Consensual sex can be problematic, yes. Of course it can. If the legalistic, binary language of consent is the metric by which you assess questions of morality, then yours is bound to be an un-nuanced morality.

she likely experienced ‘trauma bonding’ and as a result views it positively

Trauma is no joke. None of it is your fault and you are not fucked up. It’s just human physiology, frankly. You experience something like that and it gets encoded to your amygdala in your brain. Your brain won’t let you get over it because it thinks by walling you inside that kind of pain it is protecting you from…

That’s not what he said. He said it’s ridiculous to want Trump to fail because it’s bad for the country. What is wrong with us that we cannot actually address what the man said and have to create phantom narratives that imagine somehow Brian Cranston is a Trump supporter? It’s infantile and it isn’t true. If something…

This doesn’t surprise me at all. People who are insecure bully. People who are insecure crusade on facebook. Just because they happen to rally behind an ostensibly good cause like #metoo or BLM doesn’t mean them doing so isn’t part of a pattern. A good cause is a terrific way to feel superior to others and protect…

Of course not. Developing shields against that kind of hatred and cruelty is the reason she is the way she is. She was traumatized as a kid, very obviously, and her whole personality is a defense against re-traumatization of exactly that sort. Same goes for Milo, who has admitted to being raped by pedophiles (surprise…

Gotta tell ya, I work in the biz: if you think sets are safe for women (or men) during rape or sex scenes, even on SAG productions, you’re naive. Imagine if you went to work and your boss had the power to get you to perform sexual scenarios and act out rape and other forms of abuse, then think about what a lot of…

This whole thing is vile. I’m not the person to be like “can you imagine if a man did this” about everything, but holy shit, can you imagine if a man did this?

This would be vastly preferable. I hate that Marvel and Star Wars are encroaching more and more upon the flagship parks. ...It sucks. That shit is so Universal Studios, man. Disneyland is about classic Americana. It should be above that shit.

I am shocked that anyone could still regard the Clinton campaign, or any remnant of it, as a symbol of hope for America. She was a terrible candidate, and it was a hopelessly run campaign, and it’s a good thing she never became President. She’s not “the resistance” and she never was. Those who cling to her irrelevant…

The Smash Mouth memes are fun. This article, on the other hand, is emblematic of the worst of Gawker, which seems to have a talent for hiring people who are far too old to still be acting like the cool asshole at high school that nobody actually likes, yet somehow manage.

Casino Royale is feckin’ amazing.

Idris is way too old to play Bond for several consecutive films. I’d like at least two more from Craig honestly. He’s been fantastic. Give him a fun, standalone Bond that isn’t weighed down by being part of the main storyline, then bring him back one last time to finish out the Blofeld storyline and lay some of his…

You honestly don’t seem all that sane. Sorry, but this is ridiculous. You know nothing about this person or her former dog.

Which is why you should recognise that this controversy is manufactured and that this article is ridiculous. Do you REALLY think he’s acting in an eight hour play on the AIDS crisis, and that the only prep he’s doing for it is to watch Ru Paul’s Drag Race? I mean... do you REALLY?

Read the original article people. He didn’t say he prepared by watching Ru Paul’s Drag Race. He said he watches it in his time off and made a silly joke about how that means he’s all the way gay except for not being attracted to men: the joke is intended to be ironic, in that it’s impossible to be gay without same sex…

“Sansa’s rape wasn’t horrifying enough for viewers, at least not in the eyes of the show creators. In order to make it truly awful, her suffering had to be viewed through the lens of another person.”

Concern trolls do not wish to acknowledge this very obvious point. Perhaps the scene shouldn’t have happened at all, but the pan to Theon was done so as to mitigate the trauma of watching Sansa be raped. That somehow lingering on such an event would have been “better” is ridiculous.

I think the way women and sexual violence are depicted in Game of Thrones is completely fucked up, but I don’t think the choice to let the camera linger on Theon is as you imagine it. They chose to show Theon’s reaction so as NOT to have to show what was happening to Sansa. It wasn’t about Theon. He was somewhere to…

This is a narrative that needs to die. Sexual assault happens for all kinds of reasons. The “it’s not about sex it’s about being gratified by power” meme two-dimensionalizes a complex, multifaceted issue.