Thing is, the way you worded it, quality wasn’t a factor, simply whether something was canon or not (and if you want to look at it as quality, consider the case of the formerly reviled Halloween III: Season of the Witch, the movie that for years was scorned simply for being ‘the one without Michael’ despite it now…

There’s one big difference here, and it’s one that will likely diminish with time, but for the moment I’d say applies -

Comparatively speaking, the MCU is still a pretty young franchise. It hasn’t built up the cultural cache that SW has where people spent years building it up to be more than just a collection of…

I would also add that if a universe is big, sprawling, chaotic, and self-contradictory, it should fall to the creators to embrace that mess wholeheartedly

i am guilty of this and even though i still struggle with it, i try very hard not to anymore. kevin smith said something either in an interview or a podcast or something like a year ago and i believe he was talking about the then recently announced joker movie starring joaquin. he knew a lot of people were cringing,…

Even if she did kill her husband, as between her, Doc Antle, Joe Exotic, Jeff Lowe, and the various other big cat/private zoo owners, she remains by far the closest thing to a decent person among the whole lot of them.

Second paragraph is spot-on. Back in the late 90s, two big things happened contemporaneously: the writers’ guild strike, and the “Friends” cast holding out for millions. While both actions were successfully resolved, reality TV is the legacy we’re stuck with. The networks learned that they could ditch the stars and…

Labeling it rape would definitely be an overstep

We’re not talking about hypothetical situations or abuses in the divorce system, we are talking about one particular case. She has the right to not have private photos spread all over the internet, even if she posted photos in a different context. I haven’t seen any allegations that this was done to retaliate against…

I gotcha I just meant to say that not all assaults are necessarily physical - which is why I was thinking that posting public pictures or videos of someone without their consent is basically a kind of sexual assault, given that it’s much worse (at least to my mind) than a lot of other things that would be considered…

Based on the articles i’ve read, any photos posted willingly were anonymous, meaning no face showing. She has every right to post pictures or anything else she wants under her own terms. It was wrong of him to expose her in the divorce. It was unethical to have a relationship with the female staffer, but lets not…

But verbal assault is not physical...? Though maybe that falls under the legal heading of “harassment”. But really, I’m not talking about legal definitions, just a phrase that more accurately captures what that act actually does to someone. Psychological abuse is definitely a part of it, but I feel like it goes way…

Would it at least be a form of sexual assault?

SMH. Thank you for making my point. And hers.

Emanuel Macron’s staunch ally just quit his candidacy for mayor of Paris due to nude selfies he sent to a potential hookup, while being married with kids. Cut the shit with the “Americans are Puritans” thing. This is not unusual throughout the world, even in places thought to not care about personal behavior.

I wrote a term paper for a First Amendment seminar in law school about how hard it is to prosecute these kinds of offenses, and the term of art is “nonconsensual pornography,” which I think articulates the lack of consent that you’re associating with rape. It also leaves room to acknolwdge that the lack of consent can…

And porn implies the making of sexually graphic content intended for public consumption. This is not accurate here where intimate photos and texts were leaked that were not intended for others’ entertainment. 

That’s exactly what revenge implies.

She has a really good point, and I think it’s important now more than ever to use language correctly.

I can’t and won’t fault her on the pics since their existence was a private matter between her and her husband and he put them out into public, allegedly.

Tougher laws won’t happen as long as Roman Polanski is around! They keep him in hiding