Dax Shephard’s career is a thing of wonder to behold. Only Channing Tatum has managed a greater descent from acting laughingstock to working respected star.

Yeah I’ve noticed this a lot too... the old “give em an inch and they’ll take a mile” problem. People feel reluctant to admit any sort of grey area because they’re worried their adversaries are going to perceive it as weakness and run with it, so they default to a sort of Manichean mindset.

I unfortunately think that little has changed... I wasn’t alive in the 70s so I can’t speak to that, but I remember still getting attention from men my dad’s age and older starting from around age 11 or 12 in the early/mid 2000s... I was tall and well-endowed, sure, but I was clearly and obviously a child. It didn’t…

Yeah, to me that detail is important. It shows she was confident enough in the situation to say no, and he was respectful enough to accept it. That’s not something that can be said about every groupie/rock star encounter, you know?

“I also can’t ignore that Lori had already said no to David once, and had every reason to think it’d be safe to do so again.” <— Bingo.

I was 13-14 in the mid-70s, and I got a lot of attention from grown men. I was thrilled by it. Boys my age either ignored me, barked at me, or called me names. Adult men talked to me like I was a person, admired me, complemented me. At the time, it was bliss, and I felt it made me special. And thanks mainly to a lack…

She could have if it had been in Canada. 14 was the age of consent until 2006.

“...you can understand how Lori Maddox could have possibly developed not just a sincere desire to fuck adult men but the channels to do it basically in public; why an entire scene encouraged her, photographed her, gave her drugs that made all of it feel better, loved her for it, celebrated her for it, for years. You…

There’s a double standard here, too. White musicians wear Che Guevara t-shirts so much it’s a cliche and nobody thinks it’s much more than a fashion statement, but Beyoncé puts her dancers in black berets and suddenly she’s a full-on Black Panther? It’s ridiculous.

The fact that it was barely satire tho.

On the flip side, I have experienced discrimination and ostracism within the Indian community—people who want me to somehow prove I am Indian.

I suspect that’s mostly based on Obama’s skin tone. If he were a few shades lighter, “biracial” would probably be applied more often than it currently is.

“Secret Muslim goes on television and makes a white woman cry.” - Fox News

Ellen is interwoven for me with my own coming out. My parents were both fans of her sitcom, and had been watching up to that point, and I knew it. I, fourteen, read in the newspaper about how she was a lesbian, and was coming out on her show, and how big a deal this was.

And for people who are too young, she faced a firestorm for having come out; people demanded she be fired, certain radio hosts called her “Ellen Degenerate” and considered themselves fiendishly clever, and she was basically shunned by craven networks who feared losing their audiences.

I wish he could be in his last year forever; he’s been his best self lately! He’s probably gonna be a great ex-president too...

For the majority of us who have been anticipating this film forever, we do not root for Ryan Reynolds, per se. We root for Deadpool, and accept Reynolds as a great choice for the character we know. And the movie looks VERY good, from a fan perspective.

I’d also note that I met a number of such people in law school. Many of them subsequently lost their high-paying jobs in the Great Recession, and quite a few have never completely gotten their careers back on track. None of the guys in that subset identify as libertarians anymore.

What did I just read? You can use all the big words you want in your writing, that doesn’t make it logical or sensible.