Honestly, I think the time he went to summer camp will probably make a better film anyhow.

Helena has always been my favourite clone. Or at least since the diner scene with Sara, which is pretty close to "always".

I might use a phrase like "unrepentant misogynist" to describe someone like that.

Sorry, who? I don't really follow politics and was speaking hypothetically. It would be a pretty strange and telling coincidence, though, if there was a candidate in the current election cycle who just happened to perfectly fit my completely randomly chosen example.

Nope, we still have rape culture, sadly.

Hm. Well hear me out here, because I do believe that as a male in a patriarchal society you are probably by some reasonably useful definitions a sexist - probably you benefit from sexism in various ways, probably there are sexist elements in your life that you don't challenge, almost inevitably you have some…

In hindsight (it was late) I probably wouldn't have addressed my original post to "mras" even, since most self-identified mras come with a battery of distinctly unfeministm toxic views that I don't countenance at all. I mostly just meant people who feel uncomfortable with feminism because they see it as neglecting the…

100% agreed. And even if our only concern was the best interests of women (it's not, of course, but even if it was), there'd be every reason to want fathers to be as involved as possible in parenting - and moreover to want to be involved, and to benefit from that involvement - because one of the things that makes it…

That sounds like the exact opposite of a problem.

I like mayonnaise better than Hillary Clinton but would still choose Hillary Clinton over mayonnaise for president.

I love mayonnaise!

(using "feminism" here in a very broad and inexact way, obviously feminism isn't monolithic but I don't think that nuance is important for this argument)

Completely agreed. I'd have no real problem with her if she'd just written a simple note about her personal knowledge of the dude (which is presumably all positive), and would think anyone giving her shit for that was out of line. But what she actually wrote is ugly and garners no sympathy from me at all. I guess all…

Canada had a laundry list of gendered (and, even earlier, racialized) sexual offences, including "rape", until the early 80s when we replaced them all with sexual assault, being any non-consensual application of force of an (objectively) sexual nature. Much less baggage, not concerned with any particular body part…

That actually makes me a little more sympathetic, honestly. I'm all for people not being insulated from the consequences of their shitty opinions, but I feel like taking part in the criminal justice process should merit a little more consideration. I'd have no qualms about her losing gigs or whatever if she'd been…

I absolutely agree that some lawyers defend people accused of sexual assault in scumfuck ways. I don't know if this is the case here, though I suppose I could google it.

There's a huge difference between supporting your friend through what is surely an extraordinarily difficult time regardless, and taking a loud and public stance on shit that you really don't know much about. Stanhope's understandable desire to stand by his bud doesn't excuse him making lurid accusations that are…

I think about this a lot, the question of what to do when a friend is accused of abuse or sexual assault. Sometimes it's easy if not awesome - over the years I've had one or two experiences where stuff comes out about thankfully not-all-that-close friends and it is, sadly, entirely and immediately believable. I…

I agree with this to a point, but I think a lot of problems emerge where cops get it wrong, and usually (though not always) on the side of not taking domestic abuse seriously enough. There's not really a good solution because of course police as part of their jobs need to filter out utterly frivolous or fabricated…

As a rule in Canada you actually can't waive child support at all - child support belongs to the children, not the parent, and can't be traded away. Parents can and obviously do dicker over their relative incomes and who has the kids when and what that means for who pays what and all that stuff, but it is no longer…