He really puts the “impotent” in “incompetent.”

“Keep...killing...children...” *dies*

Taco Bell will pay for it!

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.

But I’m waiting in Istanbul!

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.

We’re also taught to victim blame, because it helps the perpetrators continue to perpetrate.

Razor-sharp analysis. There’s a lot of misplaced anger & fear when women blame other women. The unshakeable thought that “It could have been me” is the root of all of it, and since people don’t like to feel vulnerable and terrified like that, some lash out.

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”).