As a queer person, I don’t subscribe to the “born this way” rhetoric. Sexuality is fluid and can change over time, especially for women. I just don’t think it’s a thing you can consciously or deliberately change, so efforts like this are completely stupid and anyone who thinks it’s their business should just go be on…

I don’t think the feminism of the show is about rooting for the character, it’s in the fact that we’re now getting the shows about complex, unlikeable antihero women that we’ve always been getting about men. Rachel isn’t a feminist icon by any stretch of the imagination, and I don’t think I ever really root for her…

Dude, it was in France, you have no sense of nuance. It’s not shitty like it would be if she was a white lady had a “spiritual experience” in some impoverished or war torn country where she had no connection to the culture and came back as some sort of neobuddhist. She didn’t Eat Pray Love herself. She had a…

For real. This is a comic panel. Not from the movies.

But if you want to keep talking outcha ass about how they aren’t connected, go ahead.

Might be a better argument if there weren’t era contemporary comics where Red Skull says it’s literally a cover for creating a fourth reich.

I’m team Early Season 1 Rafael?

I think “bullying” has an intent requirement that isn’t met here — you have to intend to cause harm or irritation of some kind. But I agree that it reinforces the bullying. So I think she’s justified in feeling bullied, but it doesn’t mean they’re bullying her.

I don’t think bullying is the right word, but it’s semantics. There is still a big difference between what they did and just doing something she didn’t like. She might not like a dress they put her in, or the way they did her makeup. But trying to change her fundamental attributes as if she can’t be pretty WITH those…

I agree that bullying isn’t the right word, because I think bullying requires a sort of targeted deliberate offensiveness that isn’t present here. It’s offensive, it’s a kind of microaggression, but it’s not necessarily bullying.

For the record, Tom, I am so deeply sorry that this happened to you. And I’m glad you’ve found a good person who actually likes you instead of pretending to do so for ratings.

You know what is really fucked up about this?

Because I offered a different take without actually saying anything shitty about your opinion, and you responded by ignoring what I said, putting words in my mouth, and then mocking me.

Is it really occam’s razor when we have a note that says their motive was something different?

It does sound just a little bit Hotel California out of context.

I didn’t say that, and I didn’t say his activism is perfect, and I didn’t say that an ulterior motive was impossible? You’re reading a lot of combative shit into my one-line comment that just isn’t there. It just seems like you’re really itching to start a fight with whoever you can. And hey, good luck with that. I’m…

Sure, but even those jokes were pretty borderline. Making a whole Weekend at Bernie’s about it really takes it from iffy to WTF.

As a nonstraights, I agree that fuck Ronald Reagan, but I don’t think an ableist comedy that mocks real people with a devastating disease is at all appropriate, even if that person was a jerk.

So offering my interpretation of a situation is the same thing as telling you that you can never do something?