I think it’s more ambiguity in the English language to the point that you’d need to make two sentences to be clearer, but the bigger problem is the context. Because we use context to parse any ambiguities and the context is that no matter what, in reality Donegan will be facing potentially very serious consequences,…

Crimson Peak was exquisite. I think it mainly suffered from people expecting it to be a horror movie and getting a beautiful Gothic romance.

Haven’t seen it yet (it’s not out for another few days yet here), but the reactions sound totally normal for a Martin McDonagh play or movie. I’ve seen more of his plays than movies, but they all have a tendency towards the absurd, the cruel, and gut punching you with the humanity of unsympathetic characters.

I think the confusion is grammatical; <i>who</i> is paying the price, and I think you’re mostly in violent agreement. As I read it, you were saying that it would have been strategically sound for Donegan to force Harper’s hand and give them the stigma of doxxing her. Ysubassoon is focused on the fact that either way…

Dominique Strauss-Kahn didn’t move the dial there, so I’m not holding my breath.

My mother-in-law over Christmas conversation: “... if what these women are claiming happened to them is sexual harassment, then every woman who worked in the ‘60s and 70s were victims of sexual harrassment”.

Yes.

From what I remember of the Newsies fanfic I read back in the ‘90s (most of it before Fanfiction.net) the closest to “pornographic” most of it got was schmoopy romance at about the level of starry eyed teens writing about their fictional crushes. Entirely appropriate and to be expected from the audience that made up…

You’ve sold me! 0:22 is just beautiful.

The little differences and niceties that people don’t necessarily overtly notice but are really affected by like proxemics and directness fascinate me! My personal space zone is naturally larger than the cultural norm for most anglo Americans, so learning about proxemics was very helpful in understanding why people…

I traveled a bit in both Italy and Spain, both alone just out of college and later with a partner, and I wasn’t groped either place, and it’s absolutely not generally accepted behavior any more than it is in the states. Not saying it doesn’t happen or that victim blaming doesn’t happen when it does happen, but I have…

Definitely. Also, Geena Davis. And, Uma Thurman definitely gets a look in too for iconic action roles. And Charlize Theron. And I hope we get more Gina Carano, because Haywire was fun as heck to watch.

It’s a pretty impressive skill.

More likely it’s just that visual spelling rules are overtaking phonetic rules because the person in question is typing it not saying it.

I’m not a Hanks stan (nothing against him in particular just not invested), but I think you’re misinterpreting. The only way his comment about it being “liberating” makes any sense is that it’s “liberating” that for once the questions they’re getting from journalists are completely relevant to the movie they’re…

False “meritocracy” narrative paired with the very common assumption that being top dog at one thing or know a lot about one very narrow area means you know more than others about everything. And the Dunning Kruger effect. And the idea that education is supposed to be job training paired with the false idea that…

Oregon is panicking about the possibility of filling up their car without an attendant while this lady does it without arms:

Respectively

Kink is on the civil rights spectrum because healthy and happy kinky people have been treated as disordered and criminalized, and there can be and have been serious legal and social implications for stuff people did keep in the bedroom. Because outing people has resulted in them losing jobs, social status, access to…

That sounds like it could be the response of someone on the asexual spectrum to dating and sex.