mitchellconnor
Mitch Connor
mitchellconnor

I don’t think it’s misogyny or that Dornan is a misogynist. If it’s less “acceptable” for a man to do this than a woman, though (and I mean the way we perceive it, it’s shitty no matter what), it’s because women being followed and harassed by men is a somewhat common social problem while the converse — though when it

Women can also stalk, but I think the privilege here is in his not immediately realizing that to be a woman with a strange man following you is incredibly frightening, which is why he also didn’t realize how fucked up it was to potentially make a stranger feel unsafe — because he doesn’t have to think in those terms

Yeah ... well ... maybe the flack he’s getting will make him clarify that it was a shitty move on his part and not a fun albeit creepy experiment? Idk.

The issue is the lady doesn’t know his intent wasn’t malicious, so he still might have made her feel unsafe, which is shitty.

Yeah, it’s not cool. It sounds like he realizes that now, so I’m not going to get my pitchfork, but even if you don’t intend any ill to come of something like that, putting a stranger in a position where they might feel unsafe for your own edification is shitty.

I’m sure if twitter were a thing when Jon Stewart took the job, and we looked at his tweets from the previous 5 years, a few of them would be terrible.

Yeah, I used to get stopped by the Mother God people all the time. They were super earnest and seemed pretty harmless, so I tried to be nice to them, but worried that I was giving them false hope. One lady I was like, “This sounds interesting, but I really have to go feed my cat.” And she was like, “IS YOUR CAT MORE

Scientology should also join the fight against ISIS. I think ISIS would benefit from scientology's teachings.

Lordy. When they started showing Tom Cruise talking about Scientology in the doc, my boyfriend and I looked at each other and were like, ermahgerd he is Frank TJ Mackie IRL how does he not see it?

I got one. It was from a group trying to give away copies of dianetics on the street, so I don't think it was the full effect but it boiled down to "Hold onto this coke can. Okay, do you ever feel sad about life sometimes? You will benefit from Scientology's teachings." Legit.

Yeah ... like ... how? ... really?

If the 2% tax isn't enough to make healthy food cheaper than junk food, I think you're certainly right in the short term, though it will be interesting to see if the programs they're implementing in conjunction with this help build more sustainable infrastructure to make healthy food more widely available/cheaper.

Read the article you posted. No new information there, just Dershowitz's opinion.

You mean the interview where she didn't have a lawyer present, of which no recording was made, and in which the translator was assisting the police rather than simply translating?

Also, on the second point, while that clearly looks bad, and is fucking terrible for her boss, it probably says more about the interrogators than it does her. If you look at, for example, the Central Park Five, many of them implicated each other, because they were told after a long interrogation that the detectives

What was the evidence against her again?

It's pretty solid. Not my favorite but worthwhile. Gosling is pretty good. B Coops, who I want to not like, is fantastic. Ben Mendelssohn also makes an appearance, which is nice.

For a second I was like, wait, isn't this guy like, 23? But Jessica Williams is too young to take the reins? But then I saw he was in his early 30s...