"Here's my definition of rape: If you are allowed to say no to it, then it's not rape."

"I think the show communicated the rape matter quite fine, and with noteworthy restraint. "

I agree with everything you wrote on rape in this ep (and Joe's denseness is just weird given what we saw), but "attempted rape" is a poor description of what transpired between Shane and Lori at the CDC.

"…he (very creepily) asks Beth "how about it Bethy, are we going to work
something out?" and then waits for her to nod before making a move on
her."

"If you think that a band of rapist "cops" who kidnap people and then
imprison them are just like credit cards or our health care system
before Obamacare, you need your head examined."

Probably the dullest Walking Dead episode to date.
The characters and the setting were all weakly sketched, the minimum for a full length show. NONE of the guest actors made any kind of impression. The only thing that kept my interest from flatlining was that I knew the character of Beth. Without that, if 5.4 had been…

Good pronunciation thread, for those who enjoy these things.

Libertarians routinely talk about how they're all about voluntary associations, though.

http://world.time.com/2013/…

Not bad at all. The chemistry between the lead and co-stars is certainly better than the comparably themed Sleepy Hollow, which is all but sunk by the presence of non-actor Nicole Beharie as second lead.

Nicole Beharie is dismal. How did they not kill her off?

I'm surprised how long it's taking AMC to milk TWD. Better hurry, guys.

I did catch that, though it was worth mentioning. The thing is, it's not just that she doesn't talk about it, it's that Maggie is now aboard a bus heading for DC while her sister, alive, is having god knows what done to her somewhere in Georgia.
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It's beyond ludicrous, and was exactly the sort of silliness TWD was…

Yup. Wouldn't this be a lot more interesting with a rather different character from the first film and having him or her spend the first season getting his bearings, trying this or that, getting into fixes…?

No one is saying that a person can't be attractive *and* intelligent,
but praising one gender for possessing both qualities but not the other
is insulting."
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Yeah, TBBT would hever have a show where a woman loses it over a scientist just because he's good looking.
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Wait, what?
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The idea that, for example, there isn't…

A superb, underrated film.

Is that still on? It got off to a great start, then the subject matter was too often self-indulgent and nauseating, like someone steering us into the bathroom to show off a dump they just took.

Refusing to be cowed by those would have us shut up about the attractiveness of intelligent women is starting to take on the sheen of civil unrest. Policing the harmless thoughts of other people is never pretty, and over time veers into the dangerous.
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Google [list of sexy women scientists]. There's a lot of it…

Spelling out explicit reasons, as you did, is the opposite of "mindless." I'd also call the way the men are portrayed when the show is not at its best "disgusting sterotypes." The jerk who can't talk to women. The jerk who is overbearing towards women. The ineffectual, helpless nerd. The jerk wholly incapable of…

" You weren't being cruel, you were being logical. Often that seems cruel to those who aren't logical."
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I just wanted to see that twice.