I wouldn’t describe Janice Radway as in any way sympathetic to romance novels, just less aggressively against them than other hardline feminists of the same period. Her attitude to the women in her survey was unpardonably patronising and paternalistic, shot through with snobbery, intellectual snobbery as well as the…

How can this be possible? Isn’t Trump the son of Hitler and Satan? What’s the play here? Why didn’t he make Pizzagate his crusade? What devilish subtle scheme is this?

I’m sure what hyporationality is, severe or not. So I can’t help you there.

Islamophobia is a fear of Islam. That is quite sensible. There is much to fear. It isn’t a blanket hatred of Muslims. And Merkel is no angel.

I’m not sure if you’re for real or not but I will assume you are. Everything you wear or say is a freedom of speech/expression issue, particularly when you want to ban people from saying or wearing what they want in some paternalistic nonsense for ‘their own good.’

Yes, perfectly expressed. Freedom of expression should trump these ridiculous infringements of liberty. Germany has a poor record already, banning swastikas and holocaust denial. Freedom of speech/expression means freedom to wear what is disliked and say and think what is unpopular without legal consequences.

It’s called slim actually, a normal body weight. I loathe Jennifer Lawrence, but not for her figure, which is healthy looking and attractive. West is overweight, or fat to put it in plain language. But casting a fat woman, than than slim one, would make more sense here.

“Colin Firth falls in “love” with Aurelia at first sight, establishing Love Actually’s central moral lesson: The less a woman talks, the more lovable she is.”

She should be at home on Jezebel then, there’s a blizzard of them here.

I’ve not noticed that personally. A lot more of them are a lot more critical of feminism, but that reflects the general population more accurately.

“Here’s hoping Banks will also surround herself with a team comprised of women, gender non-conforming people, and people of color.” Personally I hope she surrounds herself with a team comprised of people of talent, no matter what they look like. But I see you want quotas.

You don’t really argue do you, you rarely make any genuine points, most of your stuff is airing silly SJW propoganda about Trump being Hitler, the stuff that suits your particular agenda and getting your knickers in a twist. Where it comes to militarism and the US-Israel pact you sound more like a right wing redneck.…

No, he’s not free from criticism and neither are you and I. What of it?

What a bizarre idea. That might mean the wrong candidate might gets in power, one less in touch with Wall St. and DC lobbyists. That would never do.

I did.

I think the good ol’ USA is safe for a few years yet.

No, it was pointless. You said that both sides are not equally culpable for bizarre conspiracy theories but give not evidence and simply go straight to insult, which is all you have. It was pathetic.

Oh yes, baby, I feel bad, really bad, I’ve been a bad, bad boy. Are you going to punish me?

Well ‘fast’ implies a value judgment against the girls, but he is entitled to view girls who are sexually forward negatively. And girls do pursue good looking boys, particularly those with high social status. You spoke of a ‘rapist’ which implies belief in his guilt. You may be right to believe that, but we don’t know…

I was talking of the left in general. It was a general point about stupidity and bizarre conspiracy theories being found on all sides, especially at extremes. Read some of the comments here about Trump and supporters if you need evidence of that.