You should have just started taking your pants/skirt off and asked them to demonstrate.

Any odds on where most of the donations will end up/whether this will be a repeat of Sandy/Haiti etc with a questionably low percent of the money actually going to disaster relief?

Can I just edit to “we support your efforts to stand-up to your misogynist employer and against sexual harassment.” I absolutely do not have a blanket level of support for her - and I’m not convinced she would feel anything useful for a working class woman who experienced the same sort of harassment. I hope she wins…

Again, you’re missing what I meant by expect - basically predict. You can expect anything you want, but you’re going to be disappointed often if you divorce those expectations from real life. You said, basically “why can’t he be more like Kobe?” I said “because his life isn’t like Kobe’s.” And then you freaked the…

Sorry, I was mistaken. Yes, I said and stand by the fact that Kobe and Parker are in very different positions with very different social capital - and that what, from a practical standpoint, we can expect (as in what is most likely to happen) each man to do is different. What I did not say, but you implied I did say,…

Do you say “yes, let’s have sex” each time you have sex?

Please stop being deliberately dense. Pretty please. I did not say anything about what we can or cannot expect. I am saying that if you have any awareness of human nature and ability to recognize the wide range of motivations that drive human behaviors - which may be different from your own motives and with which you…

The one where, like many other miscommunications, person 1 hears from person 2 at a later time “no, that’s not what I said/meant/implied. You either did not listen or misinterpreted something.” Again, I have no idea what happened between these two individuals. But especially when it comes to sex, when many people rely…

It’s absurd to say that because a person likely committed an injustice, no matter how bad, that they cannot experience or adequately share other injustices. You can debate whether he deserves the money or accolades that come with successful filmmaking, but the film has already been made and by all accounts depicts…

No, but it’s possible to have genuinely believed at the time that it was happening that it was consensual, and to after the fact realize that the other person was not consenting. I have no idea no if that’s what happened in this case, but it’s certainly plausible in general.

I didn’t say it excuses him. I said I can see how he got there, and I don’t think it should be hard for anyone else to.

These situations aren’t comparable in terms of what can be practically expected. The social capital that Kobe wielded as a very successful pro-athlete plus the different response (then and now, in many circles) to athletes versus anyone else accused of rape are quite different than those of a newly-famous filmmaker.…

Mmm hmmm. So you’re not voting? Writing yourself in? What are you actually hoping will happen come November?

Are you under the impression that Trump does not support nepotism and cronyism?

I did actually talk to someone who is considering voting for Stein as a “I want the party to know I only vote for progressive candidates” declaration. But literally, she’s the only liberal person I’ve heard say that IRL.

I’m not sure that “most religious people” really have the power to RUIN anyone’s life. If you mean “most conservative politicians identify religion as the driver behind at least some of their terrible policy decisions,” that is perhaps true. If you mean that many along the GOP base use religion to explain their party…

It’s cool if you’re an atheist and commendable if you’re a religious person who’s really into separation of church and state. It’s a bit unreasonable to ask any religious person not to identify that as central to who they are.

While they did speak about gun violence generally, I think both the impetus for and primary theme of their speech was racism. To have a title indicating otherwise is an equal effort to make the presentation “more, uh, generally palatable.”

I hear you (I think). I’m sorry both about your mom and your experience with that class. That said, are you a proponent of the “survey the class for a list of triggers, then warn appropriately” approach mentioned somewhere else in the comments? Did your teacher know about your mom? And even if s/he did, and thus could…

“The college graduate whom he raped”? That’s terrible phrasing, like she’s a more sympathetic victim because she went to college! “Whom he raped” would have been more than sufficient. The only reason we need to know she had already graduated would be in the context of the whole story of the evening, describing that…