Not sure how you figure that. It’s heavily implied May knows who Peter is and simply allows the pretense she doesn’t when she gives advice. Unless she was doing something else that you mean “oblivious” with.

Man... what is so hard that people can’t figure out the following phrase construction is a bad idea.  I mean I knew it in the 90's.  It doesn’t mean everyone paid attention, damn...

My read when I saw it for the first time the other day was that Kawaru was unambiguously interested in Shinji. But I’ve only seen it one time and the timeline for that is so freaking compressed I didn’t really read mutual interest of that kind back.

You know, I see this stuff alot in terms of a lot of fiction. But I think themes or tone tend to be extraordinarily subjective in terms of are they relevant to the viewer or not.

I think what he’s touching on is how people have personal reactions.  I personally felt Walt’s journey was a bit herky jerky myself but I generally don’t fight online about it.

One of the problems of modern criticism, is they took they acknowledged the idea of your lens “framing” your experience, but then never took it the next step past acknowledging it. So often things like Evangelion, MCU, or even Star Wars are judged by an oddball lens where in Star Wars for example, a critic may force a…

The both sides of their mouth thing is really a function of the landscape.

I’m honestly finding the vetting for 2020 outright weird. It’s like no one besides the Russian Government learned anything from that debacle.

They didn’t last time. What’s different?

Those men’s groups didn’t get buy in either.

The problem I think, has always been the disconnect between use in social sciences and colloquial use though. Even in articles, I’ve seen the term used to mean everything from jealousy to lack of emotional regulation. Oddly that last one seems reinforcement of toxic masculinity rather than anything else.

A question worth pondering is why Game Of Thrones captured the imagination of so many of us living in the 21st century. What does our own medieval creation say about our society?

It’s probably because incel culture should probably be removed from the general conversation as if it is logical. It isn’t. It’s a reaction and a radicalization forum for the most part where men tell other men untruths about themselves and about women.

To some extent it’s because boys are still taught that their status is intrinsically linked to their ability to “couple.” We don’t teach that successful manhood comes from within.

I don’t think so. You rightly focus largely on how the burden is on women to protect themselves and I get it. It’s a moral hazard that women face. But the thing that every man deals with is as we’ve culturally decided men have no place in saying whether or not a woman should bear a child (this is fine), we created a…

Frankly in the 90's, social groups had a better understanding of their own self interest coupled with in the 90's, Bill Clinton was extraordinarily popular. Maybe people got spoiled by Obama, but being charasmatic/unblemished isn’t necessary if you’re voting your self-interest (see H.W. Bush and Trump on the R side).…

I’ll do my usual straight to the greys bit on this. I’m not sure why it’s shocking for anyone that sex workers are not OK with having their clients profiled or arrested. As is probably glossed over, the reason it’s so unsafe is whether the cops are arresting Johns or the workers themselves, they have to be in the…

While I agree with you, you are in some ways shooing away other people’s concerns on a topic that’s got actual data on it.

It’s all good.

Not really buying this. If it was about repayment to the victims, the money would go to the victims. It does not.