A Little Anger Is A Good Thing

What Appeals To Me In The Deuce Is Some Of The Same Things That Made Me Interested In The Wire, Which Is There Seems To Be A Theme Here Around Markets And Capitalism And Labour. This Is A Moment, 1971, Of Something That Was Under The Counter: Then Brown Paper Bags Suddenly Became Legal, Pornography. And It Was Really The Birth Of An Industry Which Is Now A Multi-billion Dollar American Standard. And These People Were The Pioneers At A Moment Where There Really Were No Rules, Then Suddenly There Was A Legal Industry That Was Allowed To Exist.

What We've Learned From The Whole Election Cycle Of 2016 President Elections Is Men And Women, Men Particularly, Are Pretty Comfortable Talking About Women In Terms That - I Think It's Hard For Me To Not Believe This Has Been Influenced By Fifty Years Of Open Pornography And That Kind Of Culture.

A Little Anger Is A Good Thing If It Isn't On Your Own Behalf, If It's For Others Deserving Of Your Anger, Your Empathy.

If I Were A Person Of Color In Florida, I Would Pick Up A Brick And Start Walking Toward That Courthouse In Sanford. Those That Do Not, Those That Hold The Pain And Betrayal Inside And Somehow Manage To Resist Violence - These Citizens Are Testament To A Stoic Tolerance That Is More Than The Rest Of Us Deserve. I Confess, Their Patience And Patriotism Is Well Beyond My Own.

I Feel Like If You Know Any Women Who's An Essayist Or A Writer Or A Public Speaker Or Just A Public Person, And They Have Any Presence At All In Any Kind Of Social Media, Or Any Place Where Men Can Voice At Them, You Have To Be Pretty Amazed At The Level Of Special Provocation And Sort Of Violent Speech And Misogyny That Comes At Them. Any Woman That's Really In The Public Sphere Has Experienced This. It's Kind Of Shocking How Universal It Is.