I believe the CoS would do this, absolutely.

My roommate is an ex-Scientologist. Trust me, they would DEFINITELY stoop this low to smear their perceived enemies. They are PURE EVIL.

Yeah, this is a pretty...unique situation.

They build entire websites making false accusations against former member who speak out about them. Seizing the moment of Women vs. Hollywood in this case against Haggis surprises literally no one who pays attention to CoS and their misdeeds.

I knowwwwwww... I feel torn too. This feels like the kind of thing they would take the opportunity to exploit. I don’t know what to think. CoS would go that low.

I don’t want to get into the business of questioning accusers’ stories (as has been happening since time immemorial).

This is correct.

It sounds like his way to offer an apology for misconduct he knows he committed, but doesn’t want to specifically identify. Like, he wants to apologize for not being noble enough to refuse to participate in a consensual relationship at a time when she may have been too vulnerable because she was recovering from…

They gave Polanski a standing ovation. Do you really need to go much further?

“My wife’s Spidey -sense has always tingled about this guy being a creep.”

You have a point, but that’s no excuse for being shitty to younger women. I’m pushing 70, and always had a big mouth about harassment, as far back as the late 60's. I’m sure some women felt they needed to shut up, but a lot of us refused to do that. (Some of us can thank our own mothers, who spoke out about the same…

Older women are (generally speaking) the enforcers of the status quo as opposed to the agents of change. So much of my childhood was dealing with older women who thought I wasn’t “girly enough” and then old hippie women who thought I wasn’t “feminist enough.” The phrase “Can I live?” was invented for them.

French women are cool girls who don’t care about infidelity.

I want to just say an extra fuck the congregation who still goes to this fucking mega church.

I’m a Christian in the sense that I’m a follower of Jesus, but there’s a reason I haven’t set foot in a church in several years. The rank hypocrisy in many churches is too much for me to handle and the hateful words coming from the pulpit are too far at odds with what Jesus ever would have said.

Watch, this is going to be the beginning of another reckoning. I grew up evangelical, and have a lot of friends and family who have also pulled away from that environment, and we’ve all been waiting for the first high profile expose to come down... And here it is.

Even last year an old dude at a party touched my breast (twice, so you know it wasn’t an accident) and when I talked about it, I was essentially told to ignore it, he’s just an old man and why start drama over a non-event.

Yes. I sit amongst women 10-20 years older than me (at least). All white, all upper middle class and all scoffed at me when I said it was a disgrace none of the men who won at the Globes addressed their colleagues, who were engaged in a protest in that very room. “Why should they?”

i mean, i WISH our biggest problem right now was men being too gentlemanly....idgaf if a guy holds a door open for me. heck, there’s a gas station by my house...i dont think i have ever touched the door handle. somebody always gets it for me, and i say thank you. that’s definitely not what i’m outraged about.

“... hurt by the ripple effect of the consequences of that sin.”