Ok, great, now the kissing + chair-whacking will make more sense to you.

Sure, but we’re not talking about whether Ansel Elgort is just gross or unethical, we’re talking about if he’s a rapist. So discussing whether what he did amounts to rape seems to be at the heart of the whole conversation. For the record, what he did was clearly gross and unethical, and he shouldn’t have behaved like…

Oh I mean, legally absolutely that should be looked at, I don’t disagree. I just mean for the average commentariat, focusing on that really just comes across as an attempt to minimize what is definitely gross and unethical at the very least.

“Focusing on the technicalities of legality when a dude who had way more power has painful intercourse with a girl just over the age of consent is also a shitty thing.”

Since nobody else has said it, this is why the call is for engaged and enthusiastic consent. Not implied consent, or assumed consent. The girl was 17, and he obviously wielded a substantial and outsized power and influence comparatively, regardless of the age of consent. If your partner seems uncomfortable or in pain…

Sorry you are wrong (as you usually are about technical things because you pretend the world is the way it is in your head instead of the way you can clearly see it is, or that everything you think should be a law already is), legally withdrawal of consent has to be expressed unequivocally. Crying in pain is not a…

just for everyone in the back: the issue isn’t that it-might-possibly-technically not be statutory rape. the issue is that what she’s describing is regular rape, including the phrase ‘we need to break you in’ while deflowering a 17 year old.

I love Baby Driver to death, but it was already a bit of a cringe whenever Spacey popped up on screen.

Nah, it needs to be demonstrated that their views are unacceptable

Lotta rape apologist shitheads in the comments on a sunday morning with nothing better to do than be shitheads. Ignore them.

Her story hinges on her being sexually fucking assaulted, idiot. She’s not saying her age is the thing that made it legally assault, but saying that it contributed to the power dynamic of the rape and her own processing of it. He literally said “We need to break you in.”

That’s a much better proposition than untangling my USB cable from my keys and fumbling around to plug in both ends, failing several tries along the way because I’m miserably dexterity-challenged. I might even accidentally drop my phone or the battery pack if I don’t have a surface to work on.

That’s a much better proposition than untangling my USB cable from my keys and fumbling around to plug in both…

“Frank Miller”

You’re missing the point of ACAB - as the policing system currently stands, it is impossible for a cop to be good, regardless of their personal intentions. That’s clear in the article given examples of these “good cops” using illegal methods to “protect their communities.” The way policing in this country is…

Isn’t the answer that the good police officers work from within the system to bring about systemic change and root out corruption?

Honestly, thanks CDPR. I’ve been planning to build a PC for this game and more time means more money I can save up. Also waiting for the new Nvidia cards to be released so it opens up the window there as well.

After having had several long conversations with the latter group in recent weeks it’s clear they’re just somewhat smarter and more manipulative than the former. They want to claim to argue from a base of respectability but still portray transwomen as rapists and transmen as victims of misogyny.

What did Jason do?