At least some of those accusations of “predatory” behavior turned out to just be a gay guy complimenting a straight guy on his looks. The idea that gay men simply expressing attraction to straight men — not pursuing them sexually, just saying they’re hot — is predatory is pretty homophobic. For instance, Zara Larsson…

I mean, yeah. That sounds infinitely better than a rapist.

Trump did not call the coronavirus a “hoax”. Here’s what he said:

I completely agree with you about the weirdness (and baselessness) of wanting to present Depp as a blameless victim in this whole affair. He quite clearly has some dangerous violent and abusive tendencies, and a lot of Depp stans and MRA types completely ignore that.

I have no problem with Jezebel concentrating on cases of male domestic violence against women. It is a feminist site, and as you said, this form of domestic violence is the predominant problem. But focusing on cases of male-on-female violence is different from taking a case of mutual violence and making it look like…

These are people dying, for fuck’s sake. Maybe not the best topic for your shitty pseudo-woke humor?

What a weird comment. You’re basically saying, “Strange that when Hillary was saying good stuff that pushed back against Trump, nobody here was telling her to shut up, but now that she’s saying shitty stuff that could hurt the potential Democratic nominee, people are telling her to shut up.” I mean, that’s not strange…

Being troubled about selective abortion of disabled babies does not make one any more of a “forced birther” than being troubled about the selective abortion of female fetuses in certain parts of the world. The issue here isn’t the rights of the unborn fetus, it’s the rights of an already marginalized community that…

All four of these people have been vocally anti-Trump for quite some time now. I know at least a couple of them were anti-Trump since before he became President.

Well, Woody Allen is still alive and profiting from his films, so it makes sense to cancel his work if you don’t want to further enrich (in both wealth and status) someone who is plausibly a predator. MJ is dead and no longer benefits in any form from people consuming his work. So I don’t think the decision to…

Sure, he’s no Darrell Issa, but according to this story Biden had the highest income in 2017 among all the Democratic candidates. He made over 4.5 million. He could surely afford to pay this woman 11k.

Well, she said her belief is “entirely unsubstantiated”, so I don’t think there’s an answer to the “why” question here. Or at least, not one that you would find remotely satisfactory.

Let me help you rationalize your irrational hatred. She’s been accused of sexual harassment by two people. Whether or not those accusations are true, she did display a pretty sickening lack of respect for consent or boundaries when she kissed a kid on national TV despite him explicitly saying he didn’t want to do it.…

You know, I read this article with great anticipation, hoping it would focus on the stories of suffering and resilience of the women victimized by powerful men. Instead, I was disappointed to find, the article was mostly about how the author feels about some book she read. Is that really the most important thing to be…

The most prominent TERFs are not right-wing conservatives by any reasonable definition, though. Right-wing conservatives don’t argue for lesbian separatism or decry marriage as a patriarchal institution the way Janice Raymond or Julie Bindel do. It’s important to acknowledge that transphobia doesn’t only stem from…

There is very little that is as cringe-inducing as white women ostentatiously “YAS-QUEEN”ing Beyonce, even if it is semi-ironic in intent.

Lizzo’s apology doesn’t seem all that great to me, primarily because she doesn’t acknowledge that the delivery driver didn’t actually steal her food. If you go to her Twitter replies, there are still a bunch of irate fans saying that Lizzo doesn’t need to apologize to a thief. I wouldn’t be surprised if the driver…

This donation seems like him pretty clearly saying “This is what I’m about, and this isn’t what I am about.”

OK, I’m still not convinced this is a bad thing. I mean, the lying and lack of transparency is a bad thing, of course, but I’m not convinced that taking money from Epstein was wrong. As far as I can tell, the MIT Media Lab does good, important, innovative work for the most part, and it’s a net positive for society…

Given the number of gay men in positions of power who have also turned out to be serial abusers, I don’t think the “cishet” qualifier is necessary here.