Andre was a notorious airplane farter. #giantsaremonsters

Thank you! So many people are quick to excuse the Ansari story and other incidents like it by arguing that it wasn’t illegal so it doesn’t count. Is this the highest standard we’re comfortable holding men to? That coercive, selfish and entitled behavior is fine as long as it’s legal?

If only “the worst” kinds of offenses deserve punishment (and who gets to decide what’s bad enough?) then plenty of predators will very deliberately keep to “just” this side of the line.

TIL [has daughter=yes] buffs stack.

It was great. I totally agree. 

Which is weird, because how many comic book nerds, especially the older ones, would have started with the paper equivalent of seeing Avengers first: picking up a random issue of some comic because it looked cool and maybe you recognized one character?  The genre is built on throwing people in the deep end and hoping…

OMG, I picked it up and I want so badly to run a MtG DnD campaign.  I’ve gotten really into the MtG lore, and the Ravnica guide sealed my fate.

Marina Sirtis and I started a “Fuck the NRA!” chant at Gen Con 3 years ago. Glorious.

But I’m waiting in Istanbul!

And then Rand was written out because the producers wanted Kirk to be available to other women and, ultimately, only truly for one woman - the Enterprise. He was also a real prick to Spock in the early episodes of the series.

“Does any woman ever deserve to be put into a position where they are working with a known sexual predator ever again?” 

I’ve got DID. Thank you. If people actually spent a moment and thought about what kind of horrors we had to survive to end up with DID, I don’t think it would be quite so cute or impressive when people like McAvoy do “crazyface”.

Oh and here’s Captain Kirk creeping on a 17 year old (with the mind of a 12 year old),

It’s Tim Robbins! From Anchorman.

Internalized Oppression

THIS.  Exactly this.

That’s a very good point. People use the idea that “it couldn’t happen to me because I’m better than that” to defend their psyches from all the threats in the world. They send victims right under the bus to bolster their own sense of safety through the just world fallacy.

Right, typically there are "Romeo and Juliet" exceptions. I don't think R Kelly falls into that category.

I agree.

No, you are right. That’s exactly the why victim-blaming exists: it gives you a measure of control and a sense of safety in a scary world that is full of monsters that attack people randomly (random in the sense that they don’t punish people who did “something wrong”).