You do realize your use of the word "mutual" in this case would mean that Robin Thicke has disdain for and wants to minimize the talent of Elleengency, right?

No?

Aw, silly—that passage talks about *people*, not gays, non-whites, non-conservative women, or the poor!

That's definitely a factor, along with the "hey, lucky kid" attitude some people have toward women with underage boys, and the fact that female/female sexual interaction is often not taken seriously as "real" sex (and therefore considered not to be as damaging when it's nonconsensual). It's all such a load of…

Where Bieber is the swatting-and-missing cat on the higher rung, of course.

She's three years older than me, and I was kinda thinking the same :P

He doesn't realize how idiotic anything he does, says, or wears looks. And that's part of the problem.

If this is what qualifies to you as "convulsive hysteria"...well, you must not get out much.

I was one of those seven, as well.

Indeed.

Ha, well, actually, we're splitting up, but it's amicable and we're still good friends. We were both pretty young when we got together and have made a lot of changes in the last several years. Otherwise it'd be our sixteenth anniversary in a week or so (it still sort of is, since we haven't divorced yet and are…

*curtsies*

I completely agree.

I guess he doesn't see rape that doesn't involve weapons or non-sexual physical assault as violent? Even though rape is an inherently violent act whether or not the victim gets roughed up otherwise in the process.

Exactly this. I'm quite happy not having a "face of atheism". The fact that this guy has essentially appointed himself as one has nothing to do with the millions of atheists out here just trying to mind our own damn business.

This is exactly the problem. He's trying to apply—with authority—absolutes to things that are incredibly subjective and, therefore, not quantifiable.

It doesn't. It's just that certain people seem to want to appoint themselves as public faces of things without any real input from other people.

I'm so sorry that happened to you. I don't think Dawkins has taken into account the psychological impact of having someone you trust betray you in such an awful way. It's so much easier to demonize (and dismiss) a stranger than it is someone you think is your friend.

Here's what I don't understand: why does one have to be "worse" than the other? Can't we just say it all fucking sucks and stop ranking people's suffering according to subjective and arbitrary opinions?

I was wondering the same thing.

Genius!

I'm also wondering how he knows they're having sex in the pool if they're doing it when he's not home.