I agree that calling him a predator seems inaccurate and I do think this requires a more nuanced conversation about how men and women go about interacting in sexual and romantic situations.

This is a reasonable take. Aziz would be pretty damn near 100% at fault in this situation for being a fucking clueless boar, but I’m certainly teaching my daughter not to put up with ANY shit remotely near what he pulled. Loudly and clearly and insistently and, if necessary, violently.

This is the best most reasonable comment I have read on the matter. At no point did she say no, stop, or try to leave. She said it with “body language” even tho she thought it was cool to hang out nude all night. May want to be a little more clear before you say you were assaulted.

Why isn’t the conversation that men need to learn not to take advantage of people’s obvious discomfort

Fuck politeness, as my favorite podcast hosts say! SSDGM

His behavior is shitty. So wouldn’t empower women to say “your behavior is shitty” be a valuable thing to do? You’re not going to convince 100% of guys to be non-shitty. You’ll be lucky to get 85%.

This.

She also expressed her feelings to him the next day. He heard her out and apologized. I see no reason to doubt the sincerity of his apology. His statement on the matter affirms that he took her words to heart.

While I am careful about putting obligations on the part of a woman to not be assaulted, THIS needed to be said. Women are (WILD GENERALIZATION COMING) often eager to please and slow to disappoint. It did not appear that she could not have left, or that she would be facing some negative consequences of telling Ansari…

Times a billion

This x100.

This was a bad date. She had a horrible date with a clueless guy who thought he was being sexy and hot. She was made to feel uncomfortable, and it wasn’t right.

That heliotrope satin skirt and her boyfriend’s (husband’s?) shirt, secured with a vintage brooch was like...BOOM. And that hair? Don’t get me started.

Sharon Stone is also certifiably brilliant—like Mensa member smart. She was basically walking, talking, reading and hailing cabs from the womb. So bringing that level of brainpower into a swamp of fetid, basically-but-no-more-than functional men running everything? Nuclear fusion.

She was always stunning, and is still stunning, and a large part of that is because she wasn’t shamed into thinking she needed to jack her face up with surgery.

Probably an unpopular opinion here, but by him asking the stupid question, Cowan here is the stand-in for the clueless male viewer - and thus elicits the clip-worthy (and meme-worthy) cackling response from Stone. Let’s face it: if the dumb question did not receive such a glorious reaction, we wouldn’t be reminded…

She could fill a book with disgusting stories. I’d love to hear how she told these scumbags off throughout her life. And, on a shallow note, I LOVE her hair, her sweater, her amazing face—everything about her look right now is fire.

Sharon Stone is a gift we don’t deserve. That cozy sweater, on the other hand, is a gift I do deserve.

Ode to My Family is such a great song. I contribute Promises as another great one.

I was thirteen when Zombie came out and I wanted to cut and bleach my hair like her in the video but my mom and boyfriend talked me out of it. I’m tempted to go do it today. I loved her.