I live in Alabama, I know what that means. Ain't nobody got time for condescension so lazy and half baked.

I like it on the burritos, the chips are good w/just salsa. 0 fucks.

This internet dragon situation... I thought I saw you on the battlefront, valiant warrior.

It is -like- performance art:

p. sure all those outfits are for extras from the set of The Fifth Element.

The fun thing about your disagreement is it doesn't change the fact that I'm right.

Well, for one thing, she did her job better than the other models. Another would be that she's an artist and worked as co creator to make a work of art to market to a very specific demographic. And she did it with such talent and such canny skill that she's drummed up a shitload of business since then. Kudos to her, I…

Without doubt. I wasn't even extrapolating it to outside the picture itself with the comment, because I was still a bit upset about someone getting so much shit for being good at their job. That just kinda underscores the point, in my way of thinking.

Nowhere did I say 'someone with power wanting to fuck you is empowerment'.

'Nope' to what, exactly? Or are you just being contrarian for its own sake?

Who said that was the only type of empowerment? No one. But to deny that it fits the criteria for the actual, LITERAL definition of empowerment is absurd.

That may or may not have been how I stumbled onto it. :D That and the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice, which I didn't know was erotica until I started to read it.

I absolutely loved that movie. It was such a dark and beautiful examination of sexuality and love.

Touche, and I don't think it was in any way out of line to be offended or that it was particularly thin skinned of you. When thinking of a stranger perhaps referring to my husband that way, I realized I would jump all over him or her for it, so it was a really poor choice of how to express my point if it was feasibly…

Fair enough, I do apologize for offending you, it was not at all my intention. I was so angry at seeing such a condescending treatment of someone in exchange for simply doing their job well that I was feeling more than a little defensive myself, and that wording was maybe a little harsher than it should've been.

... at least toward the end he gets to the point of the rant.

So that is NOT exactly how the sports illustrated swimsuit edition is advertised to appeal? Because they're sure as shit not marketing it to women, and it's blatantly obvious that the entire point of the edition is to titillate and tease based on the sexuality of the buyer. I didn't mean it in the sense of 'I'm…

If it weren't for the use of the ribbon on the morning show, I would've left the word out, myself, tbh. With that, though, the definition fits. That said, you can be a drug peddler who is trafficking drugs, and empower yourself to buy three or four houses, because other people want to pay for what you are offering. I…

I'm talking about giving someone power over you when you lust after or love them, for one. For the second point, to give something power is the textbook definition of empowerment. Now, if you treat people you're attracted to and fantasize about the EXACT same way that you treat total strangers, that's an entirely…

I don't know, it depends on what you consider power, given that the definition of empower is to give power to something. If you can logically argue that lust is a powerful force, and/or that love is a powerful force, and the picture evokes either in the view, that is empowering by the dictionary definition.