Exactly. They didn’t pick her because she’s a robotics scientist, they picked her because she’s gorgeous. It’s OK women, we’ll let you be smart and accomplished AS LONG as you’re also conventionally attractive. In fact, you SHOULD be both. This is not an improvement.

*Shrugs*. I don’t know the man, so I can’t say what his beliefs or priorities are. He’s living his best life, so if he enjoys being a chain-smoking vegan, I say go for it. He can have my share of the world’s tobacco, and I’ll have his share of the world’s meat and cheese.

I see your point, but I disagree with it.

I’m not quite sure what you mean. Can you rephrase that, please?

Wow, a Slippery Slope and Straw Man two-for-one logical fallacy. Congratulations. The man committed a minor sex scandal; he hooked up with a random over Skype and masturbated. That’s not quite the same thing as using an illegal drug known to seriously impair decision making. Nuance and taking individual circumstances…

OMG, I was not aware until this article that maroon could be a noun. When Bugs Bunny sneered ‘What a maroon’, I assumed it was a sarcastic mispronunciation of moron. Does Bugs Bunny insult his adversaries by comparing them to runaway slaves???? If so, that is fucked up.

Depends on your ethics. He may be deeply concerned with animal rights, but not be that concerned about political corruption. People are complicated.

If including scenes shot in parking garages with graffiti is plagiarism, dude’s film plagiarised Michael Jackson’s filmclip for Bad. You don’t get to throw a bunch of generic elements into your work and then get pissed when someone else uses those same elements.

Wow, using a woman from a STEM field instead of a model! How progressive! And how amazing that she just so happens to be thin, white and conventionally attractive! I’m sure they scoured every robotics lab and university in Sweden to find a woman STEMer who didn’t look like a model, but just couldn’t do it. The Swedes…

He’d enjoy that way too much.

Hey, masochists exist. No kink-shaming.

I’m so sorry you were assaulted. MASSIVE respect to you for not only coming through it, but having the strength and grace to help others. You are amazing.

They are beyond lucky they were arrested in Australia and not Indonesia. Indonesia regularly executes drug traffickers. By firing squad. Your stance is a wise one.

Erk!

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is a very reputable news agency...they’re reporting Nieto is claiming to have explicitly discussed payment for The Wall. Mexico won’t pay. Colour me surprised. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-0…

*preens*. That, and deinstitutionalisation, are great words. But so hard to type.

Addendum; I can’t believe I accidentally started defending this guy. I don’t care beans for him as an individual. My worry is the precedent of a blackmail victim essentially being punished for reporting the extortion to the proper authorities.

I also think there’s some very serious questioning to be done of a man who sex-Skypes some random on his government-issue computer over an unsecure Wi-fi network. if you want viruses and hacking, that’s how you get viruses and hacking. I don’t doubt he’s a misogynistic pig and hypocrite and that the legislation would…

Sorry, I’m not familiar with that case. What happened to Hamilton?

Fuck Whoopi Goldberg. This is the woman who declared the Roman Polanski case wasn’t “rape-rape”. If she doesn’t consider this to be “rape-rape”, I shudder to imagine what she does think qualifies as a serious assault (trigger warning; details of sexual assault against a 13-year old).