Indeed. Every time I bring this up with religious people, they try to weasel their way out of it and then proceed to act as if they adequately responded.

I appreciate the elaborate reply. Cards on the table - I am white, so clearly I do not have the same background and experiences as you. I would definitely enjoy grabbing a drink and having a conversation in real life about this topic, because I don’t think I’d be able to adequately convey my thoughts via a random…

The things I’d do for an Android smartphone with a physical snap out keyboard made by Nokia from the early 2000's... My desire borders on the obscene.

That’s interesting - I did not know that! Deeply troubling, but then at the same time, not very surprising.

Please note that I am not denying that any of those horrible things happened. “White people” have committed tons of atrocities - but then so have people of different skin color all over the world. Racism (an us-them mentality) is universal. It is unfortunately part of human nature. I think it would be more productive…

Black people are much more “disliked” in certain Asian and Arab countries than they are in Western Europe or North America. Just look at the Chinese Star Wars poster someone else posted. Don’t overgeneralize and turn “white people” into the enemy - what good does that do? There's tons of work left that needs to be…

Thank you! Goddammit, the sheer level of hypocrisy and willful obliviousness at Gawker and Jezebel (for both the writers and the commenters) is absolutely mindboggling.

As far as I’m concerned people can do whatever they want. If two people are in a consensual relationship and they’re genuinely happy, who cares about the age difference?

Io9 used to be amazing too! It still could be if returned to its former glory...

Don’t watch the show based on the violence and rape riddled books and then proceed to whine about how the show is too violent and too uncomfortable to watch because of the occasional rape.

So fuckin’ awesome.

How old was that guy, anyway? 70-75? Somehow I’ve always had this idea that old people in the future (as in, the people that are now 50-ish and younger) won’t be as clueless and cliché when they get old. I have zero evidence to back that up, by the way, so maybe it’s just wishful thinking.

That was absolutely priceless. Poor guy.

Add Nutella to that and you’ve got the perfect sandwich. Make sure it’s all spread pretty thick, too. Trust me.

I loved Drive and everything about it, but Only God Forgives truly was, without exaggeration, one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my entire life. And I mean that in both the absolute sense, and the “result compared to potential” sense.

I really like that car. There, I said it.

Holy fucking shit!

Exactly. Besides, Star Wars is incredibly tame when it comes to romance or even on screen kissing. The 7 movies released so far combined have less romantic stuff in them than the average single action movie. Star Wars is very “asexual” in that regard, so I think it’s a less than ideal franchise for stuff like that.…

Some people just desperately want to see a gay relationship in Star Wars. I’m not saying that’d be a bad thing, mind you. I just don’t think it’d be Poe and Finn. It all just feels like such a stretch.

Is it a little weird or out of the ordinary? Yes. So what? Is it so weird or so wrong that it’s relevant to now bring up in this context? No.
So why bring it up then?
Tons of underage girls have (and sometimes even deliberately look for) boyfriends that are +18. Also, tons of (Western!) countries are ok with situations…