The argument that an attractive woman offering a man sex isn't weilding a kind of power over him is willful ignorance. Can people say no? Sure. Is it easy? Well…that kind of depends on the people and the situation. Does the man bear responsibility? Obviously, it's a choice. Still, the idea that a woman who…

There are in fact multiple times where that happens. Happiness is feeling like he can have a life with Buffy, which makes him feel temporarily as though he's been forgiven for his past.

Yeah, her diagnosis seems 100% believable. It's really horrible to be cheated on and lied to.

Yes, that too.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are people unless that definition doesn't allow the identity-politics beatdown on a white man who was so arrogant he thought he could have consensual sex with women who were interested in him for cynical reasons. They commodified him and he commodified them, but only he is…

So…basically nothing happened, but you want to remind us that you hate Bill Maher? Ok.

Man, Misfits was such a dark, mean-spirited show. Almost to the point where I had trouble enjoying it because it was so casually cruel to the main characters. But on the other hand, I liked that it was giving me flawed, messed-up people trying to deal with their lives and often failing. It seemed brave and…

I am imagining you as a sort of medieval dandy in a silly poofy hat and tight leggings. Possibly you carry a lute. The important thing is that you skip everywhere you go, blow kisses at people reflexively, and when people ask what you are doing dressing in this absurd manner and flaunting yourself so, you say "I…

You know what's funny? In an alternate version of this conversation, I am you, making basically the same points you are (though I think you're not understanding what I'm saying, so I apologize if I'm being unclear).

Because you keep trying to make a logical case that because *you* feel a particular way about how language is used, that preference is universal. But it isn't. YOU would be better off in a world where all words could be said by anyone with impunity, but other people would not be better off, and instead of conceding…

…I mean…that all sounds nice, but if the argument is that white people should be able say the n-word in non-casual situations only, such as, say, historical lectures or readings of Huck Finn, I guess that's a space where *I* wouldn't want to do that, but sure, I guess it's a conversation people could have. Using it…

You may or may not be a civil rights expert; I'm happy to take your word for it. This is a blind spot you have. We all have them.

I guess we'll see. To me you're mostly just articulating what un-self-aware white privilege looks like in a way that reminds me that no matter how much PC culture, callouts, etc. get on my nerves there's a reason that stuff exists.

Well if whoever Chance the Rapper is says so, I guess there's no choice.

Huh. Well, it's a free country, so you should keep on advocating for that. A lot of people are going to ask, "why are you advocating doing something that makes people angry and uncomfortable?" and you're going to reply "because the people I disagree with are babies" and then you're going to get called a racist. …

Well…pretty clearly the n-word can be used in a lot of contexts, but the convention that currently exists is that it's offensive for white people to use it. It's not banned; it's just banned for us, because saying the word inherently communicates a disrespect for the experience of black people in America. In fact,…

Note that: "if they use the hologram projector, Savitar would figure it out, because Savitar is always one step ahead" is roughly the same type of argument. "Villain X is always one step ahead" is just lazy writing.

I actually got it backwards - VH requested NO brown M&Ms…but the principle is the same.

The rule isn't arbitrary.

It is a social convention that white people don't use this very offensive racial slur. Maher used it. The offense isn't the content, it's the breaking of a social convention that pretty much every black person I've ever met says they care about. It suggests that Maher cares more about his ability to say whatever he…