Would you have been ok with Charlize Theron playing Aileen Wuornos as she is - skinny and gorgeous? If you think physical likeness was important in Monster, then it certainly is important here. It’s actually more important given the role it played in Simone’s life and career, which is what the film is about. So, the…

My husband calls it menstruation because I do. Even if he’d ever been uncomfortable about it (which I don’t recall), I must have turned him because he doesn’t bat an eye and considers it a body function like all others. He does have a thing about body functions though. He’d never been embarrassed about any of them.

In my language we say “indisposed” or “having visitors from Red Bank (the name of a town here)“. I always make it a point to say “menstruation” because I’m very uncomfortable with euphemisms. They remind me of the shame I used to associate menstruation with when I was a teenager.

I suppose there are light-skinned Black actors who could fit the part.

Yes but the conversation was about non-PIV sex, and that’s what my question referred to - do people really tend to refrain from oral sex because of their religion? It’s an honest question, I have no idea, as religion has vastly different degrees and expressions of influence in different cultures. Swaying legislation…

Forcing her to do sex acts against her will is assault - in any situation, including sex work. This is something regulated by law, not civil contracts. You cannot give up your rights in a contract.

Do you know how much sway the Catholic church has in people’s sex life in El Salvador? Because religion is not the sole influence on people’s personal habits and decisions, in that country or anywhere else.

The two are interlinked - the term “OScar bait” reflects that; Oscar votes do influence what will be financed and ultimately made. It’s a vicious circle.

That’s infuriating. It’s bad enough that older leading female characters are not that many, but to get 25-year-olds to play them, too?

Definitely, he’s been a collector for over 8 years and it’s only in the last 3 years that he started buying and selling for profit.

I didn’t know that. It changes the dynamic, certainly. Personal apologies would still be a better idea though IMO.

They’re not that few. He’s making a nice profit, but he knows the market very well, so he knows when and what to buy and how long to wait to sell.

That’s what I was thinking the whole time I was reading the article. It smacks of men apologising to foreign men for defiling their women.

Collectors. I’m married to one. He keeps badgering me about turning my savings into Lego investments.

Unwanted disabled children needn’t be kept alive then? What the hell?

It means you can buy more for your money.

And he’s usually a loser, too. I wonder at romantic comedies being marketed to women when they so obviously fulfil a male fantasy and serve to comfort bitter men that they don’t need to be or do anything to get a super model. Actually maybe it’s like propaganda - brainwashing women to believe that’s the case, too.

That only proves your brother isn’t interested, not that nobody ever will be. He doesn’t speak for all people.

Yup. Men are not terribly picky in my experience too. (Although it’s fascinating how pervasive and convincing that narrative is, so much so that I spent the first 27 years of my life completely oblivious to male attentions (unless they were outright creepy, that is) because I’d judged myself not pretty enough to ever…

Oh him again. I’ve seen this picture here before and I think it was about another misogynist statement he’d made.