“ The church’s systematic attempts to control women through usage of outdated theology and cherry-picked Bible verses is leading to severe consequences for people of faith.”

Uh, good. We need far less faith to begin with. Religion has long outlived its usefulness to human society.

Here’s a novel idea: don’t have a goddamn wedding.

Even more reason to do it if it’s hot and humid. Get out there!

Been a huge geek all my life. Grew up playing DnD, watching Neon Genesis Evangelion, and devouring whatever Marvel comics my parents would buy me. I was into fitness by my mid-to-late teens, and never felt like they were mutually exclusive magesteria. You can earnestly love ‘nerdy’ things without being a…

I think there’s a few core principles that help to stay the course:

1) Find something you like. You’re far more likely to continue to do something you enjoy.

“What we are doing is ground up all the way. It is one giant story,” Snyder said. “The first thing we had was the Justice League concept. The other movies, in a way, have to support that. That is our Wonder Woman, our Aquaman. They have their own creative concepts that supports them, but they do serve Justice League…

That’s assuming, in all cases, that there is any suspension of “sexual autonomy”. That is information you can’t possibly be privy to, so any assumptions based on that claim are spurious at best.

And I’m not advocating sex work as ‘fun’ or ‘cool’ (although morally I see no problems with it provided someone is consenting…

Remind me again why sex work is illegal and therefore creates a black market that is run by criminals where women are frequently victimized because they have no legal recourse?

What’s it like waking up and realizing you’re literally the worst?

Our laws are better. Secularization > psuedo-religious junta.

Yeah, that’s not everyone. I’m not into rape fantasy, but I have a dom/sub sort of sexual relationship with my wife and the idea of controlling her autonomy beyond the bedroom is repulsive to me.

I can provide a little insight into this since I do have a kink for dominating my wife (one she thoroughly enjoys and reciprocates.

As someone who came of age during the time when Squaresoft was on an unprecedented run of making insanely good games during the 90s, it’s super sad watching them become a shell of their former selves.

This comment deserves more stars.

I’ve been a Marvel fan essentially my whole life, but every time I get the inkling that I should maybe, just maybe finally read some DC books and see what they’re like they announce they’re doing their 50th goddamn reboot of the past 5 years and it makes it feel like anything I’ll start to read will be retconned…

I was a stay-at-home dad for two years and my wife was the sole breadwinner. Ironically, almost every "it must be hard with your wife making all the money" comments came from other women. Almost exclusively. And my repeated response was always "it'd only be hard if I was an insecure, sexist asshole."

Ah, Pascal’s Wager...the problem is still ahead of you: how do you know you’re worshipping the right god and doing so properly? All world religion’s claim exclusivity over the origins of the universe and the nature of reality.

Nearly every time humans filled replaced “I don’t know” with “god must have done is since we…

"We can't trust the half-dozen people who control the means of production...I know! Let's give all the means of production over to a single person while also giving them dictatorial control over the state! That'll work!" - Communists everywhere

The political reality of those two scenarios couldn't be more different.

The problem with their rationale is the notion that North Korea is behaving like a rational actor in this conflict. The power base in NK could care less about reunification (unless it meant they ruled the entire peninsula). They strictly want to maintain the bizarre personality cult they've constructed while keeping…