I reluctantly admit, Tom DeLonge in “I miss you” video, “Legends” Brad Pitt, Tyson Beckford & Fifth Element Corben Dallas are SOLELY responsible for my sexual awakening and puberty.

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This. Art vs. Science. IMO.

Definitely. I think there are some things certainly worthy of examination and discussion, but it’s all just so complex and convoluted that you really have no idea where to start and I agree that a lot leads to over-indexing; for example, a concern about the manufacturing of pornography often bends into outright…

A lot of that comes from de Sade, believe it or not: the core practice of “philosophy in the bedroom.” It’s an aristocratic pretension that, as they all do, became a bourgeois obsession over time.

I would argue that this message is probably best communicated by a person of color (and indeed it has been many, many times).

I think that her statement can be true and yet also flippant and remorseless. While prisons definitely need a massive overhaul and shift away from punishment and toward individualized rehabilitation, this particular woman is such a piece of work that I translate her little diatribe to: “Well, there was nothing in it…

It may not have been your intention to invalidate Veit’s experiences by saying that we don’t know what would have happened, but that’s absolutely how it comes off. Of course, none of us can see the future, but we all use language like that all the time. Pointing out that other outcomes were possible is either…

I think you are making your points nicely. Your personal experience was an ultimately positive one but you recognize that is not universal. However, you are concerned that people will throw the baby out with the bathwater and that the solution is better regulation and oversight of all such sites rather than a complete…

Yes, that’s what I’m calling invalidating. Full circle.

You ARE invalidating my experience and there is absolutely no other way to read your first comment about how I probably wouldn’t have REALLY killed myself or died by coronary by 35. You’re outright stating it isn’t true, and implying that my very serious mental health problems were histrionics. I deserve better than…

So, I didn’t go to Provo Canyon. I went to a different school, which did not abuse children. Shut down Provo Canyon, certainly. That’s not the same as saying shut down residential treatment modalities.

Alan Rickman. God, he was such a beautiful actor.

Tom Petty. I had always loved his music and grew up on it, and was so happy when I looked him up as a person to see this calm, cool guy who was just some Florida dirtbag made good. I went to see him five times live, and it was easy, because he hated high ticket prices. He’d insist there not be box seats at his shows…

The day he died, a friend made a comment on a thread, “Mr. Rogers died. It’s okay to cry,” at which point I totally lost my shit.

Damn this whole thread got super depressing. 

I was devastated when Jerry Orbach died. I first knew him as Lumiere. Then as my dad introduced me to Broadway music, I got to know him as a member of the original cast of Annie Get Your Gun, El Gallo from The Fantasticks, and my absolute favorite, Julian Marsh from 42nd Street. A lot of people saw him just as Lenny…

Mr. Rogers 😭 He died a couple days after my beloved cat and it was too much. The Mr. Rogers documentary kills me, I cry every time I watch it, I can't even talk about it without crying. "Children need to know that they don't have to do anything special to deserve to be loved." UGH.

Raise your hand is you’ve ever been pushed out of a job while the man who did the pushing gets to fail up. 

What kind of weird criticism are you trying to make? Should we celebrate the clickbait bad takes?