“Why would anyone decide to go through the gauntlet of being trans (or gay!) in our society, rather than just stay their gender assigned at birth and reject gender norms?”

Trans women aren’t real women. And I bet most people, regardless of race, would agree. 

Who gives a f*ck?

I do think he’s guilty, but that sort of sentiment is pretty wrong-headed. Lot of innocent people are targeted by police/authorities, and they have every reason to be scared. Again, I think he’s guilty, I just disagree with the view that being scared because law enforcement is looking at you for a crime is indicative…

Sure......but it feels fairly uncommon. Like so uncommon that you probably need to have some evidence to back up that sort of suggestion. 

The race of the driver 100% matters. Especially with the writer of this article referencing Charlottesville, and positioning this as an attack on BLM. I’m not sure what the deal is with this driver, but based on the language used in this article, you would think this was another white neo-nazi driving into a BLM…

Perhaps. Though people have been killing and oppressing one another since the beginning of time, so I don’t feel particularly guilty of anything

You mean like if police departments were abolished? 

“Trump’s statement is the equivalent of our PM standing in front of Uluru and declaring that it would be called “Ayers Rock” forever, and also that he was enshrining the right of tourists to piss at the top of it.”

It’s French. But yes, I too assume that anything in a language I don’t understand is pretentious. Why can’t they all speak American?!

Glad to see you view child sexual abuse as a partisan game. Kinda a weird take on things, but ok. 

Are you serious? Names in a book prove nothing definitively.

I mean, I wouldn’t really compare her growing up wealthy to the events of that show, which is closer to the real-life horrors of the Ariel Castro kidnappings, but hey, that’s just me!

If you look at the wikipedia entries for any number of celebrities, you’ll be surprised how many of them come from money. Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ dad is a billionaire. 

Yes, because mistreatment of women, particularly in media, is a uniquely American thing. I take it you haven’t watched a lot of European films. 

I’m sure they will eventually. They’ll be missing the point of the character, but since when has context mattered? 

It is the best Batman film. Honestly, I watched The Dark Knight again recently, and outside of Ledger’s performance as the Joker, it’s not nearly as good as I remember from the time. 

“When statues and other monuments stop reflecting current values enough, they get pulled down sharp-ish”

Sure, but we’re not talking about whether Ansel Elgort is just gross or unethical, we’re talking about if he’s a rapist. So discussing whether what he did amounts to rape seems to be at the heart of the whole conversation. For the record, what he did was clearly gross and unethical, and he shouldn’t have behaved like…

“Focusing on the technicalities of legality when a dude who had way more power has painful intercourse with a girl just over the age of consent is also a shitty thing.”