The extremely cynical part of me is thinking they are taking on this case so they can deliberately botch it and/or create an opportunity for bad legal precedent for future cases involving hate crimes against transgender people. To the criminal lawyers out there, can this case, if appealed to higher courts, result in a…

I feel like I can translate this pretty well.

Not sure why, but this feels like a slightly creepy request. Not quite on par with “Leave your blinds open at night...for your neighbors”, but it feels like it’s in a similar ballpark.

I dunno. When Man on the Moon and the Larry Flynt movie were out a lot of critics showered major praise on her acting. I think there’s even an embarrassing quote from Roger Ebert that suggested the greatest legacy of grunge might turn out to be Love’s acting career.

with the number of personal accounts of people warning other people about Weinstien coming out, it seems to me like it’s not the fault of anyone not saying anything about him, it’s that nobody listened or took them seriously.

If you know about the xkcd comic, why do you think it’s illegal for Twitter to decide who can and can’t use its private corporate service, like any other site? Twitter blocks spammers, of course it can block Nazis too. Until they do, muting abusers is a way to deal with them.

i think the problem goes way deeper than setting yourself to not listening to the so-called “troll minority”.....I think this “minority” is way deeper and bigger than you’d think. For example, whenever I try to play a game like counterstrike or other online multiplayer game, I can’t remember a game where someone…

Do you have a source for that? Haven’t seen it anywhere else, and I looked at her twitter a few times last night and didn’t see anything.

I wonder how much breaking her non-disclosure is going to cost?

After all the horrible shit I see on Twitter day after day (and report), I seriously cannot believe her account was suspended. Well, I guess I can believe it, I’m just amazed that’s our reality.

I’ll preface this by saying I’m not yet a parent, but...

I’m a married woman in a male dominated field. I have eaten dinner with a man one on one on business trips but one dinner that really sticks out to me is when a colleague and I wrapped up a huge successful project and wanted to celebrate. I suggested a quick bite, he wanted to go all out so we went to a nice…

I had a really disturbing conversation with a friend who said she would not “allow” her husband to have dinner with young female colleagues. Aside from the fact that she apparently can’t trust her husband if he’s off-leash, that is the kind of shit that holds women back at work. People really can work together without…

Yeah, and I was trying to be relatively snarkfree with this one. I legitimately wanted to know if there was a legitimate reason for this. It’s a fine line to draw between public safety and public ear safety

Or folks could have just used “they/them” pronouns, which was understood to be correct and was widely known in the ensuing coverage. I notice that small amount of respect was too much even for you to provide.

Honey, I am so sorry. The only girl/woman I knew who “got over it,” was a friend of mine who had a strong relationship with her parents, who were both strong people. A funny uncle who was living in their house temporarily started abusing her, and one day when he was out of the house, she told her parents.

Oh, undoubtedly. And isn’t he on record bragging about all the underage girls he’s fucked? I’d wager a lot of those weren’t “merely” statutory rape, since he demonstrably doesn’t give a goddamn about consent.

Anyone who heard about his most famous rape (of Geimer) and didn’t think this was a scenario he had repeated numerous times before and after that with other victims is a moron.

The motherfucking stigma!!!!! I fucking hate it so much. Do you have any idea how many girlfriends I have who have kept their abuse secret because they didn’t want to hurt their parents? It’s not bad enough that you’re abused by a predatory asshole be he a stranger or a family friend but now you have to protect adults…

manipulating a 15 year old who wants to be an actor, and raping her repeatedly. what a piece of shit.