The wife’s instincts seem solid in that second letter. Five years out of a ten year relationship is pretty bonkers. The fact that she saw video of it also suggests that she was tipped off by a third party or she found out herself, not that her husband came forward with a tearful confession about how he doesn’t want to…

A guy whose only speciality appears to be ripping off (sorry, “rebooting”) action series from the 80s runs a toxic set? Hand me a potato, those wires, and some chewing gum, because I’m shocked.

Gawd I’d forgotten about those. It’s amazing the filmmakers actually though there was enough interest there for a trilogy.

Except that still doesn’t square, because part of Rand’s “philosophy” was that government payouts actively HURT their recipients, so voluntarily taking those payouts is self-harm that no rational human would do. That is, if Rand’s bullshit was even a little bit true. Which we know it’s not. At its core it’s the same…

This reminds me of when they released Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 and the market loudly responded “No thank you”:

Yeah, Rowling’s argument that HRT is just another form of conversion therapy, therefore we need to...convert trans people into realizing they’re actually gay is quite the feat of rhetorical gymnastics.

They’ve also said they’re “transwoman in presentation. male by birth” and “I don’t identify as a woman. I identify with women.”

To say this view is idiosyncratic in the trans community is really underselling it. It’s like when white people quote Candace Owens to prove they’re not racist.

I mean, this: “Rowling continued in a series of 13 tweets, going on to call allowing someone to transition a ‘new kind of conversion therapy for young gay people’” pretty much gives away the game.

She’s not in it for a nuanced discussion of how different healthcare systems interact with the pharmaceutical industry, or…

I think the problem is that comparing the very real issue of doctors throwing medication at depression without any real plan is not at all comparable to how HRT is treated. The barriers to getting hormones for trans people are often enormous and doubly so for young trans people, often with fatal consequences as people…

If I might make an attempt at nuance here, the idea that many psychiatrists are too quick to throw pills at something and call it a day is both true and a big problem. I speak from personal experience - I struggled for years futilely against clinical depression with a series of RXs that never much helped until I…

It also seems to assume that attacking a woman is so difficult, that the best way to achieve it is through a decades long campaign for the acceptance on trans people, and then pretending to be trans, so one can assault women.

And it ignores the fact that, uh, men can just walk into women’s restrooms right now.

The thing I don’t understand about this stance is that there is nothing stopping men from entering women-only spaces except the sign on the door. 

“Trans women take nothing away from “biologically” born women’s rights or relevancy. What is the threat exactly?”

Shoplifting dog repellent and a fucking hammer!

Yeah, I feel like Dan was being a little harsh on the other woman and not harsh enough on the guy. He’s apparently just flirting and has no intention of doing anything with the other woman, but does she know that or is he stringing her along? Also I feel like showing nude pictures someone sent you to someone else is a…

The other thing that confuses is me is she says they exchanged numbers ‘when my partner was transferred.’ Transferred where? Another city? Department? And does that mean the boyfriend and coworker aren’t working together? Or the opposite where he was transferred to where she is? Because physical proximity makes a big…

They lyrics may not make any sense with regard to the film’s story, but the sheer high Romantic drama of ‘Kiss From a Rose’ is a perfect fit for the camp operatic sweep of ‘Batman Forever’. You could have inserted Seal into the film as a character who follows Batman around to sing theme music as he makes dramatic…

It would have made Perfect thematical sense just one movie later, though... :)

The song is schlock, but goddamn it’s schlock that works.