I’m certainly not saying going to prison for something you didn’t do is not a big deal, but I think it’s important to keep this discussion clear:

Actually...

Yeah, it’s weird how that’s allowed, because (by my understanding, and someone can correct me if they know more on the subject), if a lawyer had tried to pull something like that in a Canadian courtroom, they would have been (or at least, could be) sharply rebuked for it.

Right?

Nahhhh. Sexual assault of men doesn’t happen, because dudes are STRONG and if they don’t want to be assaulted, they can just throw a punch. And if you can’t throw a punch, who would actually admit to that kind of weakness?

(toxic masculinity and the patriarchy sucks balls for dudes, too)

This is inherently wrong, because women in western cultures do not “choose” their male partners despite interest or lack thereof by that male partner.

I think what the original commenter means is that Western women seem to have some say in who they marry... but, much like when women speaking up in a class 30% of the time are deemed to be “dominating” the conversation, women having some input into their own relationships is interpreted as “controlling” the process.

She sounds like a pretty rad lady!

The craziest part is that her argument is that no way these grown-ass adult women could have been manipulated by a Professor that has a power-dynamic over them into doing something they don’t want. They have agency!!

Oooooooooooh. Well played.

Yeah, well... when you have dead parents, you tend to have a morbid sense of humor about it.

Hilariously, this is one of the results that popped up for me:

This is the world we’ve always lived in :(

Further, there’s nothing you can do about the fact dad died if you leave the theatre after hearing the news. He’d be just as dead if you saw the text/voicemail after the movie as he was if you’d opened up your phone in the middle of the movie.

I like the cut of your jib, friend.

Sorry, brah. When you’re sharing public space with other human beings, the onus is on you not to ruin every else’s experience so you can deal with your own personal shit.

I’m a phone junkie, but even I put that away in the theatre. We have a social contract when we share space, and texting in the theatre violates that…

I’m sure she exists. However, I’m even more sure that she’s so vastly outnumbered by those who do not regret their decision, as to be a statistical anomaly.

I noticed him immediately, partially because it was a new face, but also because he COULD NOT KEEP IT TOGETHER and that always makes me lose it.

It’s a film that ostensibly supposed to tell the life story of a woman who history attempted to erase, and the main character was a white lady.

Ditto with both of you. Though SBC is slightly less crazy north of the 49th, people still have their minds blown when I tell them that I was taught dinosaurs are just regular reptiles that lived a long time and kept growing, or that you won’t get cancer if you eat the seeds of fruit, as proscribed in the bible.