I appreciate that your username foreshadows the level of intellect on display in your comment.

Making the woman uncomfortable is probably part of it - asserting dominance, transgressing their boundaries. That, and exhibitionism. I don’t believe for a second that these guys think “I bet these virtual strangers want to watch me jack off.”

not really about sex

Thank you. The fucking comments on the Louis CK story have been awful for so long because of those people.

They also owe Tig Notaro an apology for calling her “ungrateful” and shit for daring to speak out about this.

So, all the bros who spent the last few months screaming at Katie Rife for daring to talk about this and INSISTING THAT THERE WAS NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT until some accusers came forward and until then this was just a plot by mean ol’ Jezebel and AV Club to smear poor Louie...

He’s trying to undermine the press. He tells everyone that he is infallible and only his opinion matters. He acts without consulting advisers. He calls for violence against opponents. He wants to jail rivals.

He said there were good pe0ple in a crowd of Nazis, numbnuts.

Counterpoint: You’re wrong, and also it’s his most fully realized, most enduring, and most popular work.

He may not have called them bitches, but he sure as hell didn’t respect them. I will never understand the Hefner apologists - it is no coincidence that Cosby and Hefner were best buddies and at least one of the Cosby rapes happened at the Playboy Mansion.

If literally any other man did this, would we applaud him for being an ‘icon’?

THIS. He took objectification of women to the next level, in a society where that was already the accepted norm.

I will never understand this dude’s popularity with women. The man basically kept a creepy babe-zoo in his house and only supported ‘women’s empowerment’ as long as it fit his idea of women being naked and not being ~prudes~ about it. If literally any other man did this, would we applaud him for being an ‘icon’?

You’re the same person who said James Wood is an actual genius.

Climb out of your own ass. No one who uses “virtue signaling” in conversation is worth listening to.

do you guys even know what virtue signaling means anymore

lol, you know the episode was making fun of people like that?

Oh fuck off with your “virtue signaling” right-wing shibboleth

“Gotta love the irony of a show that became famous by taking on all targets and never holding back, now intentionally holding itself back and refusing to take on a target”

Honestly, I don’t want them to “take on Trump”. Every single thing is about Trump these days, and it gets boring. I think this episode was smart because it punched some holes into ideas that the right wingers have accepted as truth, but without necessarily insulting their king. This way they may have to defend the…