oh Erin, don't feed the trolls!

And 9/11 was an inside job!

I dunno. You seem pretty worried about it to me. Maybe a hug is needed?

Aww this is getting really adorable. It's really cute when people get scared by other people's experiences that can't be fit into their tiny frameworks and then desperately invoke some definition to make themselves feel better. Keep up the good work, kiddo!

You know you've lost an argument when you take recourse to a .gif or when you feel the need to define words in order to invalidate other people's experiences. Keep up the good work. Trolling ain't easy!

I don't think the OP was trying to censor Ellen Page or limit her, but to point out that she is clearly going for a highly stylized look and didn't entirely succeed.

Nope, you lost. Pretty badly too.

I thought it had more to do with her pandering to his vapid right-wing nonsense than his physical appearance.

that's the joke :)

So ad hominen comments is all you've got to defend your undergraduate-y claims? Isn't it a little weird that if someone disagrees with you regarding your narrow and deeply ignorant understanding of history, the only thing you can do is assume they are religious? You're wrong about your assumption, but either way it…

You have entirely misunderstood my point. I was criticizing the OP for having a dismissive view of the many, many different ways that people use and relate to Christianity. Any historical study of Christianity, going from the Apostolic times to the post-9/11 era, reveals that as a religion it's incredibly flexible,…

oooh SO SORRY. I am apparently tone deaf :(

huh? my comment wasn't serious. the OP's was.

Christianity has been used as an agent for colonialism and slavery, but a lot less than science and anthropology have. The point is that all the tools of European civilization were conscripted.

You have no understanding of Christianity or Christian history. Your mock radicalism is sort of silly and belongs here—on a jezebel.com message board.

I know who wrote this. My 14 year old self, right after starting to jerk off and right before falling right to sleep.

I entirely agree. I really LOVE Star Trek's socialism. My point in referencing it was to argue that what is (today) a controversial vision of society can be embedded in a fantasy/scifi framework and become acceptable. And yeah: the Original Series, for all it's good intentions, can be a little cringe-inducing. While…

Secret implies something hidden. It isn't a secret that sexual violence is hardwired into the human brain. I think it's just better that we are aware of our relation to it.

Do you deny that violence (sexual or otherwise) has a different moral and social valence when depicted in a fantasy setting? Do you deny that is is abstracted from our reality by the storytelling framework? I think you misunderstood my post. I didn't make any generalizations about the people who watch or like the…

I think it's fair to say (and I'd hardly be the first to say—it's basically a commonplace) that fantasy allows a redirection of social and political content. We can accept simplifications and sublimations in fantasy situations that we wouldn't otherwise. That's a big part of the pleasure of fantasy. The…