I can’t tell if my comment posted, so sorry if it’s here twice.

This “it was just a clumsy attempt at a relationship” excuse enrages me for so many reasons, not the least of which is that is basically says that women are too stupid to know the difference between an invitation on a date and sexual harassment. As if the two things are sooooo similar they can be easily confused with…

See, this is the problem with people like him. He writes one decent book, for which he/his cowriter did good reporting for. The strength of the book is the shoe-leather reporting - they basically got a ton of influential people from the campaigns to sit down and give them all the inside dirt.

Oh yeah, many men will be hostile & blame women, because really they don’t see an issue with what happened. Some people believe that’s the price we pay for being born female. So the rest of us have to keep speaking up and fighting. It’s enraging.

Lisa Bloom and Kathy Griffin were just in the news with a kerfuffle about Kathy Griffin not sticking to her script at a press conference. If lawyers wrote a script for someone who talks for a living, I don’t know why it’s shocking that they’d prepare a statement for a teenage client who’s clearly going through a lot?

Dressing for attention? You mean like when men take off their shirt in the middle of summer because it’s so hot and they run around with a bare torso? And somehow they are NEVER catcalled, groped or harassed? Or when men used to wear their shorts/pants very low so that you could see their underwear (because it was…

Totally a long con. We had a long discussion about you at the 9/4/2003 Elders of Zion meeting. Sorry about that, friend.

Clearly Mayim was off-base on what she said. I did find the contrroversy interesting when you look at the intersection of her overall belief set (within the Orthodox Judiasm spectrum, yes, but on the liberal side) whereas her beliefs on tzniut (modesty) seem to fall within a much more right-wing mindset.

It’s bullshit and untrue.

If QT is an enabler, then so are all the people who knew about it, victims,witnesses, assistants and boyfriends who were told, because the bottom line is they all kept quiet to keep their careers and they’re all got paid. The people who spoke to R.Farrow were committing  career suicide as far as they knew, let’s not…

True enough but when you get to the bottom of it, everyone in Hollywood had the same excuse. Tarantino is no Steven Speilberg, he’s only as valuable as his latest box office results and those are dependant on getting a movie made. He stood to lose his career every bit as much as an actor or makeup artist. If we say he…

I did gymnastics and tumbling for years as a competitive cheerleader. Some of the things the instructor did were hands down harder.

If it wasn’t for ‘strippers in a club’ this whole shit show wouldn’t exist. A little respect for the ‘strippers in a club’ wouldn’t be undue here.

Competitive pole dancers are some of the most impressive athletes out there. Not only do you need a strong upper and lower body, but you also need to perform intricate moves in such a way that it appears easy. Perhaps you are thinking of strippers in a club, but I encourage you to watch actual competitions.

Exactly. We don’t need to make up reasons to be annoyed by Gwyneth and her Goopiness.

I kind of love this a lot. The Goop annoys me to no end, but it seems like she was actually vocal about HW’s skeeziness and the Op-Ed was unwarranted. If you withdraw from a movie, you only ruin your own career. And frankly Goop was born to play Emma. Anyway, getting a letter from her mother must make Dowd feel…

Ha! I’ve had that experience. There was a girl in high school who I thought was absolutely vile, she was very evangelical christian and would say things like “Jews go to hell” and I always thought she didn’t really want friends, she loved the movie clueless and wanted to be a queen bee Cher. We were in a lot of the…

I’ve been WAITING for y’all to get to this story.

The ovaries want what they want, man.

It is really common for bullies to not remember what they have done because it doesn’t mean anything to them. They were “just having fun” and weren’t the one who was traumatized. I have read several accounts of people who confronted their high school or junior high tormentors, and the people often don’t even remember…