A large part of the conservative base wants this, because “free market.” They want poors to be priced out of the market and die, so they can feel better about the privileges their own hard work grants them. They’re fucking monsters, and they justify their monstrosity with proclamations of “think of the the money it…

Trump would cut off his own face to spite Obama’s legacy.

So incredibly angry right now, I don’t have the words. This all could have been avoided. You hit the nail on the head. People didn’t vote. People decided Trump and Clinton were the same. Clinton didn’t “earn” their vote. This the result.

These FUCKERS. This is the first year I need to go on the goddamn exchanges and they roll this out just before the 2018 signups? And that means insurers can pull out?

I think middle-aged men see Trump as the living personification of their own stupider moments, which they don’t want to be held accountable for, so they defend him as a pre-emptive move to excuse their own behavior.

Me neither. This is how men in power who see women as nothing but objects impact not just all the women they work with and harass personally but all women who want to see stories that speak to them.

Posted on AV Club about this but am grey there — This is the jackass who cancelled Good Girls Revolt in spite of acclaim, ratings, etc. He just didn’t like it so! They should have fired him then because that is just idiotic management to dump the biggest breakout, talked-about show they had in that season because…

“The problem is that they’re being underpaid, and they’re not likely to get firefighting work once they’re out.”

Most Californians don’t think twice about inmate firefighters until one dies.

Considering that women are expected to spend hundreds of dollars and hours in makeup, hairstyling, personal trainers, wardrobe selection, body-hair maintenance, perky bras, etc., it doesn’t seem too much to expect that guys (especially those who are trying to attract women) at least attempt to tuck in their shirts.…

Why would someone go to her past interviews and try to dig up something to make her look bad or enabling?

Reading some of these stories reminded me on the essay in the UTNE READER decades ago, about how it would be easier to convict a man of exposing himself than committing rape. If you just tell the cops, “he flashed me and played with himself” nobody gets to ask you what you were wearing, was this a shakedown, etc.…

My mother went to American University in Beirut for medical school in the early 90s. There was one associate dean (who had been working there for nearly 20 years and was basically a legend in his field) who only invited female students to his house on weekends/holidays for dinner. Everyone just said it was his way of…

“In September 2009, Weinstein publicly voiced opposition to efforts to extradite Roman Polanski from Switzerland to the U.S. regarding a 1977 charge that he had drugged and raped a 13-year-old, to which Polanski had pleaded guilty before fleeing the country.^[22] Weinstein, whose company had distributed a film about…

It’s not by a long shot. His M.O. is painfully familiar to anyone who’s done any work with sexual harassment law. This is textbook quid pro quo harassment, and you see the same pattern over and over: powerful men taking advantage of usually younger women who aren’t in a good position to resist or fight back. Getting…

That audio is so so icky. It immediately made me tense up and get anxious. Because most of us have been there. Not in that exact situation, but in a position where we’re uncomfortable and scared and having no idea how to proceed when confronted with someone who is more powerful in every way. The questions in your head…

I just finished reading the New Yorker article, which is horrific, and listening to the audio, which chills my blood. I don’t want to listen to it again but he insists that she comes into his hotel room at least 15 times, doesn’t he? And then makes her the bad guy because SHE’S the one making the scene and SHE’s…

I just read the New Yorker piece, and the common thread from everyone interviewed was how dirty and ashamed all the women felt. And that’s in their own head with the story NOT front page news. It takes a really strong person to want to tell that kind of story and have that kind of feeling publicly.

As you say, these men are running the world. What good does it do to speak up, in most cases?

For each of these women who has spoken up, I fear there are hundreds who haven’t. The description that fear turns him on is bone chilling. I would wager that he has raped many women.