Per her account, she did not communicate an objection to the kiss. She merely planned to not cooperate during the performance. I am speaking as a performer now, but that is a shitty way to handle it. Franken may have been pressuring her, but IMHO, what he was pressuring her for was totally reasonable. A rehearsal is a…

I am so beyond caring what people who are arguing in bad faith think. Also, because people sometimes use an argument insincerely does not mean it is always wrong to use it sincerely.

My core principles do not include needing to fire every person who has ever used another as a sexual prop in the manner you are defining it. I don’t agree that is a core principal of feminism or the progressive movement or of the Democratic party of the #metoo moment either.

Sen. Byrd is a famous example of this, too. People do change and the ones who change can do great work as atonement or simply as part of their growth.

I think there is a real question here about what it means to hold our own accountable. The grim truth is that it is not possible to fire every man who has ever made a sexist joke or done a forcible kiss or equivalent. It would be a better world if it were, but it’s not. So we’re going to have erratic justice no matter…

That is not analagous to a Kevler vest. This is getting ridiculous to the point where I have to think some of y’all are just trolls.

Except the women talking about Moore are multiple and generally Trump voters, so that’s an incoherent claim.

Al Franken is not being given a pass. At most, what he is being given is recognition that all crimes that can be grouped into the same kind of bucket are not crimes to the same degree. Multiple people have testified that Moore has a pattern of preying on underage girls. That is very different from what is currently a…

It doesn’t look like he’s actually touching her breasts in the picture. One of his hands is clearly cupping the air, at most touching above. The angle makes it hard to see fore sure about the other.

But I think we do have to think through and question what it means to hold someone accountable. And I really don’t know the answer to that for myself personally much less what it should be broadly. I don’t think Sen. Franken should resign. I also don’t think all of the good that he has done should be discarded as…

The article didn’t do a great job tying everything together, but the important detail is “ where users went to the trouble of editing the face of Bethany’s ex out of the roughly seven images, but also adding “a screenshot of my Facebook page, my full name”

If you think it was Hillary Clinton’s responsibility to never ever say anything that could be intentionally twisted and misrepresented the entire time she was on the campaign trail, you keep on with your bad self. As I said multiple times already, I disagree with that premise. I think that is an impossible demand and…

And again, that is on the media for intentionally mischaracterizing Hillary’s speech, not Hillary for speaking clearly. It is also on anti-Hillary Democratic voters, who thought criticizing Hillary was more important than getting her elected and defeating Trump.

I disagree with this. Trump’s base never stopped being invigorated, and Trump was already using the us/them narrative. Hillary’s not responsible for the media (IMHO, deliberately) misrepresenting what she actually said. Her speech included a literal call for empathy for the non-deplorable Trump voters (“Those are…

No, it wasn’t. I’m going to assume you’ve read the actual speech she gave. “Basket of deplorables” was an out for Trump-inclined voters. It was a way to acknowledge the racism, xenophobia, sexism, etc. that was blatant and impossible to miss, but the speech then went on to literally call for empathy for the Trump…

You did not answer the question.

Also, he’s not the only authoritarian narcissist idiot with a lot of power on the world stage. I don’t know as much as I probably should about either Abe or Jinping, but assuming they’ve had to scheme their way into power, they’ve dealt with many a Trump type before.

I won’t click through to Breitbart... did Moore actually admit to dates with the teens? Or was that Breitbart attempting to do the “this isn’t true, but if it were true it wouldn’t be bad” thing?

I have believed for a long time that fundamentalism in all religion thrives because of this type of hypocrisy. These men are…

Do you at least actually model? Or do you just like talking crap?

Good to know how easy it is to do should I ever need to be excessively petty. :)