When the mainstream entertainment industry starts producing live action performative slash that fetishizes gay male relationships for the female gaze, they'll be analogous.

But Ron was also really cruel and insensitive at times. I feel like despite the fact that he was a good guy, he was a bit too dude-bro ish for Hermione. She should have played the field a bit.

If she's resisting you at the last minute, this is a test. It just means she really wants it.

Pretty much.

A woman will intentionally strive to turn you off to see whether or not she can derail your sexual train of thought and action. If she succeeds, it signals the man may lack sexual potency... anytime you get pushback as things move in a sexual direction, the woman is testing you for raw desire (among other things).

PSA: Ladies, one of the best things you can do for yourselves is read up on PUA culture and techniques because it will help you to recognize these assholes out in the wild and then avoid them completely.

Well, if you're the guy making 300+ times the income your employee, you have to be able to live with yourself. You have to really believe that you're the smartest guy in the room, and that you've worked harder, and that you deserve it more. Because if you don't, than you have to admit to yourself that you're…

You would totally condemn me if I was publicly (and wrongly) accused of murder. I shut down and internalize in these kinds of surreal situations, especially anything involving death, and very likely come off as cold to people who expect and demand a certain reaction. Those people would happily see me to the…

Everyone is so self-centered when it comes to other people's reactions. "They must be guilty, because if that had happened to me, I would have reacted this way." People are stupid.

Exactly. How many people's lives have been ruined by the witch hunt for the slightly strange outcast after a murder? Everyone thinks they're a body language expert, but in reality, people cannot recognise the way that a grieving, traumatised or scared person reacts and they mistake their reaction for guilt.

My body language is much the same, though, and if someone accused me of murder and tossed me in prison for four years, then I was acquitted and came home, only to find out later that I had again been convicted and could face being extradited, my body language would still be my body language. I get it, people think I'm…

Your comment puts into words one of my greatest fears: that my expressionless kid will be suspected of a crime for no other reason than he doesn't behave the way people expect him to behave.

I mean... the Italian Courts found Scientists guilty of failing to predict an earthquake... so... yeah...

And by "pumping them out" you mean "lacking the education about sexual health or the accesses to affordable family planning/contraceptives" and by "benefits" you meaaaann.....what? Food stamps? Welfare? Oh yeah, there's no cultural shame associated with those. Nor are there claw backs or a need for basic education on…

"The poor keep pumping them out. Especially when the benefits they receive continue to increase."

Poor people pumping out kids is just such an ugly way to phrase it.

Yep. Or universal health care or subsidized child care or any kind of social safety net. Having children has become a luxury of the rich.

Well, this is what happens when wages are stagnant for 3 decades and there's no such thing as family leave.

Anybody else see this as good news?