As I read it, the objection was not necessarily to the rape per se, but to how it was framed by the narrative.

I think the "chances of not sucking" rating is way optimistic for that one. I too was so baffled by the discordant vibes of the trailer (simultaneously the creepiest and cheesiest thing I've seen in a while), that I looked up the source material, and let's just say, the fact that they are apparently trying to sell…

Well, he clearly does have a problem with healthy boundaries.

Then why is that "He had never adopted _her_"- line so often played like some sort of trump card in these discussions, as if it ended the debate?

Well, I'm not saying he should go to jail for this particular incident, but please let's stop pretending that the fact that he was not actually blood-related to her or that he didn't formally adopt her, just some of her silblings, resolves all potential issues in such a case.

Kinda makes him part of the family, no?

Just for her silblings…

I don't think the incest taboo is just about genes - at least not any more. The other revolting thing about it is the grooming aspect and the inherent abuse of power. Which still applies if he played a fatherly role for her, regardless of their genetic relationship.

I never understood the idea that it's only love if it ends in happily ever after. We have to let people go for various reasons that in no way diminish love (death, the realization that fate leads them in a different direction). Not being able to let go is not love but obsession.

Don't even joke about it. That won't make him popular with the sisters. Hair is serious business.

Maybe it's a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B (down to columns X, Y and Z, as long as we're at it). Jessa contains multitudes. I wouldn't expect her motives to ever be entirely pure.

Didn't Voice-Over-Ted explicitely state that Luke's birth was the execption?

I don't see how the characters here are any more sex-crazed than the hetero guys in Entourage or Californication or Mad Men. Frankly, so far they actually seem less objectifying to me. Yeah, one guy is playing with the idea of an open relationship, but I already suspect that this will cause issues with his partner who…

Call me a sucker, but I think Jessa ws smiling, because she was happy that her friend was not dead. Yeah, I know. Bloody likely.

I think it's just a shorthand for general misogyny.

I have high hopes for Doris. Non-nonsense attitude, dry sense of humour, what's not to love?

Yeah, I'm sure there's some weird shit out there in brony-fandom (it's almost as if there'd be a certain law of the internet….), but _mostly_perverts? Nah. I've only heard of the show because my brother likes it and he likes it for the same reason most other casual bronies have mentionned in this thread, which is…

That reminds me of that time in college, when I discovered an unexpected new dimension to one of my favourite male classmates. I don't remember who had introduced the topic, but another friend outed herself as a die-hard fan of one of the apparently more preposterous ones and he challenged her to a trivia battle (who…

In Chinese fandom, Holmes and Watson are apparently called Curly Fu and Peanut. I just wanted to share this delightful piece of information in the hope that someone else finds this as lovely as I do.

You say dilute, I say destigmatise.