This is one of my pet peeves because there are multiple instances of widespread coverups of male rape, particularly male rape of boys and teens. Think of the Catholic church scandals and Sandusky. It may be easier for some men to be believed—I think Rapp’s influenced things more than McGowan’s helped her—but reality…

It’s too soon to say, but we do know factually that many of the men currently being dethroned targeted women (off the top of my head: Weinstein, Tobeck, Lauer, Keillor, Louis CK, DC editor guy, New Republic editor guy). So there’s more to the difference between Masterson and Spacey than simply the gender of who they…

That was my first thought, too

I don’t disagree with that completely; I’m just not sure what it has to do with the comments I actually made given that all I did was point out that false accusations really have been reported due to reporters’ thirstiness.

If your point is that reporters shouldn’t care about fact checking because who cares about the…

IMHO, a woke apology for rape would be letting the survivors of his rape decide whether he should submit himself to the legal system for punishment or perform alternative penance. This is stepping down with all of his riches and privileges undisturbed and the same wishy-washy language we’ve seen all over these…

It’s depressing. With all of her connections and clout, he still wasn’t afraid of her.

PV is a distraction and not worth seriously talking about except as a reason to be particularly careful about non-critically believing accounts that come from the right-wing.

As for the rest of your comment, I honestly have no idea how it’s connected to anything I wrote or even really, the broader discussion. Concerns…

Tweeden has a photo of him not touching her, though. He’s miming, not doing.

Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Washington Post catching PV is proof that PV was utterly wrong. I would say that it’s more that Washington Post had good fact checkers. Rolling Stone, by contrast, WAS too thirsty and didn’t effectively verify for Erdely’s UVA story, and that did blow up in their faces. (although I…

Yes! I love that wording.

There’s a lot of harassment in theater.

Articles like this are why I need to find another women’s centered site that isn’t Jezebel. I have a lot of fangirl fondness for Naya Rivera because of Santana. I am sad to see the downward spiral she’s been on.

But that doesn’t mean I won’t or shouldn’t recognize how serious her actions are! I hope for her child’s…

Isn’t it only Salling and Rivera? Lea Michele’s reputation is mixed, but the only concrete things that seems to be attached to that is she likes to take scantily clad pictures; she’s standoffish with castmates (possibly for good reason); and she considers herself a talented singer and actress (definitely for good…

If the behind the scenes stuff is accurate, Monteith was sober for multiple years before he relapsed.

Did Jezebel start identifying as a feminist website? Because it used to explicitly identify as a website for women but not a feminist website. Jezebel’s also always been trash at walking the walk, although to be fair to them, I can’t think of any Internet-based media that is truly good at that. (well, small, niche…

The idea that Jon Stewart knew is based on the fact that a random student asked Stewart a question about the rumors in a Q&A session a year ago. Somehow that gets translated into Stewart being told about it, ignoring that it is completely normal for people not to put much weight in random, unsourced rumors.

The…

But Jezebel has implied or outright stated that other people who claimed not to know are lying because they would have to have known. But the truth is that blind items and Whisper Networks always leave people out—and not always the people you’d expect. Also, hearing unsourced rumors isn’t the same thing as actually…

Have low expectations for Jezebel. They do that kind of crap all the time. I actually think their irresponsible misreporting of what Jen Kirkman did/didn’t say about Louis C.K. helped provide him cover. It was certainly a good exhibit A in why people are reluctant to fire over blind items and rumors.

Yeah, I feel like the full implication of her statement is being underreported.