Of course you have an anime avatar. lol

Yeah... I don’t know what that was so quickly dismissed because it was a good point. And maybe it is a good point that we should consider how certain behaviors lead to a way of looking at sex, women, etc.

I said straight up it shouldn’t be illegal or limited. I only said we should be able to discuss the societal implications rather than just say everything is fine. If neither of us think is shouldn’t be made illegal based on ickiness, we agree. So what is your point here?

Yeah I get way more ick factor from someone wanting to bang a robot than from using a fleshlight.

You’d sleep with a dude who had slept with other people before right? But would you use a secondhand vibrator or dildo? There’s a difference, but I can’t put my finger on why. 

For the record I understand and feel similarly. Traditionally valued feminine qualities are doll-like. Pretty, quiet, docile, smooth skin. These dolls feel like the platonic ideal of what the patriarchy would have women be. It’s depressing.

There is clearly a difference because people are willing to pay much much much more money for them. It makes a difference to them so they is something there that is different. No one pays 100$ to rent a fleshlight and no one pays 3k for a fleshlight or dildo. I don’t pretend to know what it is that’s different, and…

Most of this is absurd and consenting adults should do what they want. This does bother me though. Men already treat women like objects. True or not, it sort of feels like the manifestation of an underlying desire for women to just be fuck toys with holes. That could just be projecting. Not everything gross should be…

This was the most insane part of his half of the hearings in my opinion. The guy came off borderline unhinged, and they want that for their SCOTUS pick?

You’d think a SCOTUS nominee wouldn’t need this kind of coaching this is sort of his field of expertise isn’t it?

He’s SUPER good at being told “no,” too.  This much is clear.

If only she smiled....less?  God we just can't win, can we?  Be brave, stand up for what's right, risk your career and life, and still get told you're presenting yourself wrong. 

WTF are you talking about? Yes they can. As long as the report is made in good faith (ie they’re not making things up) anything can be reported. If you are on the fence about whether something is reportable or not, err on the side of making the report. 

Say nothing, and get excoriated. Say something, and get ignored. We cannot fucking win.

This is not a USA problem. This is not a GOP problem. This is not a religious problem. It is a human one. The difference between the US and wherever you are from is that here we are TALKING about it. 

Meh, don’t kid yourself. I have no doubt it’s bad or worse everywhere, where children and especially girls are not valued as individual human beings.

So, at the risk of saying too much, I have lived in the St. Cloud area nearly my entire life.

Assholes and monsters are everywhere. It’s what we do about them that tells us who we are. The Democratic Party, for the past few years, has taken the habit of rooting them out whenever they are are found out. The Republicans put them in the White House and in the Supreme Court.

Yeah I liked Hardwick before this and Matt Mira and Jonah Ray made a great podcast.

Judging by the response I get on twitter whenever I badmouth him, his fanbase is mostly paid bots.