The "avertising in exchange for media" system is bleeding out. Look at Yahoo Screen's demise — wasn't the whole premise that people would buy things advertised during the shows they were watching, and wasn't the result that nobody fucking bought anything? What does that say about the advertising-as-currency model in…

I'm sorry, I read the whole article and have no idea what any of this means. What's this got to do with Captain America or Iron Man? Is "Mercy Street" an ironically named villain?

Thanks. There wasn't much I had control over, so I don't really know what I handled well. And I genuinely think she's more delusional than sociopathic — I think she knows SOME of it was a lie (i.e. me making her uncomfortable with advances), but I also think she really believes I was in love with her all that time.…

*Sighs mournfully*

Do you have a google alert on the word "insincere" so you can trash talk Fallon whenever anyone uses it?

When she unsheaths the sword, she zaps into a video game, because she is a projected digital construct designed by her programmer "father" to— no, I can't keep saying these words. I can't do it. If Kring wants me to keep defending this morass of ineptitude, I'm going to need a raise.

You're really killing my boner, here.

I don't really disagree with you — I openly admitted that it's largely my own hypocrisy. But I have reasons for being much more comfortable trash-talking men's choices (especially ones in the hyper-masculine sphere) than women's bodies (especially in a way that implies I have an entitlement over them).

All the closeups on him in Ep VII made me so jealous of his amazing skin. It looks so soft. I just wanted to touch his face.

Basic guideline: it's racial fetishisation if you see them as objects for your sexual enjoyment instead of unique individual people. Nobody else can tell you if you do, except you, and I don't think there's an easy test for that. You just have to be on guard against your worse impulses.

I take your points.

You've got a point, but it's just a symptom of my not caring how people (including me) talk about men's bodies. (Also my reply was less about making people feel bad for their choices and more about objectification and ownership of other people's bodies, but that doesn't take away from your point.)

I don't really have anything snarky or funny to say about this. I know some people have a thing against Iñárritu, but I think both he and Miller are both fucking incredible directors.

I upvote every one of your comments I see because of your name.

Again with the multiple replies. Again, sorry, I hate myself for it. But I forgot to say: I think it should be noted that, after my comment, a number of people replied agreeing with me. I'm not saying ten thousand Frenchman can't be wrong, I'm just saying that it's not as if I was some lone ranger overzealously…

I appreciate your responses. I think the original comment IS a part of that tradition of sexism. The more I come back to it, the more I am sure of my original reading (but, admittedly, that is strongly coloured by my rage about the responses that followed).

I'm sick and tired of these allegations. I'm not a pedophile! I just get off on being seen as a monster, and so what if the easiest way to achieve that is having sex with a few kids??

I actually don't get the rationale behind that denial. It lets us all off the hook! I mean, I might have slightly racist preferences, but it's because society has influenced me! Not my fault!!

Sorry to keep replying. I appreciate the spirit of your comment, but respectfully disagree. Perhaps your method is to let small things like that go, but I'm grateful to all the people who've picked me up on things like that over the years, so my chosen approach is to try to encourage greater awareness of how we…

In fairness, when I say "there's a big difference between considering women's bodies aesthetically pleasing and considering them objects for our consumption or pleasure", I should be more accurate: there is a big difference in harm between the two, and a very small difference between the language.