There was some bad hair-band video in which a woman kicks some dude in the balls after he does something bad to her—I remember laughing at it as a kid and my super-feminist mom telling me that balls-kicking was akin to rape. Rape! I will never forget how shocked I was even as a child to hear my mother say that.

One in hole!

Jesus Christ, why do I get the sense you don’t know shit about victims of domestic abuse. No one is treating them like a child. No one is examining them against their will. It feels like you’re exaggerating this simply to have something to get pissy and sarcastic about. Or your trolling for funsies.

I, too, am confused with all the venom being spat at this law. What the hell?

I would watch the shit out of Jason Momoa as Lobo. Also, Jason Momoa knows who Lobo is? Awesome.

I think standing ovations at Sundance (and Cannes) are a dime a dozen. They have stopped being festivals for film-lovers (if they ever truly were) and are now premiers for the hype-cycle.

Maybe both?

It’s disturbing because Turner made no mention of rape as the catalyst for his rebellion. Scripture was. It’s doubly disturbing because Parker seems to have put in multiple rape scenes with little female agency in order to spur the black male avenger to action. It follows Parker’s statements of indicating that he…

That the rape was a catalyst to Turner’s rebellion. Did not happen.

The torture porn aspect is what’s really bothersome.

I’ll go with “If you think blackface isn’t racist, then you’re racist” for $200.

I bet she could get fifty grand to name the kid after Mary!

“She seems like she’s smart enough to insist on paying after the wedding though.”

I noticed that too, but she didn’t say any of those were amounts this large -- maybe the earlier bribes were significantly smaller.

The dad could have been paying for the sisters lifestyle for longer than that, but the reason she can afford so much this time is because it is her money now.

Here’s the part that trips me up: It sounds like Mary has been wealthy for a while when the OP says stuff like this: “She paid my brother to let her come to his graduation and make a speech...She paid Anne to let her be a chaperone on her senior trip instead of mom...She pays my brother for information on what Anne…

Obviously you take the money up front cash, then don’t invite her to the wedding, and pretend she’s crazy if she tries to sue you for the money back.

Take the money, split it with the Good Sister and figure out how much you can get for your firstborn. Or at least how much you can get to name Bad Sister the godmother. Buy a spinning wheel.