If you’re carrying a towel, front and centre makes it easier to grab with either hand, and it’s still accessible when you’re sitting down. It’s just the most practical location.

I suspect that it’s also useful because if you get itchy, you can get in a surreptitious scratch while you’re “drying your hands.”

I’d like to issue a counterpoint, as someone who was basically raised in a bodybuilding gym (my dad was a bodybuilder back in the day, and our garage was converted into a gym and was a local hangout for bodybuilding for those who didn’t feel welcome in a traditional gym in the 80s.) compression tights were not a…

Perhaps this is to help us forget that these children that Kay Ivey cares so much about will have to bear their fucking rapist’s baby thanks to the new law she signed.

I teach college, and I’ve started giving trigger warnings about material that is perhaps unexpectedly dark. (One piece I teach in my intro class features suicide, another sexual assault.) I mention it orally at the end of class on, say, a Tuesday, and then we watch the thing on Thursday.

Here’s the thing though: very few people deny the existence of violent rape. It’s basically the only forms of rape that nearly everyone (even rape apologists) agrees is real and bad, so the idea that you need to show brutal rapes in TV and movies to educate the public is sort of silly. It’s the more subtle attacks…

He’s doing the ol’ “no one cares about male rape so I get to not be sensitive to female rape” switcheroo, more commonly known as the “if you mention one thing in an article, you have to mention ALL things or else you don’t care about them.”

Your overall point is valid, but the guys you mention are more acquaintance rape rather than the brutal rapes found in a 1800s penal colony.

Frankly, that is a dumb take.

So here’s the thing about that.

I had heard great things about Outlander so the one time I choose to tune in, it was this episode. It was seriously one of the most egregious, drawn out rape scenes I’ve ever seen. Then at the end of the episode I remember the woman is like, yelling at this man who was just victimized for hours on end. Never gave…

This. People accept the Law & Order, woman held at gunpoint in the alley type of rape. It’s the multiple other forms of rape that people don’t want to accept. 

The State Fair of Texas is an horrific crime.

This. I had a similar argument with a troll during the Great Gawker Troll Attack (not sure how long ago, but a group of trolls decided to post the most violent images and extreme sex-related imagery on the comment boards here. Stuff like severed heads, bombing victims and scat porn. Not sure why they started doing it…

I think that’s a ridiculous assumption to make. There was a huge amount of outcry over the rape and gratuitous violence in GoT. It got the nickname Rape of Thrones, which it richly deserved.

1) 2 extremely brutal rape scenes in the first 30 minutes is a little different than 3, which were not excessively brutal, over the course of 8 seasons

Thank God for movies because otherwise we'd have no idea that rape was ever a problem.

That was my first thought as well. 

And if it’s done in a way that’s incredibly sensitive and about the story, what are they worried about? I don’t understand that.

Pretty convinced at this point that whenever you hear about people loudly walking out of movies at festivals they’re studio plants.