Exactly, that is the trope I think a lot of people use to justify continually badgering women for sex and or seal assault.

They also should be covered in sweat and dirt and have bad hair and use words we aren’t familiar with, but don’t because a million concessions have been made for modern audiences. Consent should be one of those things.

The spoiler makes me so happy. I am really over Ross. I kind of want Demelza to find some hot guy and have revenge sex.

There’s a difference between “socially acceptable’ and what actually went on in private bedrooms.

Very few men who rape would characterize themselves as rapists.

Even if that’s true and he doesn’t think he raped her, she said “no” three times. She didn’t initiate. She didn’t say yes. She “complied.”

I watched last night, aware of the press about this weeks before the show even aired. It was....rapey. That’s the best way to describe it. Knowing that the production team consciously tried to update the scene for a modern audience* I was looking for the cues that Elizabeth was consenting. There were...some, I guess.…

I wish Jezebel had a lesbian writer for these interviews, especially for a lesbian movie. A gay man is still a man. I’d like to have a gay woman’s point of view on this film. In any case, I hope the sex scenes are not voyeuristic and are as touching and beautiful as in the BBC adaptation.

No. She wouldn’t have discussed it publicly in the way that it’s accepted to talk about non-marital sex today, but there are many, many reliable period accounts of women initiating and consenting to non-marital sex in private interactions.

Wow! He really is the perfect congressman for the tough-on-crime, family values GOP.

“He goes to talk. He doesn’t go to commit a crime. They talk and it seems like there is still this spark between them, this unfinished business emotionally... Certainly, that’s how Ross feels. He doesn’t force himself upon her.”

well shit, i was planning on using my extra $20 bucks to get Solange’s new album, but I might just have to pick up this book instead.

They’re very different. Fingersmith has things in common with something like The Woman in White, with the crazy plot twists, lots of drama, complicated love stories.

Oh my gosh, it’s based on that book!! So two things.

I wanted to see it already, but now that I know its a Fingersmith adaptation I really want to. Its my favorite of Waters’ books.

When Michelle calls him “their candidate” she also reinforces the fact that DT did not somehow just show up from outer space, that he is at the top of the Republican Party, so no matter how much any other Republican candidate disavows Trump the party voters certainly didn’t.

You won’t find anything because this is all their wishful thinking. Meanwhile, they’re mum about lawsuits their candidate has actually been in and lost, and will soon be facing like the Trump University trial that’s starting November 28th of this year, 20 days after the election come rain or shine.

I don’t know if she does it in every speech, but I love that Michelle does not even deign to mention Trump’s name when she speaks. He’s so contemptible, she refuses to acknowledge him beyond the label “their candidate.” Exquisite.

I went to college in NC and, while I was too young to vote my freshman year, there were thousands of fliers up on campus about Jesse Helms. I remember one specific quote—women who are raped CANNOT get pregnant because ‘they’re juices don’t flow’.