I’ve never been much into weed, but many if not most of my friends prefer it to alcohol. I’ve been around people who smoke weed like some people drink coffee, and I’ve seen those guys get too high off of edibles. I will never ever eat pot ever. I can’t imagine eating too much pot the first time I ever got high.

Two golden opportunities here and they go with just her name. I’m so disappointed.

I don’t love Monica Lewinsky but I was always her staunchest defender against the women of my mother’s generation who demonised her in starkest terms. She was the archetypal younger woman out for their husbands.

When in doubt, blame a woman for a mans actions.

I mean, I feel like you have to be consciously aware that we all know you’re a troll already, based on your comment history here, so... I’m unsure what you’re getting out of all this.

I’m not particularly a fan of Streep’s. She’s had a few roles I liked, and a bunch I’m indifferent to. So, tell me again how I’m just trying to excuse her based on liking her work.

I do not think that means what you think that means.

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What did he do to deserve an explanation? She doesn’t want to have a relationship with him. That’s as much information as he’s entitled to. Her emotional energy and time are hers alone to do with as she pleases, and there is nothing obligating her to craft an explanation for him as to why she chooses not to invest…

Women aren’t even allowed to create openly fictional narratives without people coming in and saying “I really think you were unfair to this imaginary dude you made up.”

lol at “just reverse the genders.” is this the only piece of literature you’ve read? because there are countless short stories and novels told from a man’s perspective as he navigates some sort of relationship with a younger women, as often as not objectifying/infantalizing/abusing her along the way. jesus christ…

So what if they’re both rather unsympathetic? I’ve seen people throw that argument around as if it’s something negative, but I thought it made the story more interesting.

She comes off fine in that story. There’s nothing all that terrible about judging someone as you’re deciding whether to pursue a relationship with them. She questions his taste in movies? She questions his attractiveness? She questions his sexual performance? Yeah, that’s what you do when you’re figuring if another…

You also never met a woman who keeps texting you afterwards just because she doesn’t know the meaning of ‘ one night stand’. Yes, those exist as well. That doesn’t make her a misandrist, just clingy.

Man, if that’s all you got out of the story, I definitely don’t think your reading comprehension skills are really up to scratch. It wasn’t my favorite short story of all time, but I thought it was a very good dissection of the ways in which confusing power dynamics between men and women interact, and the way in…

Which is interestingly contrasted with Japanese media, in which a lot of the Gary Stu’s are set apart by their obsessive compulsive disorders (applied to honing their bodies/skills).

The answer is that we’ve read fanfic.

Your post seems to suggest the fan fiction culture itself isn’t incredibly elitist.

99.9~% of anything creative is shit, man... that’s the nature of having people learn by throwing stuff out there. They get better with time and practice and good feedback. You don’t get the .1% of awesome, free of the rest that serves as a testbed, open distribution platform and support community. You need the rest of…

In the break room at Wizard College, all the professors do is complain about how the incoming students arrive without even the basics of an education.