You are, but if you are LGBT, you’d be luckier in any of Canada, New Zealand or any of the many European countries that bans employment discrimination against all LGBT people, rather than just federal employees. The U.S. has made great progress lately, but many other countries still provide more legal protection for…

The whole idea just baffles me. It feels like the statute is saying, “Well, yeah, you’re guilty, but golly, it happened so long ago!” Every time I see his face it makes my blood boil. I hope the women who’ve spoken out feel at least a tiny bit of solace in knowing they’ve been heard.

It’s normal here, but we don’t have a vast number of unique animals for them to kill. They only kill “boring” critters.

Yeah, but just because popular opinion is behind it doesn’t mean it’s right. There’s a pretty strong debate about it in the US, too - cat owners who allow their cats to go outside understandably don’t like being told that they’re endangering their pet. Makes them feel like bad cat parents and feel attacked. I would…

I stole this from je suis cocopop upthread because I’m a thief (and why find your own source when someone already posted a good one, anyway).

The research on TNR is extremely lacking and the results of what research was done have been entirely manipulated to fit an agenda. I love cats- but until there’s better evidence TNR works on a large scale, euthanasia is necessary.

Right, it temporarily puts a bandage on the problem. Temporarily, it will lower the numbers of wildlife that gets destroyed. But long term, the feral cat colonies will grow back up, and they’ll either have to kill large amounts of them again or they’ll have to find another solution.
If they’re going to do something a…

So this is a movie about sexual abuse? Cause a 15 is not a woman in that she is not adult & can’t legally consent to an affair with a grown ass man in many places.

Thanks for bringing that up. It’s important that people keep shouting “Benghazi!”-oh, sorry, “car accident!” whenever she’s in the public eye.

If you fast-forward to the 4:00 minute mark on this video, you can get a sense of how cut-the-crap Bernie Sanders is. (It was during a U.S. senate hearing debating American-versus-Canadian healthcare).

It really does. In my defence, it’s past midnight here and it’s been a loooong day.

Because most of these rape scenes aren’t done to show the horror or prevalence of rape, but are done to titillate or to show how avant garde the creator is, both of which are exactly the wrong reasons.

I guess they probably felt they wanted to make some sort of broader point or comment on society at the time and such topics, but I think (I didn’t see it, but just going from the explanation they gave) this was not the best way to do that. There’s a difference between using fictional characters as a basis for…

If it was really so British, don’t you think there’d be more than 19 complaints? The complaints are distinctly un-British. I’d be happier if more people had complained about the dreamt-up rape scene, though.

Yeah. Really it’s more like, “There are so few complaints in recent decades that it’s possible for a tiny number of complaints about something innocuous to stand out”. My headline is shit though.

It certainly seems like a salacious addition. I think we can get through an opera or a historical biopic without injecting invented sexual assault.

Joan’s statement sounds weird. She doesn’t deny that fucked up things happened, “bizarre relationships”, she just wasn’t there that one time. Well whatdoyouknow...

It warms my heart to know bigots and Confederacy sympathizers can pat themselves on the back for doing the bare minimum. I guess the entire country can go back to forcing us to jump through hoops to vote, alienating us economically and being unjustifiably fearful of us all while recording vines of yourselves…

True fact, but that fact would have interfered with me making a Monty Python reference and I couldn’t allow that.

“It’s different! It’s contextual. You don’t get it.” cries everyone, in defense of their rich white friend.