I'm on the West Coast and I've never heard of this sandwich before, so it's at least regional in the sense that we don't seem to have it here.

Okay, I agree with that.

I guess I don't really think that was the thrust of the point. It might have been stated hyperbolically, but what I took from it was that people shouldn't see their sexual partners as merely necessary apparatuses for their own pleasure. Essentially, if only one person is ever having any fun, then the fun-haver is a…

Maybe this is semantics, but, to me, if everyone is getting what they want from the sex, I'd consider that they are getting their sexual satisfaction from giving sexual satisfaction.

Fair enough. I think some of it is that I have an aversion to sticking too close to fixed forms when analyzing literature. One too many lectures about hubris in Greek tragedy maybe. I do agree that some of the vitality of English is in its wide vocabulary and specificity. I just think that "tragedy" is a bit of a…

Yeah. I mean I think if someone told me that my needs and desires were irrelevant in almost any context, they'd be dumpable.

"There are women (and men) who enjoy being treated like shit in bed, with an unlimited number of variations on the type and severity of abuse they like to receive."

None of which are similar to "mighty" or "puissant." Phaedra, I'd say, is more marked by her general weakness and lack of any self-control, which ultimately destroys her and also the utterly innocent Hippolytus.

I don't know that I'd describe any of the characters as "mighty".

Romeo and Juliet? Phaedra? The Duchess of Malfi?

Really easy? If you've ever gone hiking in the mountains at the wrong time. I remember mosquitos stinging me through my clothes.

I notice that this avoids the racist and holocaust element, though.

It's really not that hard to avoid making racist jokes.

Yeah - I remember thinking that the girl seemed terribly insipid and dull. I couldn't understand why Poitier's character would want to marry her over the probably countless other bland women he'd encountered.

I don't understand what adults dying in a firetrap has to do with Martin being murdered. White Americans weren't focused on Martin's maturity or ability to "make decisions." They were racists who assumed any black kid was up to no good and thus dangerous. One has little to do with the other. Is this some sort of…

I mean, surely you know a few 18 or 19 year olds who are silly enough or desperate enough to live in unsafe surroundings?

I mean, the word has undergone numerous changes since ancient Greece. Shakespearean "tragedies" aren't the same as Greek ones, for example.

Children constantly make mistakes in judgment that affect the rest of their lives. We still let them drive cars, take out college loans, and join the army presumably because we believe that measured responsibility is good for the maturation process. As consequences for bad decisions go, not getting to go to you dream…

It's been an interesting experience watching this show - utterly unique. I could probably come up with a dozen things I don't like about it, but it's been forever since any show has been able to move me so profoundly (I got choked up along with Cooper when he looked at Sonny Jim) and it just lingers with me even when…

Did I say they were "advocating it"? I believe I said they were making "racist jokes about beating children with baseball bats." And yes, I think "making racist jokes about beating children with baseball bats" is repulsive behavior that shows exceedingly poor character.