For me, I think the disconnect is a conversation requires “dialogue” and that actually is going to require everyone to deal with data they don’t like. Some porn consumers will have to assimilate the idea perhaps their favorite actor/actress has a pretty dark story or that something they like has flaws. Some will have…

Truthfully, it was the two sides of the internet fighting about it that turned me off more than anything. As quite a few commentators have pointed out, it may have been just better to let those trolls scream into the void. And then if you did see it, it felt entirely too political what your reaction was so it wasn’t…

Consider the narrative from a different way if you don’t understand it. The “Clinton’s” have been a political family in the spotlight for two decades. What Trump is now, took over two decades of congressional hearings that never went anywhere, people holding on to perceived slights, and the entire RNC’s collective…

Talking, sure. But talking doesn’t actually do anything. In the end, someone has to provide training. Or someone has to become a better kind of police. Or someone has to work on community outreach. Or someone from the community has to help foster reengagement between the cops in a neighborhood and the constitutents.

It also wouldn’t be short. The next president gets at least the next two Supreme court Noms. If we go from a 5-4 to a 6-3 court (probably one of the next will be RBG), the consequences wont be 4 yeas. It will probably take 10-20 years to unscrew up the court. And if that happens, liberals better be a super majority…

There was a time when there was no such thing as “professionals.” As much as I can dig your sentiment, the only thing “professional” means is good enough to play at that level and has a support system.

People care because it’s about what the party looks like after the election, that’s it.

Pretty much. She was describing a family/boyfriend interaction that actually sounded like gatekeeping.

Because she’s far from the only person that’s done it. It’s a historically grey area in Presidential administrations as different Admins have had different ways of protecting communications they don’t want ultimately to become public.

Honestly, this has been so long that no one actually presents this story correctly. Monica Lewinsky ALSO lied about it on a sworn affidavit in the Paula Jones investigation. Monica and Bill were telling the same story until...

How? There’s nothing to step up. This is what Clinton supporters worried the Sanders campaign tactics would ultimately result in. This line of attack was used on the left successfully as well after being 2 decades old on the Republican side. There is no defense for it as Hillary was part of her husband’s White House…

The problem ultimately becomes that Harvard would have to write some sort of policy allowing one form of club but not another. And I think no matter how well intentioned, any such policy might inevitably become dated quickly, be awkwardly written by necessity, and Title IX challenge prone. It might just be that this…

“(no, making fun of a bigot isn’t bullying the bigot)“

“Who hurt you, Gen X?”

“actual issues” sounded more reductive than I meant it. I simply meant if you’re going to roll around into specifics, eventually you’re going to touch a lot of differing experiences so telling a group to “shut it” or defaulting to aggregate culture as representative of specific groups becomes an issue. At least if you…

While I kind of agree with you, I think if you look upthread at agenttremble’s point you see the issue. Feminist as a term is fine, but there often is an aversion to “what about the menz” thinking which gets really, really difficult to deal with when we start looking at many intersectional issues or actual issues such…

Umm... Both Doom and Quake had pretty dedicated death match communities. When it was original Doom/Doom2 anyway. I can’t speak much to Doom3, but both Quake and Doom were usually pretty solid in terms of full matches and full servers. Hell, Doom had DWANGO pre-internet which was basically dial in gaming and hosted…

My bad and correcting this. It was Parker Posey I was thinking of in relation to the Ali Forney Center, not Mary-Louise Parker.

Eh, maybe go back and stop the holding and defensive picking that’s going on and you’ll see the scoring go back up.

I’d also consider the economics of Amsterdam. Amsterdam doesn’t just serve its local population; it serves tourists in large number. So it might not be as instructive as we think if the entire US allowed prostitution as the domestic sex worker market is probably too small in Amsterdam for the volume they see. It…