I am genuinely glad to see a public demonstration of the fact that sincerely held beliefs, community or religious, don't preclude not being a fucking moron.

"Heh. Dese rubes don't suspect a ting."

Without getting in the guy's head or taking any position on Singer's guilt or innocence, I can see:

Misread that as "of all time," and at first I wasn't sure how that would be measured, but then I was like duh, Beyonce's on it.

"This is worse than what that bitch in Chemistry said about my editorial 'Why male atheists are the only group it's still okay to discriminate against'."

Yeah, this is the kind of shit the "libertarian" kid writes in his high school newspaper and then writes a 3000-word blog post about fascism when it gets pulled.

Was there a rape scene on Archer that the creators later insisted was not actually a rape scene? I must have missed that one.

So stop reading.

I don't think media makes anyone do anything. But it certainly sounds like this particular scene reflects the person who made it's dangerous misunderstanding of consent, and it's not an uncommon misunderstanding at all.

Please find my comment demanding anybody "apologize for the scene itself" because I cannot for the life of me remember making it. I used "apologize for" above in the sense of "being an apologist for," not "saying you're sorry for."

I am suggesting that it is out of character for someone who is established as doing all sorts of awful shit for specific, considered reasons to do awful shit entirely on impulse.

I am aware it didn't really happen. I am disturbed that, in apologizing for the scene, people are demonstrating a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of consent (which is a real concept, not something the show made up— you seem unclear on that). This is really not that hard.

You don't think a real person insisting that a scenario wherein a woman repeatedly says "no" and a man responds "I don't care" isn't rape has any real-world ramifications at all?

The director of the scene defended an unambiguous rape scene as consensual in real life.

Yeah, Walter White would never hurt a child.

Jaime tossed a child from a tower for a very specific, pragmatic reason. He raped Cersei because he was pissed off. One is the action of a ruthless fuck who has no qualms about doing what he feels is necessary (much like violating an oath and stabbing someone in the back to save thousands of civilians), the other is…

One more point: I don't remember any interviews with the director of "The Rains of Castamere" about how Robb, Catelyn and all their bannermen weren't REALLY killed en masse if you think about it.

Dear guys running my country:

Adults thinking they're cool for having Seekrit Clubs is always going to be the most obnoxious thing ever, be it gangs, the Mafia, the Masons, country clubs or a bunch of 20-year-olds-who-look-forty who call themselves "the Machine."

"diversity = white genocide"