Thank you, I appreciate that.

Our discussion was not about whether it's natural for homosexuality (or bisexuality) to be the norm. It was about whether or not an aversion to homosexuality was natural rather than socialized.

And I can tell you that what you see as a "natural" aversion to homosexuality is more likely a socialized response, given that homosexual behavior is seen as more or less "natural" according to culture. Just because something feels "natural" to you doesn't mean it's inherent rather than learned.

In my experience of knowing straight women and gay men, they are significantly less bothered by this specific social situation—straight girls have asked me to pretend to be their girlfriend, and asked gay men to pretend to be their boyfriends, to discourage some guy from hitting on them. Which is what makes me think…

But in the specifics of the situation, you don't have to pretend to be interested in a whole category of people, because it's not a gay discount. You only have to pretend to be interested in one specific person. And again, it's for five minutes with a total stranger who doesn't actually care about the totality of your…

As long as you're not hurting anybody there's nothing wrong with wanting to be who you are.

I haven't seen that episode of The Office, but not wanting to be seen "as something else" for two minutes (or whatever) in front of a total stranger to benefit a friend is definitely a weird level of "I don't want to be seen as gay!"

For some reason she illustrates to Nick her prowess at performing oral sex by shoving what appears to be much of a full-size baseball down her throat.

You can take my word for it: Magic Mike spent a lot more time than on Mike's financial problems crushing his dream of a custom furniture business and a lot less time on stripping than you'd expect from a female fantasy.

Like I said, it's a template. Generally if people try to marshall a reference to support a point they're trying to make, they usually at least pretend to have watched the thing.

Congrats! You're my new template for a stock response that I can c&p as necessary in the future:

Yeah. I recently went swimsuit shopping and I identified heavily with that song.

I don't see where you're getting "she's demonstrating that [looks and perceived sex appeal] matter as much in casting calls for men as for women." She wrote imaginary casting calls "filtered through the male gaze," so her entire point is "casting calls for men aren't actually like this and it would be ridiculous if…

I don't think it rises to the level of conspiracy theory, but I do think they were certainly aware that a small but vocal group of misogynists was going to start shit. Like, unless you haven't been on the internet in the past 10 years, it would be impossible not to be aware that that some dudes were going to flip out…

The timeline stuff makes it pretty wonky, though. He already looked super old for a high school senior in Drift, and when he popped up in 7 (I believe a few weeks after Drift) he was clearly like 45.

I think when emotion and creativity plays a role in what you do, it kind of changes the equation. Like, there's being bored at work, and then there's knowing that being bored at work is going to affect the quality of your performance. In that way, it's less selfish than it is wanting the show to preserve its quality…

At least I got you to admit showing a character (particularly Quinn) as sexy sometimes isn't inherently a bad thing.

What a random thing to say. I honestly can't tell whether you think criticism is "policing" or whether you somehow misread yet another of my comments and think I'm calling for a legal ban on all tit shots. If it's the former, I think you'll find that criticism often a very effective tool against homogenization. If…

Where have I been dishonest or cherry-picked anything? I compared the actors you picked as examples with the actress under discussion in this article. If you have an example of one of those guys "being sexually objectified for a whole movie" (since apparently "it does happen"), why not actually cite it instead of just…

But if you acknowledge that women are more sexually objectified, you should correspondingly recognize that it doesn't happen with men "too", because "too" implies equality. It happens with men to a significantly lesser degree, and generally in vastly different circumstances (Harley Quinn literally being a sex clown…