Between being a culture war battle and a punchline, a lot of people forget Brokeback Mountain is a great film.

Nice! I love her work, but I’ve never seen the original stage version of Fleabag in any incarnation. I’d be fascinated how is compares to the TV adaptation.

Safe sex with a new partner during the pandemic is possible, but only if you follow a very strict protocol:

I don’t think this is quite analogous because it’s generally much easier to give a guy an orgasm. Like, men pretty much always get off during penetration, and women often don’t. So for a man, oral sex is a fun extra way he can orgasm, but for a woman, not getting it may mean she doesn’t get an orgasm during that…

Yeah, that’s what would make it interesting! Like, would people be willing to say things like “she’s a pathetic baby who deserves neither sex nor love” about a woman who prefers not to suck dick. (That’s a real comment in this thread.) I bet they wouldn’t!

Our culture is already calibrated to make women feel bad about everything they do and don’t do. Piling on a woman about her husband’s sexual expectations would be redundant - there’s already a whole magazine rack by at the convenience store for that.

Then it sounds like you need to tell it to your wife

Agreed. Marriages are tricky things. There is no marriage where both parties are going to be 100% satisfied with everything, but generally, we think that if you’re, say, 80%-90% satisfied, that’s a good marriage. It seems silly to blow up a 90% satisfying relationship over the 10% you find unsatisfying.

Well yes, obviously. I mean, I clearly said “maybe there’s a mutually satisfying solution”, not that they’d already found one. My point is simply that Dan seems to use “break up with him” as a bit of a go-to Option A when there may be a less extreme solution that can be found. From the sounds of the letter, she’s also…

it’s telling you didn’t ask for my advice back when you realized your new boyfriend was never going to eat your pussy. (Spoiler: I would’ve told you to dump him.)

MND: Usually I’d say opening your relationship is a bad idea but you were in a relationship where you weren’t sexually fulfilled for 5 years and then went and married the guy, so in this case fuckin yolo it up.

Well, it’s hard not to misgender someone when we were never told in the doc that he is trans.

No. Everything you pointed out is a big, flaming cliché to me, and anyone with at least half a functioning brain. But do go on thinking you’re innovative or original in any meaningful manner. It’s funny.

I think a script like this gets written when two men who weren’t cool in high school try to impress each other with the antics they imagined happening at cool parties, then try to write the more extreme version kids these days are getting into.

I feel like these kids behaving badly movies are always taken to such unrealistic extremes. I mean I am sure some do bad shit but these movies always seem to frame them as “Just normal kids but with one small slide into depravity their whole concept of civilization and morality grumble down and they become monsters”.…

Bob Odenkirk would be a good choice too. Some of Joe’s commercials follow the exact same cadence that Bob uses for Better Call Saul commercials.

Officer Jim Dangle as a security guard at Big Cat Rescue could be comedic gold. I’d watch this trainwreck. 

Danny McBride for Joe or GTFO.

It’s a...fascinating watch. It’s like the lantern in The Lighthouse. I couldn’t look away. Except I was drawn in but didn’t know what exactly it was that I was focusing on. They’re all characters worthy of their own novel. Whew. 

Okay, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Jack is definitely not the least interesting main cast member on Lost.