It’s the misbehavior of your friend’s girlfriend. In this case, it’s a conversation starter. It gets people thinking about romantic relationships, lets you talk about a lot of aspects of those relationships, but is still low stakes. I think it would be great, if it weren’t associated with PUA culture. The problem…

I’m not trying to be rude, but I had to skim through your history to check to see you weren’t a troll. As it is, how can you read that and think the guys are “trying to be attractive.” Negging women is attractive? Having women tell you they’re not interested and still badgering them relentlessly is attractive?…

This is a great question and one that I’ve been thinking about a lot. It seems cruel to tell people that what they thought was a pleasurable if imperfect relationship was actually trauma and abuse. At the same time, what else am I even supposed to say about an adult and a 13-year-old? At that age, kids are so…

You know they were dying for an excuse to paint it over.

My laptop sometimes highlights what I type when I lean my hand on it the wrong way. It then deletes and/or reinserts stuff at random as I type. Then when I try to correct it it does so more. I’m guessing it deleted stuff and I retyped part of the sentence not noticing the dangling “icti”.

This is shown to us in the court system. Anyone who is personally connected to either victim or perpetrator is dismissed from a jury. They know that stuff messes with your ability to be rational.

“I hope she’s had a conversation with Aziz about how to stop being a predatory date, but is it really her place to be asked about this in public?”

The problem is, it being an open secret is part of what keeps people from talking. Everyone knows and no one cares, so who do you talk to? Dave Chappelle (who has said things I consider wrong) said something I consider right about the path out of apartheid in South Africa: “People in a corrupt system aren’t…

Please let her use a terrible Boston accent. Let that be what they use for continuity.

Thinking about it, it’s not about her being a perfect victim, but being a better activist. Those two things are not the same. The best movements in history had lawyers and PR people and worked around the clock to present their case and build broad and sometimes difficult coalitions. (Incidentally, so did the worst. We…

Ideally, she’ll show some understanding to others who worked with problematic people. I’m not saying this to be mean to Rose McGowan, but because there seems to be a major problem with the movement and she can be a force to correct that rather than exacerbate it. I think it’s good that she’s not perfect because I hope…

I’m loving the fun people are having. I’m also getting a real “I’m the new Space Pope” vibe from a lot of the outfits.

Getting back to you a bit late. I find it interesting what sets off a moral alarm in people. Movies are frequently sympathetic to thieves and serial killers, but we don’t say those are immoral. Superhero movies frequently make heroes out of people who commit torture, war crimes, and invasions of privacy in the name…

Thank you for expressing that angle of criticism. I understand why seeing something that can do such damage shown as romantic can be infuriating. Again, I agree criticism is important. I think the gay men who feel that it normalizes something that’s a problem in wider gay culture should talk about it, and the gay men…

Spoilers:
I’m not sure of what “pose the question” means to you. The film does have the older character express that he doesn’t ever want the younger one to “regret” the relationship or feel that it “messed him up.” As for why the older character falls in love—the film has a lot of scenes of them talking, flirting,…

1. I know, not think, know, that a sequel to that movie is a terrible idea.

If they’re smart they’ll get Denzel to present the award.

It’s weird until you realize that the Christians created the Upside-Down. They’re the ones who decided to turn their religion, supposedly about helping the poor and forgiving sinners, into one of bigotry and oppression and then force it on other people.

* “think” not “thing”

Translation: I’m writing a shitty book.