I feel clueless, this is new to me.

(lol I’m clearly much less refined than most of the guys here http://theslot.jezebel.com/1820866096 )

And of course the old standby. https://kamakazirock.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-poon

Occasionally, about as much as dick, and usually both in their derogatory senses (calling someone being timid a pussy, abrasive a dick).

Yeah there was definitely a thing, I don’t know how to describe it - not a ritual, nothing formal like that, undefined but rigid nonetheless - about how women were supposed to act in these spaces they’d just been granted access too. Like it was a provisional grant or you were all on a probation that could be revoked…

Funny, I happened to see this comment the thread to your reply to me. I used to read Heimel’s “Women” column in Playboy back in the 80s. As someone just entering adulthood, her neither-fish-nor-fowl style (not explicitly/conventionally feminist but not in the Cosmo-sphere either) made her thoughts on sex,…

Yup. The Greens are a farce, a parody of a political party. They run vanity candidates and silly campaigns, and god damn I’m ready to vote for them just to get a fucking message past the Democrats’ “where else you gonna go, libs?” complacency.

[actual lol]

That is really fucking great.

Yeah we need a mini-reckoning for the antediluvian wagon-circling, victim blaming and rationalizing that this whole episode has brought out. Total bullshit.

What right-leaning voter who’s concerned about sexual harassment/assault is going to look at Democrats and say, yeah they’re really handling this differently than Republicans I think I’ll vote for them!

People could also protest his public appearances, constituents could demand town hall events, tell him he no longer has their confidence at them and ask him to resign etc. There’s no reason he has to wait until his term is up to feel consequences.

Yes, the difference in how the Democrats circled the wagons vs. other organizations taking action is extremely telling. And for anyone tempted to butroymoore this, we shouldn’t look to the Republican base in Alabama as our ethical compass.

There’s no upside to defending him, and fuck anyone who goes on about purity or self-righteousness. Franken needs to resign now. Or Democrats can just admit they don’t give a shit about sexual assault when one of their own does it.

GOD DAMN THERE IS NO UPSIDE TO STICKING WITH THIS MOTHERFUCKER https://theslot.jezebel.com/new-england-elected-official-says-al-franken-tried-to-g-1820849687

Hey dummy maybe you could spare some of your concern for theoretical men having their lives ruined by future false accusations for the multitude of women who’ve already had their lives ruined by sexual assault.

lol I guess it didn’t scratch the itch.

Hey alright you used the word, hope that scratched the itch.

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…