Gaslighting isn’t exactly “make someone think they’re crazy”, although certainly that was the plot of the movie from which it took its name. It’s more about the presentation of false information with a degree of convincing certainty sufficient to make the person doubt their own convictions, even though their initial…

I think that any advice column has to offer advice on the basis of what the person is telling them, barring extraordinary circumstances; once you start saying, “Hmmm, I suspect you’re probably lying about your boyfriend’s comments because most guys aren’t assholes like that...”

The thing that I think it’s a little difficult for anyone to wrap their heads around who hasn’t dealt with abusers is that they groom their character witnesses just as thoroughly as they groom their victims. Scarlett has no doubt been subjected to just as much gaslighting as Soon-Yi, but it’s directed to a different…

I’ll admit, he’s not out-and-out saying he’s leaving creepy messages for women as far as we know. But he is saying that women love having creepy messages left for them and they find it supportive and empowering, which is basically like saying, “Oh, I didn’t do anything, I just happened to be at the store where all the…

I think Dan’s being way too hard on the first letter writer. “I feel insecure about my body and feel like my partner isn’t attracted to me even though they say they are” is very different from “I feel insecure about my body and my partner says he’s attracted to me but he devotes all of his sexual energy to flirting…

I’ll be honest, if I was a woman I would still insist on a condom and my own birth control even if this was on the market. I have a very low opinion of my gender’s emotional investment in taking responsibility for unwanted pregnancies.

I think it’s especially bad in Hollywood, because there’s a cult of talent--Steven Spielberg, for example, is seen as having a golden touch so profound and powerful that even if he started every shoot off by ritually murdering a pile of puppies, a lot of producers would look the other way. The same is true of lead…

That’s a definite possibility as well. God, that man is awful.

Yeah, I’m suspecting that was a former agent. Marvel’s hiring Tessa Thompson, so they’re clearly not all that bugged about out LGBTQ individuals starring in their productions.

It’s amazing how many Republicans literally want to force other people to stop talking so that they won’t be “silenced” by criticism of their shitty behavior.

YES THEY ARE, BECAUSE THEIR ENTIRE BUSINESS MODEL RELIES ON HAVING A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF DRIVERS TO HANDLE CUSTOMER DEMAND AND THEY CAN’T FUCKING DO THAT WITH ONLY A FEW PEOPLE HANDLING IT AS A SIDE GIG. THEY HAVE TO HAVE FULL-TIME DRIVERS TO PERFORM THEIR CORE FUNCTION, BUT THEY’RE NOT WILLING TO PAY FULL-TIME…

Haven’t seen it yet. DC’s track record is such that even when I hear a good review of their movies, it only puts it on the “When I Get Around to It”. I caught ‘Aquaman’ on a flight to Boston, it wasn’t awful, and I’m sure I’ll wind up seeing ‘Shazam’ under similar circumstances.

I could be wrong, but I think they’ve found that conservative religious types tend to watch porn just as much as the next person if not more. They’re just hypocrites about it.

Sex is a lot more mutable than you make it out to be. There are women who are born sterile—they don’t gestate eggs or make babies, and yet we don’t classify them as something other than women. There are women who are XY, chromosomally, but who develop female sexual characteristics because of the way they gestated, and…

In this case, though, votes very specifically didn’t have consequences. Everyone understood at the time that it was a non-binding referendum. Literally, it was the equivalent of a Twitter poll saying, “Hey, guys, do you think we should do this very stupid thing?” And a lot of people voted ‘yes’ for the lulz, because…

And wouldn’t the world suck if nobody else experienced any personal growth over the last 13 years either?

But damn, her response was fucking amazing. “If you want to clean up politics, maybe don’t nominate an accused child molester as your candidate for Senate.”

It’s totally this. The exact same qualities in a man would be greeted by little starbursts in the eyes of every journalist in America. It’s also telling that they keep putting their complaints into the mouths of generic “critics”.

That, and a lot of preventable deaths in the under forties from things like diabetes, heart disease, liver and kidney failure, accidents and environmental causes... basically, human lifespans haven’t improved since Ben Franklin’s time, but a higher percentage of people are making it into the upper stratum.

As a reminder, it’s okay to let “mackattack23" rot in the greys forever. His comment history is nothing but a howling void of personal attacks directed at people more interesting and intelligent than he is... which is pretty much everyone... and there’s never any reason to respond to his continuous whining.