriously. Nobody is giving her money, and this isn't going to help her career. Nobody's career has ever been helped by coming forward with a rape allegation. When there are 16 other women saying virtually the same thing, one woman's credibility isn't an issue.

As a trans person, I have very mixed feelings about the casting. There are hundreds of trans men and women actors who are trying to get roles in television and movies, and many of them are not on hormones or opting for surgery - so those women would fit Maura's situation well. The fact that these people are shut out…

Knitting is awesome, though, and I highly recommend learning. Once you learn, it's very relaxing and comforting.

And some of those money orders were made out to women who have since come forward to make claims against him.

I mean to say "black men were lynched for being accused of" not that they necessarily did what they were being accused of.

No, look at the actual history in front of you. Black men were lynched for raping white *virgins* or white *mothers* — not fallen women who had sex outside of marriage or who supported themselves without the help of men. If the white woman is a "whore" (as has been implied by the Cosby team and their defenders for…

Don't reply; that's what keeps them in the black. Let them get flagged.

Because social media made them known to everyone now, where the media was conned into not publicly discussing them in decades past through a combination of intimidation, influence and persuasion by Cosby's media team.

Sherman above looks just like the kitty we trapped and took to get fixed yesterday.

I was just going to say that. I'm part of a pub knitting circle already. With a little agitation on my part, we could be feminist pub knitters, too.

Indeed. My parents were some of the fairly conservative (but not too conservative) people who didn't really smoke anything or drink all that much and who got married and had kids. They sort of understood the hippies, but they wouldn't have done this. I'll be I could talk my mom into it now, though. She's a lot more…

Combination of intimidation and judicious selection of victims, I'm guessing. As long as he picks women who might not be believed and uses a combo of threats and promises, he can get away with stuff for a long time, and as long as media doesn't take it seriously, it's no problem.

we have three tiny rescue kittens in our bathroom. Currently they all have homes to go to, but I'll just put you on our backup list, just in case. Because "we gave a kitten to Olivia Pope's Wine Glass" would an epic addition to my list of ridiculous things I've said out loud.

I would guess that distraction and discredit are the goals of the people make and spread these rumors.