The lawyers also say their client thought the girl was “at least 16.”

Maybe you’re not a native English speaker, but “calm” is a noun, not just an adjective.

Then by all means, mentally insert the “being” in there so that you can grasp what anyone else reading that already has.

Seeing the response to your comment, let me be the first to say how much fake civility types grate on my nerves. Challenge them and watch how quickly that civility act disappears.

No we shouldn’t be telling people to kill themselves.

but rather others who may try to use her success as an example of “see? Women are treated fairly in games, so everything’s fine!”

Headline should read, “Local Branch of Global Pedophile Ring Expels Member for Loving Marital Relationship With Adult.”

The answer to your question is: ‘Yes, you are the problem, and you represent a cancer long plaguing the gaming community.’

Also—why would he know this so well that he can describe it in detail? How many of us have actually seen someone suffocated? Not many I’d guess...

lol HOW IS THIS NEWS TO ANYONE Tarantino has been a creep his entire career. When I was looking at colleges in NYC, my mom and I were eating near NYU and all of a sudden she said, “Look at that crazy homeless person” and pointed at this guy waving his arms and screaming and ranting in the street and I was like mom…

Why is he so familiar with what authentic strangulation looks like?

Y’ALL:

I know his type... I don’t hang out with them, I don’t hire them and I’ve fired a couple of them. Never had one sue me for $38 million though.

I’ve watched CSI. Their had to be SOME evidence. They need that think that lights up bodily fluids, or like, a fragment of a photo that the ridiculously photogenic lab tech could blow up into a fully in focus picture of him. No way you can just go on the word of multiple witnesses and the personal experience of…

They banned him from a club because people complained about his behaviour. They have no business doing a criminal investigation. They’re a comedy club, what kind of investigation do you expect them to do?

While I think a story like this is important to tell, especially as someone who was molested at 11 years old, it really stuck out to me that they are actually going to recreate “graphic rape scenes.” I know the actual 11-year-old actress will have a body-double doing those scenes for her, but i still feel like that…

A quick highlight for folks who may not know: The National Sexual Assault hotline can help folks process trauma even if it isn’t something recent. I know sometime the word “hotline” can make people think that it’s for only immediate crises; if you’re rethinking something from the past and want safe and supportive…

Jesus, this sounds like my story. At 46, I’ve also begun to unpack my sexual history and what I thought was consensual at 14 (losing my virginity to my friend’s 28 year old brother after doing cocaine one evening) was not. I was a child. It’s confusing and I’m interested to see how this film handles it.

HBO? Where foreplay during consensual encounters in a TV series is apparently verboten? Where, if that isn’t enough, they will just center a whole fucking TV show around rape as a narrative gimmick, with a few dragons thrown in there for distraction? And now they bought this film? Interesting.

Nowhere on earth has a rate of gun ownership even close to that of the U.S. Those European countries that allow gun ownership highly regulate it. I don’t disagree that the gun culture in the U.S. is a huge problem, but don’t underestimate the ludicrously easy access.