The Silmarillion contains some of the most beautiful and stirring passages I’ve ever read.

“Sure, like Maron says, it wasn’t rape or physically violent assault, but it’s still a vile, offensive and messed-up thing to even consider”

If you saw a guy doing that in public-- going around to women and politely asking if he could masturbate in front of them, and complying when they refused-- you’d probably call the police.

What kind of deranged pervert is into this stuff WITHOUT the excuse of some kind of fetish??

wtf I love Tumblr now

I have less trouble with that aspect. There are surely protocols & tools for each subduing each individual monster or monster set-- what they don’t have is the capability to wrangle them all *simultaneously.*

I support Trump? News to me.

[in best Yzma voice]

“The chance to be catty and nit-picky about a movie you love or hate or hate to love is an enticing one, but the problem is that that’s not what any of these videos are doing. In fact, the series could be more accurately retitled “What If Someone Was Willfully Obtuse About This Film’s Plot, The Writer’s…

I suppose we could give AV Club a little credit for swerving away from the “[Stewart/Colbert/Whoever] DESTROYS [Trump/GOP/Fox/Whatever] in this DEVASTATING video!!!!!!” hive-mind click whoring technique.

On the one hand, the right has lost its mind over Trump.

Robert Guillaume freakin ruled.

Che was a violent thug and sadist who served in the name of the most destructive ideological force in the history of mankind. All that separated him from being another Hitler was incompetence and happenstance.

So there’s an incident where one person claims a famous person was gratuitously and randomly racist to her, in a way he claims to not recall. It has devolved into:

[The Internet jokes for a year about Ted Cruz being the Zodiac killer]

“Cruz—who is, we feel compelled to remind you, a sitting U.S. Senator—then played along with this bizarrely meme-laden avenue[...]”

PLOT TWIST: Stanley was right. Deborah was wrong.

Colloquially, the form of argument you referenced is known as “Kafkatrapping”:

[ignorant guy on Internet gets caught being ignorant]