There are some in the community who feel it useful and even pleasurable to relive childhood rape in a safe setting so as to gain emotional control over it.

There are some in the community who feel it useful and even pleasurable to relive childhood rape in a safe setting so as to gain emotional control over it.

George Lucas is a terrible filmmaker who has legitimately disappointed tons and tons of his fans with his terrible creative and terrible business decisions. George Lucas is not gay and lesbian people living under the threat of oppression from homophobic majorities.

George Lucas is a terrible filmmaker who has legitimately disappointed tons and tons of his fans with his terrible creative and terrible business decisions. George Lucas is not gay and lesbian people living under the threat of oppression from homophobic majorities.

@avclub-6b8aa777ed70e7f15a45947a0f0c5986:disqus Well, also Luke's Jedi Order renounces a lot of the creepiness of the Old Jedi Order by primarily recruiting Jedi as adults or teenagers who already have well-formed personalities, rather than recruiting little kids and brainwashing them into being perfect Jedi soldiers.
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@avclub-6b8aa777ed70e7f15a45947a0f0c5986:disqus Well, also Luke's Jedi Order renounces a lot of the creepiness of the Old Jedi Order by primarily recruiting Jedi as adults or teenagers who already have well-formed personalities, rather than recruiting little kids and brainwashing them into being perfect Jedi soldiers.
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@sarapen:disqus The really hilarious thing is that your statement is in fact literally true within the Star Wars EU for Ki-Adi-Mundi (the one Jedi Master with the really tall skinny head), who is permitted to have sex for the purpose of reproduction because his planet's population crisis requires it, as long as he…

@sarapen:disqus The really hilarious thing is that your statement is in fact literally true within the Star Wars EU for Ki-Adi-Mundi (the one Jedi Master with the really tall skinny head), who is permitted to have sex for the purpose of reproduction because his planet's population crisis requires it, as long as he…

The ironic thing is that because of the now-mostly-forgotten Ewoks TV series, the "forest moon" of Endor is one of the most fleshed-out settings in the Star Wars galaxy, with the little Ewoks having adventures in the caves under the mountains, sailing across the ocean, getting lost in the desert, etc.

The ironic thing is that because of the now-mostly-forgotten Ewoks TV series, the "forest moon" of Endor is one of the most fleshed-out settings in the Star Wars galaxy, with the little Ewoks having adventures in the caves under the mountains, sailing across the ocean, getting lost in the desert, etc.

It probably has more to do with Mormons being too upstanding to "steal" porn for free than it does with Mormons actually consuming more porn than the rest of the country — since the only thing that study could track was people actually paying for porn with credit cards.

It probably has more to do with Mormons being too upstanding to "steal" porn for free than it does with Mormons actually consuming more porn than the rest of the country — since the only thing that study could track was people actually paying for porn with credit cards.

I'll take a pass on the anti-semitism — was there really that much of it other than Wright saying bitter things like "Them Jews are denying me access to the President"? — but the "racism" thing is fucking dumb. The vast majority of what Wright was saying is well within the mainstream in black America, and the…

I'll take a pass on the anti-semitism — was there really that much of it other than Wright saying bitter things like "Them Jews are denying me access to the President"? — but the "racism" thing is fucking dumb. The vast majority of what Wright was saying is well within the mainstream in black America, and the…

Oh, what the hell, I'll go through a few of these other ones:

@UWIR:disqus I guess you're really really intent on having a long protracted debate about a third-party candidate with approximately 0% chance of actually winning the election in the comment threads of the AV Club, and while that would not be the most pointless thing I've ever done to avoid work it would be one of the…

Really? Because in Season of Mists Cluracan really honestly comes off as the least sympathetic character of all of them to me. Even Azazel has some panache, and can argue his case quasi-sympathetically for having literally been damned — Cluracan is just a selfish douche, and what's worse a douche to his little sister…

Really? Because in Season of Mists Cluracan really honestly comes off as the least sympathetic character of all of them to me. Even Azazel has some panache, and can argue his case quasi-sympathetically for having literally been damned — Cluracan is just a selfish douche, and what's worse a douche to his little sister…

Touche. I actually knew that, but I think of pre-"Flanderization" Ned Flanders and post-"Flanderization" (thank you TV Tropes) Ned Flanders as two separate characters.

Touche. I actually knew that, but I think of pre-"Flanderization" Ned Flanders and post-"Flanderization" (thank you TV Tropes) Ned Flanders as two separate characters.