I can see it as an appreciation of “outsiders”, but the idea that an elite, self-chosen force is needed to protect the world from ineffectual governments doesn’t seem to jibe with the broader modern left.

Snowpiercer is a good one. The Matrix is tricky - obviously there’s a pretty clear “exploitation of the masses” theme, but there’s also a fantasy element about letting extraordinary people be extraordinary that tends to be liked by the right (it’s not that far from, say, Ayn Rand), and of course it’s been adopted as a…

Are we, uh, defining buying twelve year olds legit actual handcuffs and sex toys and encouraging fourteen year olds to start exploring the BDSM community as “normal age-appropriate activities” now?

I doubt either of these letter writers would have any confusion figuring out what to do if their vanilla heterosexual 12-year-old boy lobbied them to buy a fleshlight or a subscription to threeinputrussianwhores.com instead of handcuffs or a vibrator. 

Yeah, that was a really weird false choice there. As if, obviously, you couldn’t talk to both a leather daddy and a child psychologist about this. Heck, Dan couldn’t even be bothered to find a single one of those BDSM experts who was actually, well, a daddy, and was willing to address the question from their…

My complete lack of upvotes demonstrates what humans think about wry asides, around here. Alas, Trump has killed subtlty in the American diet.

You know, “advice.”

I’d rather be wrong in the direction of him being surprised by how much a woman is willing to do than wrong in the direction of him expecting women, in general, to act like porn stars in the bedroom.

For him and me, personally, the action movie comparison is pretty good because that’s an interest we share. Like, he…

My mom just went with, “Real woman don’t want to be treated like like that. Trust me, I’m a real woman.” Worked fine.

My son would lose interest about a quarter of the way through what you just said and start thinking about something else while I droned on.

This guy gives such shitty advice. I’ve had a number of friends fuck up their lives for years listening to this doofus.

“Good Old days”

 . . . And nothing bad ever happened when young boys trusted their priests with private, sexual matters. 

i remember before you humans had the internet, you’d ask advice from priests and the like. Things were simpler back then.

 How dare you kink shame... uh, 12 year olds? (just beating someone else to this comment and actually being sincere about it first)

You are riveted to your keyboard right now waiting to see what I will type next. Riveted.

That you’ve insisted on proving my point? Totally.

So, did you just wipe the previous decade from your mind? Trump endured three years of constant mockery during his campaign (and more before that,) and it only helped him get elected.

Agree, and what bothers me is that mocking them seems also disrespectful to the people they killed somehow and the real terror that they inflicted on millions of people. It wasn’t funny if you were a Jew and your windows were smashed in the night and you were dragged to a concentration camp.

They lost because they were fighting the entire rest of the world with limited resources. Do you know anything about military history?

I don’t actually like Brick that much - it suffers greatly from the comparison to Veronica Mars, and ultimately prioritizes style over substance (something that applies to most of Johnson’s oevre, honestly)...but complaining about the dialogue misses the point entirely.