DramatistDreamer

Well, I'm looking at it from the side of a woman who has been sexually harassed and undermined by a man. We hear the resumes of the men and we are hand-wringing about how to regard them and their work (which is fair) but when are we going to start hearing the stories of the women whose careers were upended by this type of systematic belittling based on gender? When will we really start to regard the cost of all that creative work that was never create and therefore lost to us? What about the women whose paths were made harder or even blocked? What about those of us who were so discouraged, disheartened that we didn't live up to our full potential because of the "gate-keepers" who wrecked our confidence? Yes, I include myself because I very much had to deal with a least one or two men who I had hoped would be a mentor who just saw me as a potential 'side piece' or bed partner, had no interest in a mentoring role (only if you consider 'sugar daddy' some type of mentoring role). There are countless stories of women that I know, talented women who gave up because they had to deal with too much B.S. and they got weary. That is truly the sad part of this story. This is where my sympathies are and remain. At the very least, all of these men had access, opportunities and time to build their careers. Many of those women who drifted away from building their careers...didn't.

From the world of NCAA sports...but seriously, only a maximum of six years??!

That likely has more to do with the fact that Y&R suffers from poor lighting, poor hair and makeup and poor wardrobe.

I wasn't sure whether to put this here or the Movies & Music thread but apparently the two Coreys are getting the Lifetime Treatment Corey Feldman Reflects on His and Corey Haim's 'Legacy' as Trailer for Lifetime Biopic Debuts (Exclusive)

I was pretty neutral on Sawyer playing Kyle but I had this strange feeling that TPTB might have gotten rid of him because the rivalry they'd set up between Kyle and Noah wasn't working and because of the height difference between HS and RA. A very superficial reason. I've learned though that often with soaps, last hired can often be first fired (for e.g. the recent Y&R firings).

Well, here's a case of real-life voter fraud but something tells me that it's highly unlikely that Trump's sham panel uncovered this one.

I can never trust what goes on in this so-called government these days. I know he is a Democrat but it came across as if he reporting a figurative "impeachment", another 'blame Hillary" go round. I much prefer your explanation though. Although, can you blame me for jumping to thinking the worse when things like this are said without even batting an eye?

I thought it was cute too.

Whew, that backlash was immediate! Thanks for posting this. As soon as I put it up, the WH was singing a different tune. Don't forget that Sanders was the 2nd person to "float" the idea that the U.S. might not participate due to 'security concerns'. Nikki Haley was the first. Clearly, they were going to try it.

Speaking of bizarre, I wonder if Putin said to Trump "If Russia is banned, b*itch, you're not going either!"

What in the actual f*ck??!

Al Franken has resigned.

and you see what a thoughtful writing and direction can do? I'm still marveling at how much better some actors seem after they leave the show.

The editor of famed Paris Review has stepped down. Paris Review Editor Resigns Amid Inquiry Into His Conduct with Women      

Actually some of the harshest critiques on Swift came from other White women. Awesomely Luvvie did write a blogpost claiming that she knew why Swift was on the cover while asking why she was really on the cover, but stated that she wasn't question the validity of Swift's presence in the issue but why on the cover. I saw quite a few tweets like this today. And that wasn't even the harshest one I saw. There was another one that came across my timeline (someone had retweeted it) that was very lengthy. My issue with the cover was that Time choose to put Terana Burke on the inside and not on the cover. She was the first person to say Me Too, almost two decades ago. I have to give props to Alyssa Milano because when the media wanted to brand her as the face of the MeToo movement, when she discovered that Burke had started this movement in the late 90s, Milano was very quick to try to educate people about Burke and has been doing so ever since. In any case, I am glad to see this type of acknowledgement before Time gets taken over by Meredith Corporation, we may never see this type of acknowledgement of any type of progressive issues on their cover ever again.

Believe it or not, this cover has generated some clapback. The founder of the MeToo movement was not on the cover (she's on the inside) and there were people complaining that Kesha should've been on the cover, rather than Taylor Swift. The Silence Breakers definitely deserved the POTY but the execution was not all it could've been.

We knew they were going to be useless from the outset. Speaking of useless-

That writer's room sounds a bit...er, much. Honestly, I wonder what Judith Light's thoughts are on all this. Perhaps a lot of the cast and crew were able to simply do their jobs and go home but it seems like boundaries were being crossed all over the place. A great deal of the off-camera dynamics sound like a complete mess.

Not to sound like an alarmist but at this point, I think people's safety will be jeopardized beyond the Middle East. This type of crisis cannot be confined to specific borders, especially in this day and age. Lest people doubt how steadfast this investigation has been.

Going by this picture, I'm gonna guess that Tonya Harding is pleased with the biopic.