Blacks can use it if they like, it’s a dehumanizing slur that they are reclaiming. That’s fine. If they use it in a song, that’s fine. If that song becomes a hit, non-blacks don’t get a pass to use it because it’s in the lyrics. If you’re not black, never say it. That doesn’t strike me as terribly oppressive.

“Women don’t lie” is a strawman, and it’s starting to seem like you’re deliberately missing the point that’s been made over and over and over and over again: The extremely tangible legal, professional and personal personal hazards attached to making an accusation of sexual harassment/assault should greatly militate…

Yeah she’s definitely got more class than me.

I mean, something IS happening and things ARE different. There’s no question that men who were previously immune from consequences now are. It’s a big story this year, maybe the biggest one, and real progress has been made. But god damn it sure doesn’t look like any of that progress has reached Washington. I’ve seen…

Hazel, this is exactly the kind of news story I needed to see as the day draws to a close.

Still waiting on consequences for pols. I think Franken is the acid test for The Reckoning because the reaction so far has been a very 90's-esque cycle of wagon circling, victim-blaming and rationalization.

Season 2 of The Reckoning is gonna be something else.

And it’s also, you know, presumptively believing an accuser an individually held opinion and not a felony conviction.

I missed the part where she called for executions.

Also did people see Garrison Keller Prarie Home Companion was fired ?

That dawning “shit is going down and not in the good way I expected” moment is *kisses fingers*

to say every woman should be believed instantly and unquestioningly, no matter what

Yes but since there are an infinite number of universes then there exists one where Matt Lauer is a perfect gentleman whose good name has been besmirched by false accusations DID YOU EVER SPARE A THOUGHT FOR ALTERNATE UNIVERSE MATT LAUER, JENNIFER?

Yes.

Or they’ll work extra hard to bury claims so they can stay on the list etc. Perverse incentives out the wazoo on this one.

Passively tracks a basket of assets like an indexed mutual fund (think of like an S&P 500 index fund - holds all S&P 500 companies with equal weight, re-adjusted periodically as their market caps change), but trades like an individual stock (hence the WOMN ticker).

It’s an ETF, which means someone’s looking to make a buck off it. Reminds me of that “when your skin is viral content” piece yesterday - make a buck off it if you want I suppose, but don’t act like it’s some kind of philanthropic enterprise.

Late stage capitalism will surely make an important and lasting contribution to this issue, I’m so glad Wall Street finally weighed in.

I thought Guthrie handled the announcement really well.  

thats crazy talk