I’ve given this some thought, and I disagree. I think rumours and allegations about things like sexual abuse should be taken *more* seriously, and people making allegations should be given the benefit of the doubt.
I’ve given this some thought, and I disagree. I think rumours and allegations about things like sexual abuse should be taken *more* seriously, and people making allegations should be given the benefit of the doubt.
So you’re being willfully obtuse? Ok, let me clear it up.
Oh! the irony of using “witch hunt” in this context! Yes, let us use this term whose etymology is rooted in a hugely misogynist and patriarchal period of our country’s past when women and girls were accused for going out of step of strict gender roles to describe the actions of when men are accused of upholding strict…
Even with her mental health/substance abuse issues, Courtney Love behaves a lot better than a lot of men in Hollywood.
Now, don’t be disgusting.
Name three women who could get away with what Weinstein, Roger Ailes, and Bills O’Reilly and Cosby got away with for decades.
Can you please SHUT THE FUCK UP and let women talk about what they know and live?
Fucking hell, at this point it’s like “Of course he did”. And yet, god, imagine working up the nerve to finally speak out about this only to have it disappear into a tsunami of other people telling about the same shit that happened to them.
Oliver Stone was my next door neighbor for a short while. I was in the alley playing basketball with his son, when he and a friend came outside. He and his friend (both adult men) then informed me that girls couldn’t play sports, etc. and basically berated me for being a woman. I was 12.
This is starting to feel like The Purge: Harrassers. I welcome this newfound sense that women feel they can publicly name names during this surreal window of time.
Oh fuck you’re another one of those cunts
Under Disqus the troll who gets the rise out of the most people doesn’t get top billing.
The AV Club chooses not to acknowledge its own failings. Hence, why we have Kinja and why we have ShaBoomBoomRoom “not defending” that guy by way of totally defending him.
The comments section of this site is fucking garbage and AV Club should be ashamed of what they’ve become.
The old AVClub would’ve had around 1,000 comments by now. Sad to see things the way they are now.
For the umpteenth time, there is no functional difference between being racist “for the lulz” and actually being a racist.
Being forced out of the company that bears your name... That must hurt. Which is good.
Then your state is gross? Is it that hard to figure out?
I completely believe you’re genuinely concerned with teenage women’s right to have sex with grown men and not angry because you don’t like being told that your own fantasies are gross and creepy.