“[A] 2016 comedy where he served as director[.]”

It’s always interesting when patriarchy is not only the reason that some fucked up shit happened, but it’s also the reason some other fucked up shit DIDN’T happen—and the reason it didn't happen is, itself, fucked up! 

I do think it’s interesting that she went from wanting people to affirmatively use *both* she/her and they/them, to now stating that either set of pronouns are acceptable.

tl;dr - just because these people aren’t cool with the most extreme anti-abortion position one can possibly take (which is basically where the GOP at large is,) doesn’t mean they agree with whatever you think the rules should be, or that they’re your allies in any other way.

Let’s start with the proposition that, by all indications, neither Russia nor the United States appear to engage in prisoner exchanges for purely rationalist or utilitarian reasons—rather, they seem to exchange prisoners purely for the sake of not allowing the other side to hold one of their own citizens, regardless…

I apologize, I got your comments confused with “kimothy”’s comments from 8/13 (https://jezebel.com/1849409218), and who is in fact seemingly inventing quotes. That was my bad.

I understand what you’re saying. I’m saying that if Moscow wanted to intervene or have an agent/puppet/preferred broker in the black market arms trade, why wouldn’t they have *already* have done that with someone else? I’m sure Putin has plenty of loyal, but otherwise unscrupulous agents and assets on the payroll,…

Well, in that case... see my comments above re- “Could Putin just give the guy loose arms and put him back to work?”

Okay, so, you concocted language that was used by no one, and put it between quotes to give it the imprimatur of having actually been said by someone (presumably me.) And then, when I ask you who you’re even quoting... your pivot position is that one cherry-picked portion of one comment of mine—when read alone, and…

Cool take. What, in your esteem, is the maximum acceptable age difference between people? If it varies depending on the respective parties’ gender identities and sexual orientations, please advise as to where you draw the relevant “bright lines” of decency.

See my comments above re- “Could Putin just give the guy loose arms and put him back to work?” 

He would need to actually have an “in” to get hold of those weapons, then he’d need to rebuild a network of mercenaries and other dodgy assholes to do the literal/actual labor, and even then he’d still be missing the other side of the equation that made him uniquely suited to the arms trading business in the first…

I feel like Polanski always belongs in a category by himself—without equivocating about whose crimes are worse... the man fled the United States to avoid being sentenced for drugging and raping a minor. Somehow the French refuse to extradite his ass, and apparently he’s not wanted by Interpol anymore. Say what you…

It bears worth mentioning that regardless of what motivated the character in the movie to join the military, a great many people join because they are poor, come from dying towns, or similarly dire circumstances, and the military recruiter is all too ready to feed them lies and promise an escape, meanwhile our culture…

His ability to effectively funnel arms to bad people was the product of there being an abundance of poorly guarded, poorly inventoried (if inventoried at all,) arms, munitions, and military equipment in former Soviet bloc states, which he would then sell to warlords and the like based on personal relationships he…

If they can get both Griner and Whelan out in exchange for Bout, that would be great. Bout’s already been incarcerated for like half (or nearly half) of his 25-year sentence, he’s supposedly up for parole in 2 or 3 years, and it’s unlikely he’s anywhere near the hazard (if at all) to the world he once was.

You're using quotation marks, but who are you quoting? 

Even when I was a teen and fairly easily tantalized by most depictions of sex in movies, it never occurred to me that these scenes were spontaneous or improvised. Even at like 14-15, I assumed what I was seeing on screen was as choreographed,staged, and rehearsed as fight scenes and dances, if only as a matter of…

I’ve known people like this; dude basically wants a trophy wife who will play domestic worker by day and have sex with him at night. The guys I’ve known that were like this eventually figured out that if they have enough money, and join a certain kind of church, the church’s interest in locking them into their…

There’s a good amount of literature on the nuts and bolts of online dating, and analyzing thetavailable data to try to arrive at grand conclusions about the dating dynamics and preferences of “Men and Women” (overwhelming, though not exclusively, focused on the cishet sphere.) The long and short of it, as explained by…