Because "I'd rather not have a baby at 16" is not the same decision as life-saving chemo. Should 16 year olds be able to make any and all decisions? No. Should they be able to make the decision about not wanting to be parents? Yes. There's no need to extend this decision to any and all decisions, we can discuss the…

You're not really making a stellar point, friend. It's pretty much the dumbest argument for why 16 year olds shouldn't be allowed to choose Plan B.

I'm not entirely sure what the alternative is to them making educated sexual health decisions. Is it to make uneducated decisions? To not make decisions at all? If your starting position is "16 year olds aren't mature enough to make this decision", where does that leave us? We know that "not educating" is not an…

Yes, 16 year olds are mature enough to make decisions about their sex lives. They are also susceptible to judgment from other people, just like adults are. Being well equipped to make sexual decisions for yourself and being equipped to stand up to people in positions of authority attempting to bully you into making…

Not weird, keep up the good work sir.

Totally agreed. You kicked him while he was sleeping? I'm pretty sure he was just as annoyed to be there as you, the only difference is you're the only one who actually cemented your status as the ass in the story. And then to write about it like "look what an asshole his guy was to me because I'm fat!" You know what…

I think the most impressive part of this story is that he came from dry-humping.

I'm assuming that perhaps even half the bids are from real interested parties. So even if the top bid isn't paid, eventually somebody will be paying for it and it'll be at a higher price than would otherwise be paid to him if people had not falsely bid. He's getting more money even if the top bidder decides not to…

Everybody does realize that by jacking the price up artificially, that's just more money that goes into George Zimmerman's pocket, right? Nobody wins with this plan.

Fuck off troll. Read the indictments yourself.

I'm still not understanding your chief complaint. Is it that news organizations don't do a better job discussing the systemic problems in the criminal justice system? Because I'm unsure of how else you are supposed to garner interest in a cause unless you present specific instances that support your contention that X…

How exactly do you have a national discussion about the way the justice system deals with victims and rape culture and racial discrimination in the courts without discussing specific times in which the justice system deals with victims and rape culture and racial discrimination? It's not a distraction to discuss these…

Well, one thing you should know about the flashbacks is that it is a very common occurrance in this show. Routinely, multiple flashbacks are used to fill in the gaps, so the "rape as flashback" never struck me as unusual just because flashbacks in general are a huge part of the style. Hell, you wouldn't know anything…

But further, I find your criticism of the storytelling perspective continues to ring hollow given that your exposure to the storyline is literally just other people's summaries. It's hard for everything to not seem like a cliche if you're just relying on summaries to tell you the story.

Is your question whether it was necessary, or whether it was effective? Because in a sense, nothing is "necessary" about any character development or the means through which a character develops. In that sense asking whether or not it was necessary seems like a disingenuous question, you can sit back and keep saying…

Yeah you're right, there's probably zero difference between "reading plot summaries" and watching the actual show. Which is why books and movies/television are interchangeable as storytelling mediums. Good call.

How is anyone supposed to make that case to you when you don't know the character? You're asking people to establish a legitimacy for the usage of the trope when you haven't got a context to fit it into, save for what other people have told you.

That's...an interesting perspective. Have you seen the show or the episode in question? Because what's being portrayed is that she uses her rape as leverage to ensure her husband's success and vicariously her own. Her rape isn't helping the male character simply because it exists.

"I'm saying that I'm iffy on this particular trope because I usually find that it's lazy and used in lieu of female internal character development. "

One person's "missing the point" is another person's "simply stating what is actually going on", I guess.