Serious question because I just don’t get it.... Why is the rooftop tent considered such a great thing?

Don’t be obtuse. Jesus.

Bloomberg was fine to support us outside the presidential election. Period. His presence is fucking the whole race up; he knows that. He’s just so rich he doesn’t care.

You can pat yourself on the back for being in the minority.

The straights are not okay.

Oh my.  Somewhere the “Parents for a Vanilla TV Experience” are getting their knickers in a twist.  I expect petitions and bold statements of “Imma burn all my HGTV stuff” any minute now.

As someone who has watched what some might classify as a disgusting amount of House Hunters (both domestic and international), approximately 75 percent of the heterosexual couples you see on the show make it clear within the first five minutes of their episode that they should not be together.

Oh my god with this whataboutism bullshit.  We have our problems; this isn’t really one of them to the extent that it has been and continues to be in France.  Deal with it.

Off the top of my head, in a case like this, I would probably acknowledge that Weinstein was a shitty and manipulative person who used his position to get what he wanted, including sometimes sex. That it was understandable if the alleged victims felt pressured into consenting yo sex, or manipulated into consenting…

if only it were her job to put on a show of solidarity for her own kind. but it’s not, and from what it sounds like her strategy is pretty effective. while evidently difficult for some to swallow, she is putting on what she considers the best defense possible for her clients. when did we decide criminal defense…

No, you’re thinking of the judge...

this is all true. But there is a problem if they aren’t contextualizing it so that people walk about and think they are glorifying it rather than putting it into context.

I have to admit I haven’t heard of a known pedophile and pedophilia promotor getting one of the most famous literary awards, state stipend and support on all sides...in 2013.

I was going to point out it was a serious problem (statutory rape/low age of consent laws) all over in the 70s/80s, including the US and the UK (famous people like Don Johnson, Jimmy Page, David Bowie, that Rolling Stone guy are all guilty of statutory rape)...but you aren’t entirely wrong that France was/is on a…

I wonder if French law treats or used to treat these actions differently, depending on which sex the minor was.

Grew up in Paris in the seventies and would take the mètro home by myself before I could even read. On the one hand, safe for a boy. On the other, really bad news for a lot of preadolescent girls. Even as a kid I twigged the double standard.

This is why I’ve literally never been able to take French criticism that Americans are too “prudish” seriously. I remember on a school trip to Paris taking the Metro and the locals basically grinding up against female classmates, and then acting like it was a mistake if they turned around the face them. Like, it was…

How does the word assault not directly mean crime...?

“At the time, people talked of inciting a minor to debauchery, or indecent assault...But nobody ever spoke of crime,”

“but there’s no rust...”