That actually would have never occurred to me. Is this how they say good-bye in your culture?

If someone said they didn't know how to put in cream and sugar, I would assume they had a developmental disability or Asperger's or severe social anxiety or something. Are you sure that wasn't the case? I guess I'd rather accidentally coddle a spoiled man than throw off the routine of someone who worked really hard to…

That's why I think he must have groomed her. You can partially brainwash people if you are in a position of power over them over time, make them forget that they won't lose everything if they don't do the thing the abuser wants. According to the suit, he wore her down to the point that he convinced her that he was in…

With a few tweaks I feel like this can easily be brought up from a 6.5-7 to at least an 8 on the "Practical Superhero Outfit" scale, allowing for the fact that she literally is a goddess and the obvious Xena references. Slightly more practical boots and little shorts under the kilt would do it. I just don't want it to…

Most of the rumors of his "affair" with Rihanna started when she was 16, which even most "Carter-Knowles Truthers" find to be unlikely. I mean it's possible he has hit it since then, but most of the recent rumors about the two of them have been of the "Jay-Z + Literally Every Woman Under 40" variety.

You would be surprised how many people think that asking for "cream" in their coffee just means milk.

"Why not both?"

Match Point or possibly Vicky Cristina Barcelona. He started to move out of his "old guy fucks barely legal (or not) child" thing and then had a relapse. The last 3 or so (minus Blue Jasmine) haven't even been pastiches of his old work. They are literally just bad propaganda films for old guys and young girls doing it.

Making the heir to Dorne a boy just totally ruins the significance of Dorne. Like, what do these dudes have against women? The source material isn't exactly a feminist wonderland itself, but it is clear that the author and the book do not hate women, understands that women are people under duress not automatons. I do…

I think Malia is the blur behind Sasha that Michelle is talking to.

I think I understand the appeal so much better than I used to. It's not about the sex, it's about fantasizing there is a young man who behaves and dresses like a 60 year old man.

I take the fact that she had the job at all as evidence that something hinky was going on.

The way that Christian Grey is obviously based on a much older woman's sense of fashion and attractiveness retrofitted to some sort of Twilight-Youth ideal?

Oh no! I was saying she deserves that settlement! I mean I think it was likely that she was being targeted by a predator from the beginning. I think it goes beyond sexual harassment of a coworker and more it's that he groomed and abused a young woman under the guise of jump starting her career.

I don't think any of this is her fault and there is absolutely nothing that excuses how she was treated, but I think it was likely that she was being targeted by a predator from the beginning. It's not that he misinterpreted an unrequited workplace crush, it's that he groomed and abused a young woman under the guise…

Oh absolutely. It's just really sad.

It's different because it's not a corporate relations finance job and well, yeah just because Nick isn't going to sexually exploit her doesn't mean they didn't specifically hire her because she was likely to be more mentally pliable than the 40something Dodai (who completely deserved it). I mean, he hired Jessica Coen…

There is no way she deserved this and I am entirely on her side. That being said, when a 24 year old is hired for a job like that there is no explanation aside from A)Daughter of Major Player B)Boss wants to terrorize her sexually.

This is a pervasive problem and according to the short informal poll I took via gchat, only one person had ever worked in a restaurant that formally scheduled contingency shifts, where someone was "on call" to trade shifts with someone if something happened or someone was sick.

Maybe she can't bear to fuck him.