What’s your point? Yes, we’re discussing depictions of rape in works of fiction.
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I’ve been doing that some lately. In some ways the books are much more disturbing as adults, there are some horrible things I didn’t really notice or understand when I was younger, at least I didn’t remember them.
They’re young enough that you can argue they’re not really capable of consenting to sex, of fully understanding that choice. Add to that the scene happens after prolonged period of extreme psychological and occasional physical abuse throughout the whole book. It happens immediately after the most traumatic, terrifying…
And the serial rapist/murderer in The Dead Zone, and the psychic has to relive his experience of raping and murdering a child to try to help catch him.
I tried to resist, but I’ve started reading the Oathbringer chapters posted on tor.com each week, cannot wait for the full book!! (Tried to resist because waiting for a few chapters each week is bit of torture for a binge-reader like me.)
It’s the only way to be sure.
I tried, I looked, but I couldn’t find anything among those 9,000 episodes that I really wanted to watch, and I can already stream all of the Star Trek TV shows (and most of the movies) on Amazon Prime. Seriously, I really like to watch old shows through again and there’s a lot of recent stuff I haven’t seen yet, but…
Heh, at first I just thought it sounded like James Corden, not that it really could be him, and my thoughts through this trailer were, oh, so he’s basically a really annoying James Corden...which basically is just James Corden...oh, no, it really IS James Corden.
Relationships and character development. I think DS9 did this the best, Sisko and Jake, Sisko and Dax, Kira’s development, Odo’s journey. And while I know they’ll still use the reset button a lot, they need to be better at acknowledging the ongoing, long-term effects of some things, like trauma and abuse.
Seriously, I need a box of these awkward holiday cards
Okay, I found these great cards for “the relationships you really have” by Emily McDowell. Promise, I don’t know this person, not getting anything for this, but I may be spending money I can’t really afford for cards like these. Just wanted to share because these cards are what I needed right now. (Sorry the pics are…
Love your gray babies! Here’s one of my floofies hanging out with a neighborhood kitty.
Churches and quiverfull families. I know one family that snagged one of these when they were expecting their 11th or 12th kid. Of course, some quiverfull families become their own churches.
I think you should try to start calling her on it immediately whenever she does this - just tell her that was mean or insulting and you don’t deserve to be treated that way (or other people don’t deserve it if she’s doing it to someone else). Or that she needs to get used to people occasionally doing better at…
Can’t really give advice in this situation, but it does sound like you could maybe give it a little more time and see how he does if he can get through this depressive episode, maybe you can have some therapy sessions together to discuss this issue.
A really good cheesecake is worth fighting for.
I agree, I got the same sense, also that the LW probably doesn’t have many (or any) other friends to hang out with and that they are probably generally socially awkward and not good with communication and confrontation. <— Not criticizing them about these things, I generally have the same problems.
I think that last LW needs to chill out a bit. Of course friendships change and may taper off as your life changes and you lose the things you had in common, like work. You don’t have to announce it and demand someone acknowledge and clarify the new status immediately after a change. I mean, the thing where they had…
Yes, I feel like they are kind of stuck at this point since she knows all of the details already. They can either cancel the whole think and elope/do something else with fewer people, or just resign themselves to her being there and doing what she does.