I've been writing screaming about the godawful mess that Polanski's finally being arrested has stirred up since it happened, and I wanted to say something to y'all. I'm not screaming at you; y'all get it. You're on the right side of this issue. If I come up with a detail that you might not have known that's nice but I don't think you need ( Read more... )

Note: The words in bold below the quote have been edited. It was pointed out in comments, correctly, that I used words that refer to diagnoses of mental illness and, to my knowledge, Polanski has not been so diagnosed. Those words, when used casually, are often hurtful to those of us who live with mental illness. I apologize for having used ( Read more... )

It's goddamn depressing, continuing to write about this. You'd think it wouldn't exactly be a tough call: serial child rape is... bad, right?

Apparently it's complicated. Some people believe that because there was supposed to have been an illegal ex parte communication between the judge and the prosecuting attorney that Polanski was justified in ( Read more... )

I'm cosigning meloukhia's letter to the Feministing editors. The text of it follows below.

Dear FeministingI've been reading you guys for a while now. I haven't always liked everything you do or say, but I think that you bring some important issues to my attention and sometimes some good conversations happen on your website ( Read more... )

I have a job. For the next three months. It's an enormous relief, financially. It's an enormous strain on me physically.

I have somewhat conflicted feelings about this.

Jesus blistering fuck I wish I hadn't read Richard Cohen's blog post on Roman Polanski this morning.

• Polanski had good -- but illegal -- reasons to flee the U.S. After copping to a single count of "unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor," he had grounds to believe that a publicity-crazed judge was about to throw the book at him. Aw shit. You ( Read more... )

With the arrest -- finally! -- of Roman Polanski thirty-some years after he raped a child, pled guilty, and fled the country before sentencing, there's been a lot of failtastic media coverage. Anne Applebaum's rape apologia and attack on... the American rule of law? It's hard to process well when your stomach is trying to crawl out of whatever ( Read more... )

My boss's boss had told me that he was going to try to find funding to hire me for another database project coming up after my current temp thing ends the middle of this week. And that he was even going to try to get me a higher hourly wage. So even though I feel terrible and would very much like to rest I said I'd be available to work for them a ( Read more... )

Even in a city I've lived in over twenty years (not consecutively) there are things that surprise me. There are fantastic restaurants I've never even heard of. I still want to try the machito sopes at Birrieria Aguinaga but the phone number I've been able to find doesn't get answered; it just goes to some message about entering a remote access ( Read more... )

Here's the subhead (the head is "Blue is the New Black" oh-stop-you-are-killing-me) beneath Maureen Dowd's New York Times op-ed column for today. "Studies show women are getting gloomier and men are getting happier. Did the feminist revolution end up benefiting men more than women ( Read more... )