That the guy was capable of awful behavior toward women doesn’t invalidate the ideas he advocated: civil rights, reproductive rights, gay and trans rights, etc. You don’t have a recording of the “I have a dream” speech without Bill Cosby, who is a rapist. Is it your idea that people are incapable of more than one…

GENIUS, he had a privileged, wealthy lifestyle and LITERALLY had nothing to lose. He wasn’t breaking any laws, he wasn’t going to lose business, and he wasn’t alienating anyone except for the conservative Americans that wanted nothing to do with him anyways. You’re a damn fool. Work on your personality, educate…

Look, you selfish pathetic POS. He didn’t just hire women to pose in his magazines. He created an entire CONTRACTED lifestyle that YOUNG WOMEN entered into, and by witness accounts (men who worked for him and some of the women playmates themselves) he endangered and abused many of those women. At the very least he…

Yeah! And I heard Mussolini made the trains run on time.

And why should you, big guy? He didn’t hurt your mother, wife, sister or daughter. Just other peoples’—and that’s their problem. Their women were sluts.

I really don’t understand why everyone lauds him so much for that. If a woman created a magazine full of naked men that included articles by great writers, people would be furious — how dare she publish all this great journalism and fiction in a place where no one can read it without having to look at pages full of…

Really? Did he risk injury and death as the civil rights marchers did? Did he risk being ostracized so completely that he was fired and couldn’t find a job? No, even then he was buttressed by white male protestant privilege from any real risks. His lack of risk taking is exemplified by the lack of any notable harm…

Here’s how that worked: “Go to the mansion and you’ll be able to model and maybe you’ll get a career or a centerfold. It’s opportunity! You’ll be a star, maybe!” That would be the Modeling Agency, aka procurer. How do I know this? I modeled in the late 80s and 90s in Chicago. the number of times I was told to show up…

Well, it’s true society likes to simplify things. People like Joe Paterno and Bill Cosby were deified and that gave them license to act like monsters. I don’t see any redeeming qualities to Hefner or his legacy. Same with Donald Rumsfeld. But who knows, if we have 3+ more years of Trump my standards may change.

I keep reading gross things about Hugh Hefner this week (none of which really surprise me but weren’t necessarily anything I sought out before) —and without fail, there will be a ton of dudes in the comments section talking about how he was great and did SO MUCH for women and how women need to “get over” all the…

The problem isn’t in “indoctrination”, as I see it. It’s in “normalization”. Particularly when we consider that the problems within our culture that created the KKK haven’t gone away (nor has the actual KKK).

Also, it’s completely unnecessary to point out to teenagers that boobs can be attractive.  

I was raised Catholic, and I look at how much volunteer work my mother does for her church. She and about four other women single-handedly coordinate and implement 90% of that church’s charitable work. They’re volunteers. They get paid nothing. Yet her church brings in $45,000+ a week just through their collection…

I wish I’d scrolled before commenting. I said the same about the family of six. And you are far more eloquent.

I have a similar reaction when people humblebrag about how they were “blessed” with whatever good fortune came their way, from the major to the trivial. So you think God reached down and “blessed” you with a great weekend or a parking space or a new job or whatever while millions of people are suffering in the world?…

“God’s got this.”

These ladies make their own rules.

Congrats! I always get exited thinking about baby blankets to be made when someone announces a pregnancy. Know that I have many hypothetical afghan ideas bouncing around in my head right now.

“Maybe I have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist, smiling all the while, determined to present a composed face to the world.”

She may not have been technically correct, but it’s not as if her overall point of the lack of Asian representation on SNL is wrong. The only two cast members with Asian heritage are not people most people would even know were Asian if they didn’t ready their wiki bio (Fred Armisen who is a quarter Japanese and Rob…