Not really? I don’t know Schultz’s actual orientation and alignment and neither matter in the scheme of things, but her story does go to show that the patterns of abuse directed at and against women are not (a) unique to men or (b) primarily about sexual fulfillment. They’re about wielding power, letting off steam at…

Every single male celebrity or power-player accused of abuse who has deigned to acknowledge those accusations has inserted his sad feelings and regret (at getting caught or outed) into the narrative, along with his daughter-owning, his sister-adjaceny, his having-once-been-inside-uterus-ness. Quoting the person and…

They also always promise that these guys are terrible and will get punished one day and they never do. Draper got to reach enlightenment and made more ads. Walter White got to save everybody and die on his own terms. In both cases we’re told these guys aren’t heroes and all the bad fans getting it wrong. And then…

In this specific kind of harassment case, I think it’s that certain men need women in “slots”: the writer professional who is his equal and the assistant professional who is his underling. When she co-won that Emmy he was threatened by her moving up, as though it was pushing him out of power. So he belittled and hurt…

By referring to her as an assistant, he’s diminishing her. He’s showing that she’s insignificant. Similarly, in a lot of cases, famous men will refer to “that woman” or “that person” instead of by name. It’s a way of relegating her to the sidelines; an unimportant person with no identity. Remember when Bill Clinton…

I wish I felt surprised but Mad Men is a show that knows a lot about how a man who believes that he truly likes some specific women and thinks of those specific women as worthy and possibly even equals still constantly abuses his power over women.

Someone with a Mad Men DVD or Blu Ray check the commentary on the episode in which Peggy and Stan(?) get naked and work together in a hotel room. (Looked it up. Season four, episode six.) I remember the person on the commentary saying this “happened to a friend.”

I’m not surprised. He never seemed to respect any of the women who acted on the show. I will have to see if I can find it but Christina Hendricks said in an interview that he would give her directions on basic things that any actor can do. She told him he didn’t need to write those things out for her and he said he…

13-17 year olds don’t have a completely developed emotional system for dealing with relationships. That’s why we have laws to protect them from adult predators. She’s coming from a fucked up place, but she got into it as a child, and couldn’t figure out how to get out of it as an adult.

All I took from that video was that he learned ugly chicks are people too. Congratulations?

This! I really liked the movie Age of Adeline, but there are whole scenes with the male romantic lead being really creepy, abusive and awful.

Sad that every woman has a story like this! I can think back to “fucked up shit said to me when I was 14 I didn’t realize at the time” too. I had a golfing couch tell me he wish he could marry me and that I was the perfect girl but it’s even sadder when I look back on it as an adult and realize it was because I was…

That is definitely worse, to me. Only once did someone tweak my nip, and I was furious and felt totally violated.

“I mean, women are sandwich makers, dishwashers, nannies, and fleshlights all in one convenient package! Who WOULDN’T respect what that can do for a guy?”

Streep didn’t cover up for Weisnstein. By tweeting she didn’t know about Weinstein’s behavior she covered up for herself.

Hey, it’s just flirting! You womenz don’t have a sense of humor! It’s 30 years ago! Society was different then! You’re not a 10 anymore!

Story goes that Laurence Olivier, who co-starred with Hoffman in “Marathon Man,” got so tired of Hoffman’s method-actor exertions that he said, in so many words, “dear boy, why don’t you just act?”

“I have a tremendous respect for women.” The battle cry of men who don’t.

Look, nothing I have done or will do is reflective of my conscious self. All my actions are randomly-generated from an ever-expanding list curated by a number of weakly-intelligent and largely untrained convolutional neural networks. Me? I’m just a mind floating in space, cashing checks, living it up. But don’t you…

And what he would do if he wouldn’t respect women?