I know this wasn’t the whole point of your post, but I would also like a lot more focus placed on the producers, funders and big corporations that are making Woody Allen films happen than on the actors that are hired. The actors themselves have a lot more to lose by speaking out than we do by speaking anonymously on…

Sometimes people do experience orgasm when they are raped. It is a physiological reaction. Many survivors feel ashamed and conflicted if they experience this, and many preparators use this to manipulate and further abuse their victims. It is still rape.

Actually (and I’m not defending all these assholes who signed the letter) sometimes women orgasm while raped. It is a thing that can happen. It’s basically your body reacting while you’re dissociating (from what I’ve read). It’s incredibly traumatizing for women who experience it because they are already told that it…

There always was something aristocratic and haughty in the signatories’ letter, wasn’t there? Look how they framed the issue, in terms of “eros” and the sovereignty of the individual (even the individual men!)—rights, not values. Those are hallmarks of the aristocrat’s worldview. In retrospect, they seemed to be…

Women CAN orgasm during rape, it has nothing to do with consent, it’s just a biological reaction to stimulation that has nothing to do with a person’s frame of mind.

Absolutely. If anything it’s the body’s coping mechanism in a violation. It’s traumatic psychologically on the victim not something they enjoy whether they physically orgasm or not. I mean, men can be raped and forced to have an erection. It happens. It doesn’t negate the lack of consent.

Yes, I was going to say something similar - the (weird) idea is that the orgasm would make it okay. Holy shitholes, Batman.

I’m guessing you’re joking for the punch line, but women can and do orgasm during rape. It’s a sheer biological response and in no way takes away from the violation. In fact, I’ve heard it only adds to it as it’s another facet of their body they are unable to control during the rape. They feel their own bodies are…

STOP victims particularly children, male rape victims and adolescents have been known to feel immense shame because their bodies orgasmed. They hate themselves, feel dirty and like their body betrayed them. Bodies can react without cognitive input. It does not mean it wasn’t rape. It does not mean the victim enjoyed…

And yet Cheeto Satan can still tweet all he wants. Cool, Twitter.

I don’t know...if the American Taliban are any indication of other type of religious extremism, all manner of kink is permissible as long as you keep it on the down-low and completely deniable.

It only really ruins women. He is ‘cool’ so he’ll be just fine as long as he doesn’t get himself a serious scandal. Pretty much everyone has written his past crimes as ‘youthful indigressions’ instead of a reflection of the person he is.

He’s just such a talent! At accumulating blackmail material on producers?

So will this earn him that dreaded “Difficult To Work With” label that results in your acting career going down the shitter, or at least leaving you glad to get roles in Lifetime movies? Or does that rule only apply to female performers who refuse to do nude sex scenes or touch the director’s pee-pee, not dudebros who…

Give him a break, I mean he’s still reeling from an ugly divorce and losing his daughter to cancer. Didn’t you see the flashback scenes?

Yeah, there were never simpler times. There WERE, however, times in which one paycheck was enough to buy a house and raise a family, but that’s about our ongoing wage stagnation and tax and economic policies.

But, largely, it’s because impoverished people in this country are legitimately not served by either party, and they know it.

Eyup. Penn and Teller came after this, saying that most people idolized the era in which they were children, because they didn’t have to worry about all the terrible ass adult shit going on in the world. For me, that would be the ‘80s, but I’m not a fucking moron and realize that Reagan was beginning to fuck up our…

“Since Nov. 7, 2016, the rush to blame the rural poor for Trump (despite the hard numbers revealing that his real base is comfortably middle-class whites living in suburbia) has created a thirsty market for this kind of drivel.”

Journalists who engage in this type of cultural tourism are part of the real “problem” with rural America.