Oh Justin, you adorable galoot. Never change.*

You misunderstand, I'm Canadian :) I just wish we were as enlightened as that on consent and sexual assault.

Yup. Lots and lots of marijuana industry/infrastructure. Some forestry, energy and mining too. Wine in the south. So yeah, hippies, rednecks, organized crime, resource extraction. Oh, and the people who originally lived there and never gave up their claims to any of it, who we've mostly herded into little pockets of…

Oh man, I wish we were that awesome up here.

Totally. This is the sort of thing that I strongly believe should end up in the criminal arena, but due to sexism, the difficulty of prosecution, and our sometimes muddy understanding of consent often gets siphoned into another legal area if it gets addressed at all. You're surely right that this sort of situation in…

Isn't the commonlaw still the foundation of US law, absent any legislation? That said, yeah, all the states will have definitions of sexual assault in their codes, and I'll buy that most explicitly attempt to define "coercion" or whatever. I'm putting together some research right now on an (unrelated) feature of…

It's a federal prison, right? I don't really know but my sense is that people get ping-ponged around all the time. Or maybe a family member moved to NY or something. I do hope we get more of her next season.

I really agree with this. And I think the show can be applauded for what it does right and still subject to criticism. A decision can be good and still hurt some people.

No, I think it's important that it was Bayley. If it had been Humphrey we could've made it about him, right? That fucker, how could he, etc. etc.

You're right, we don't actually know, but she's a mass murderer, barring truly extraordinary circumstances it's hard to see how that doesn't inevitably make her one of the worst. I mean, insofar as such a thing can be measured. Obviously that question can get pretty complicated. All I really mean, though, is…

No, we're not going to agree to disagree. I'm sorry to come down hard on you here, but this is both what I do for a living and a topic that's very important to me.

Um, coerced sex is rape. If you coerce someone into agreeing to sex with you, you're a rapist.

One of the things I like about Frieda is how she occasionally puts things in perspective for me. Like, you could probably say that in some ways she's the most evil person on the show, right? At least that we know of at this point? But contained, in jail, among friends, she's delightful.

It's part of a series of transactions where Judy King coerces Luschek into sex. It doesn't really matter if he wants to or not, and it seems pretty clear that he doesn't. That's rape.

I don't have much experience with this stuff, but I feel like you should probably get over it? Folks' lives have different rhythms, even super busy people get coffee breaks. And daytime messages might be less pressure-y, since the assumption is probably that you might not be able to get back right away, so there's…

If metaphorical, circle jerk.

Or two spaces after a period.

I have no idea how realistic or not it is, but I kinda bought it - everyone's just trying to hold their lives together in there, plus nobody wants to catch shit by making trouble in the visiting room.

I honestly didn't find it that weird. Ramsey's the worst, sure, but it's a matter of degrees, and the truly egregious shit is in his personal habits rather than his political actions. As a ruler he's probably not much worse than, say, Balon, and better than someone like Joffrey who's also a colossal fuckup. Seems like…

I was hoping for pretty much exactly the opposite from Ramsey's death. I felt like the only way to undercut his power was to downplay it - as the episode unfolded I was hoping it would be completely perfunctory, Jon crosses the courtyard briskly, cuts him, down, and is already shouting orders to secure the keep as…