I had to Google what 'NS Black Metal' was. Ah. Ugh.

Honestly, there are few former neo-Nazi skinheads (and I've had enough run-ins with them as a former SHARP/ARA member to know what they're like) who I might trust as actually having reformed and changed for the better, than some pretentious self-proclaimed liberal…

Oh wait, is this video the same one that Terry Richardson did? *shivers uncomfortably*

That dude just totally skeeves me out. (http://girliegirlarmy.com/lifestyle/2013…)

Hmm, two sexual predators ('alleged' for legal purposes) in a video with Lady Gaga. That's not good. In fact, that's really disappointing considering…

As a cis-male who is 5'4", I feel like I should take offense with the wisecrack about Freeman's height... ;P

... but I don't because really, I have so many privileges of my own that being short is really not that huge and terrible thing that people make it out to be. Kind of a pain at the grocery store trying to reach…

Who said there was? You're the one who brought 'greed' up by calling porn actresses greedy, not me. I don't even disagree with your assessment (re: exploitation), but I would further add that just as there is no such thing as 'greed' per se, neither is there any such thing as objective morality: there is only what…

Apparently you have an inability to think in terms of hypothetical situations...?

And it's only judgmental people like _you_ who make a conscious choice to stigmatize sex for pay and characterize it as a behaviour that is lacking in 'self-respect'. Meanwhile the really odious behaviour within the capitalist system…

Well, it depends on the situation: if a moviegoer's reaction to something some actor, or director said in an interview was so visceral and violent that they can no longer separate the art from the artist, I can totally understand them not being able to watch a certain movie anymore, or listen to their music, or…

Hmm, you have a point there...

Or in Shia LaBeouf's case, not even that. :P

"I'm not defending rape jokes. I'm defending the ability to talk, discuss, and even make jokes about any number of ideas or subjects that could inspire or trigger a small minority of us to do stupid, illegal, or even fatal things."

As an ACLU (and CCLA, the Canadian version) supporter, I'm not against the freedom of…

Yes, I am almost 39 and I was sad to hear about the passing of Dana 'Kimberly' Plato (she was definitely one of my first TV crushes) because _Diff'rent Strokes_ (I think I still have the theme song on cassette that I taped off the TV) was a part of my childhood, and while in retrospect there is this 'white saviour'…

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/s…

The Sun has exactly the kind of readership that totally did not get the satirical nature of Seth MacFarlane's 'We Saw Your Boobs'. One might argue that's the fault of the Sun's readership and not MacFarlane, but any successful satire that manages to successfully skewer the…

I understand what you're saying, that castigating Martin Freeman for facetiously implying that he was the type of person who would drug and rape an imaginary creature seems over the top, but I don't think that people (including me) are taking issue with the putative rape of a fictional being so much as the very act of…

Totally agreed.

It depends who takes care of all that for her, though. I mean, if she manages her own money, owns her own business, etc. it's one thing because that does show a level of maturity that might actually assuage some of the creepiness I feel, but if she has other actual adults doing those things for her, that probably…

Oh, now I see what you mean. But I'm not sure it can be classified as actually being more maturity being forced upon them: more responsibilities to be sure, and it does bring about a certain kind of life experience, but I agree with others who said that maturity can really only come from experience (and often from…

Woh wait, what?! Paul Walker was dating 16 year olds?!

OMG, I had no idea (not that I've actually watched even a single Fast & Furious movie, much as I'm a fan of Vin Diesel).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…On the one hand, he sounded like a super nice guy who died during a charity race, but on the other…

I think more modern scientific studies seem to indicate that the human brain doesn't stop developing till much later than we used to believe, and that it doesn't actually stop growing till mid (to possibly late) twenties:
http://hrweb.mit.edu/worklife/young…

Personally speaking, I think I can attest to the fact that I…

You have a point. I didn't know what Applebee's was (it's not that big here in Canada from what I can tell, although there are a couple around) until I went to one a year or so ago and it was the worst dining experience of my life. If the server hadn't been so solicitous (I suppose being young and attractive didn't…

You know, you have a point there. On the one hand, the punk part of me is all totally down with grannies wearing Docs and dressing like they are in their twenties to challenge ageist (and definitely sexist) notions of what 'appropriate' attire for people of a certain age should be... but another part of me is kind of…

Yeah, I have a female friend who I met online when she was uh, 16 I think? and I was 21. And she was dating a 31 year old at the time. I lost touch with her for a while, but ran into her again on Facebook when she was in her early twenties, and she'd told me how that guy ended up being this creepy stalker and such,…