The White House has said that rescinding the medal is unprecedented. Then again, prior award-winning criminals either had no victims (e.g., they used illegal drugs for fun) or they had so many thousands of anonymous victims that there were never any formal complaints (e.g., they bombed civilians on another continent,…

Senators doing pointless things for show? Pshaw. Surely, you jest.

How about they focus on getting rid of the statue of limitations on rape. Taking away this award is pointless.

maybe this will get people to stop pudding him on a pedestal

Leaving a pre-emptive comment to let salty people know

In Dubai I see my middle school girls students reading Malala’s biography all the time. This is their hero. This is the girl that took a bullet to the head that she didn’t have to when she stood up on that bus and said, “I am Malala, who is asking?” to the cowards who came to kill her. She stood up, at 15 years…

God, you go girl. Keep on rocking.

It’s one thing to defend a loved one but it’s another thing to defend a loved one after 40 women accused them of being a rapist and then you turn around and say they’re lying and that what happened was consensual. There’s no doubt in my mind that I would stop supporting a loved one if that many people accused them of…

The horrifying truths:

I don’t. We don’t like to acknowledge that evil isn’t obviously evil 100% of the time because it doesn’t fit with the black and white way our brains are designed to view the world, but that doesn’t make it less true. It is entirely possible—and even likely—that he never did any of that stuff at home, purely exercising…

Doesn’t this kind of make you wonder what’s been happening in their marriage? Some of his heinous behavior must spill over into their marriage. Abuse? Non-consensual sex? Drug use? I find it impossible to imagine that they’re living a 1950s-’Leave it to Beaver’-esq lifestyle while this is going on.

I feel guilty when reading fiction these days (as opposed to reading for academic work or legitimately fucking around — pleasure reading feels too in-between) so, I won’t be reading it either.

Yeah, I can buy that, especially since we were previously introduced to him from the perspective of his daughter. There’s probably some distance between how Scout saw her father and an objective view of him.

This. I think people confuse movie-Atticus (all honor, integrity, fathering, and Gregory Peck’s good looks) with book-Atticus, who was not quite as heroic, even though he was doing what was right.

I always read Atticus Finch as a classist pragmatist who had sympathy for One of the Good Ones — never as an anti-racist or a through-and-through crusader for equality.

Oh and Philip Seymour Hoffman was always lovely and couldn't give two fucks what he looked like. He seemed to own an endless supply of stained tshirts, but he was always polite and gracious.

The NRA will use this to say background checks are ineffective and don't matter. What should really happen is the background check system needs to be made stronger, and more reliable.

Filed to: DAMN I WISH I WAS YOUR MOMMY. This is everything.