It’s the online equivalent of being a flasher. Why do flashers do what they do? To startle, scare, or humiliate women? Unless a guy tells me otherwise, I’m going to assume it’s about humiliation.

I disagree. I think a lot of men actually don’t care that much about their wives or girlfriends (sad but true), but wouldn’t want their mother to know that they’re engaging in gross sexual harassment of a stranger. I think “telling on” a man to his mother is the ultimate way to get through to this kind of guy. Very…

there is a website that rates dick pics for artistic merit (no size-shaming, just composition etc.). it’s run by a woman with a background in photography and she does a pretty good job of giving actual critique.

As a mother I wouldn’t want to see it, but if any of my four boys did something like this I would surely wonder what the hell I did wrong. And the recipient sending me the proof of their misogynistic bullshit would not make me mad at her, but they would get the FULL weight of my shame in their ear (or text messages.)

I hope I’m wrong but I’m guessing she receives her fair share of slut shaming from the wives and girlfriends (‘why don’t you cover up then?’ ‘Or maybe don’t dress like a stripper or porn star!’ Etc). I doubt all recipients respond this way but I can imagine many would lash out in embarrassment or hurt or shock (at…

Leaving out the egregious line-crossing by these dudes for a moment and speaking purely aesthetically... is a cellphone-shot, context-free amateur dick pic even remotely attractive? I mean, I’m sure there are a few, but in general? Dicks- and I’m speaking as an owner of one- are fun and functional but deeply…

Can someone who has sent an unsolicited dick pic explain this phenomenon?* I’m being totally sincere because I don’t really understand it.

This is awesome. I would totally wanna know if my husband was acting like a douche. I wonder what kind of responses she gets from the women?

I love her Xenogenesis trilogy. I wish she would have lived longer. I’m sure she had a lot of other great books inside her. Kindred was also awesome.

I think he’s cured at the end. The marks remaining are just scars left over. A visual metaphor showing us that he’s been changed by his journey, even if the curse has been lifted.

Hardly a translation error when you can plainly see the direct effects of leprosy on the characters, complete with lost limbs.

I believe it is sometimes used to refer to someone as a pariah or outcast, but I rarely hear the term used much outside of biblical references.

Considering historical treatment of lepers, it could be in certin times/places.

That and why they are all so loyal to her. Most people wouldn’t come close to a leper while she seemed willing to personally help them on a daily basis and entrusted them with her most important job.

I mean, I thought knowing this was integral to understanding Lady Eboshi’s character. All of the people that worked for her came from two groups: lepers, and former prostitutes. Essentially she employed outcasts that would normally have been shunned, making that aspect of her very humane and caring.

Ahh but you forget how thick the general movie going public can be. “Wait wait Alien is about sexual assault? Nah bruh you’re just reading too much into it. It’s just a movie!!”

Yeah. I remember clearly understanding that the characters clearly were lepers back when I first saw it as a dumb high-schooler in the late 90s, so it couldn’t have been that subtle. I’ve never heard it described as an ‘urban legend.’ That seems silly.

Wait, the fact they were lepers and discriminated against elsewhere was an urban legend? I thought that was a super obvious part of the story.

There’s nothing easier than to sing praise (or say it was nearly completed when in fact it needed a couple more years or more) to a game that was never released... because a bunch of things that turns a cool concept into a shitty game can come later in development, can be forced by investors, among others.