I just kind of think that the text buildup and the “whore” at the end, while being a thing that DOES happen irl, went a little far to make Robert the villain of the piece. I would have preferred it left off so people were forced to just think about where they fell without being told who the bad guy was.

I’d feel the…

“no one remembers a damn thing about it other than there were dinosaurs and people running from those dinosaurs, and that one of them was Bryce Dallas Howard in high heels. You may also recall some sort of scene where Chris Pratt leads a velociraptor motorcycle gang that you possibly hallucinated.”

So, you’re pretty much just a troll then? Got it.

Jesus, this site needs an ignore button.

That’s not an example. That’s, like, the opposite of an example. I asked for one specific example and you wrote “every interaction Xander has with a woman!” which 1) isn’t what I asked for and 2) isn’t remotely true.

You need to go back and take another look at Whedon’s work with a critical, objective eye.

Please, give me an example in Whedon’s writing of a male character lecturing a female character about how “mean they are to men.”

Yeah it wasn’t like Xander screamed at Buffy for running away and never got called on it.

You realize the point of that scene was that she was manipulating him for information, right?

...have you seen anything Joss Whedon has done? Because what you are describing doesn’t sound like anything he would write. Not Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel or Firefly or even Dollhouse. Heck, it doesn’t sound like Avengers either.

I don’t know if that’s true - At least on here (pre daughter killing) there were plenty of people who were citing Stannis as a favourite, of not at least one of the show’s most interesting and watchable characters.

Great, or even good, players aren’t that way because they’re ‘used properly’.

This is true of every business I’ve ever come across, not just the football business.

Every time I see this kind of baloney, it only reinforces my belief that Bill Belichek is less some kind of evil genius than he is the Only Sane Man in the position of head coach in the NFL. Because you know the rap on Brady, that he is merely a bewilderingly good “system” quarterback? Well, that might be true, were…

You’re right. To hell with systems. As a Lions fan, the best example I can think of is Marty Mornhinweg when he showed up in 2001. Mornhinweg was hopelessly devoted to the West Coast Offense. He was rigid for the WCO. He also inherited Charlie Batch as his QB.

It makes no sense to me that in a sport where the quarterback has evolved into possibly the single most important skill position that every team does not try to maximize what that QB does well and minimize what he does not. Fuck systems. Your only system should be “What’s gonna win us games?” Taylor is a perfectly…

“Very similar-looking”

Personally, I just wished they’d stop. WB had one shot at getting this thing going, and they flubbed it. When I think of Marvel movies, I think of breezy fun that’s mostly inconsequential. When I think of DC, I think of my asshole college roommate blasting his tool CDs, and trying to teach me about moral relativism…

That kind of seems like a lot of words to say “people who think LOTR is a slog aren’t as smart as me.” It doesn’t harm you if other people don’t enjoy reading Tolkien. Why the vitriol? People can have different aesthetic assessments of creative works without being intellectually deficient.

This makes no sense at all. In fact, the more you’ve read, the more good books you’re likely to have come across to which you can compare LOTR and realise that it is, in fact, a slog.

His admission guarantees the compensation will come. I’m sure he and whoever helped him craft that statement know that to be true. Whether the plan is to let the women bring a suit or to reach out to mediate/arbitrate a settlement, who knows, but the direct, plain admission of guilt means they’ll get compensated.