You get that the factor that you are overlooking again and again, to the point that you look silly is you are correct on the power dynamic, wrong on how it plays out here, because:

Male Director who has built a cult of power around himself
vs
Female Star known for her work with him

Male Star who has built a cult of…

Fun fact: The first season of Charles in Charge was a completely different family, mousy nerds who Charles helped bring out of their shells.

Season 2 started with the family being replaced with... another family with cooler kids. 14 year old Nicole was cast to play a sexually aggressive Lolita type, and Scott Baio…

Guys, guys: The entire premise of Charles in Charge is an inappropriate sex joke, about how horny everyone is all the time, but that Charles manages to act morally and not molest the young women in his care.

Nicole was 14 when she joined the show, in a highly sexualized time and industry. She was getting hit on…

I don’t want to argue, and I’m not trying to bully you. Of course who people are in the inside is more important that how they look. Clearly your frustration is rooted in true feelings of frustration and a desire to find a person who loves you for who you are, so I just want to take a moment to say I empathize and…

You do come off as sneering a bit... but it may be because of the cover image of this article.

You know that feminized shit that women do, with the primping and preening and fashion advice... well may be you don’t because if it is done well it is invisible, and it usually falls into the white noise category of things…

Yes, but Northern Exposure should have just ended when he bailed. I watched it out of order, and for years I thought that magic episode when he goes upriver and finds Manhatten in the fog was the end... rewatched in order and was like DAMN. This show went on for 1.5 seasons longer than it should have.

The only good…

I don’t know if you get me.

You are sneering at the idea of looking your best.

Did you get some objective help with that? With the styling or the photos? There are people who are really good at those things. Do you hate your profile picture? You shouldn’t hate it, friend.

You just wrote how much you do for your kid…

Fun fact: In the late 90s and early aughts I was an MC (big up Toronto Junglist Massive, BRAP BRAP) called Elle V. It started as a joke... but then it stuck. And because of the internet being in it’s infancy, none of it exists online, just in my memory and in notebooks, and in analogue pictures. I didn’t pursue it…

Well, here’s a question for ya: You got people to proof your profile... but did you get help styling yourself and taking the photos?

You know... women love to dress men up. I personally have overseen 3 makeovers. So. Much. Fun. And rewarding.

DOMESTIC TERRORISM.

That is domestic terrorism, folks.

Today is the day I ask myself... Is Sarah ok? Does she have a good support network? A dog?

She looks like this shit might be getting to her.

I used to work on an award-winning animated show as the animatic editor. I was receiving notes from 5 male executives and producers, working closely with the male director, and the male lead writer / punchup guy.

When I first started working on that show, I was told that part of my role would be to help make the three…

Yeah, that’s right. I LIKED MYSELF ONE MORE TIME.

I’m a huge dick and I am fucking hilarious and I do what I want and if you disagree you are a liar / fake news / after that sweet rape victim money (all you have to do is invent a traumatic event INSTEAD of moving forward with your life as planned, let that spin out…

Damn right, Libtards, I liked my own comment.

I re-read it just now and I said to myself: daaaaamn, Hammer. I REALLY like this comment.

Noooo guyyyysss... not Hyde from That 70's Show! Those FUCKING LYING BITCHES are going after HYDE?!

I mean... it really hurts when they try to take the great artists down, you know, those who really enrich our lives with their body of work. I mean, when I think of the guy who played Hyde, I go: “you know? there are…

Two guys, 15% higher than you, AND you had to train them? After your raise was more work and responsability for the same fucking pay, because they couldn’t even do 2%??? That’s fucking galling.

For anyone else doing the math with me, a woman makes a totally logical case for a raise based upon verifiable facts, and is…

As a women I am told that the problem is that I do not negotiate on my own behalf, so this lines up perfectly with my experience of trying to prove my own worth in negotiation: it doesn’t work, because the reasoning of employers is not only sexist, it’s not even logical. I could “prove myself” 5 different ways,…