The more you valorize masculinity (by associating it with the active, often penetrative, role), the more you despise victims (who have, in your eyes, “lost” that masculinity). It’s beyond gross.

Agreed. Though I’m starting to suspect exploitation of the vulnerable for crotch gratification may be as universal as the law of entropy.

Opinion as a cosplayer: Everything I’ve ever cosplayed, prominent boobs are no, has been for me and me alone. I know that’s not the same for everyone, but assuming that women cosplay for men’s attention erases a lot of amazing women out there who do it for their own happiness.

There’s a shocker. Who saw that coming????

Since her story is set in the 1920s, she could easily have come up with something cutesy like “Normas.” Or “MDs” for “magic deprived.” Would have sounded appropriate, imho.

If you can’t see anything wrong with that, how about this:

Because you are completely removed and unaffected, unlike the Native Americans who are being shit on, again.

I think it’s just a predictably British outcome. Like many of the UK’s most famous pop-culture properties (See: Who, Doctor and Python, Monty), Harry Potter is inexorably rooted in British-ness. Hereditary class/nobility, Public schools, the legacy of both the colonial era and WWII (and in particular the “stiff upper…

I love Harry Potter so much but it doesn’t scale. It works in the confines of a school in a small country. Trying to apply it world wide is where you run into massive problems because not everything can fit into it’s sandbox (how would the magical community explain the Holocaust?). American history is particularly…

Even though the concept of a United States of America didn’t exist until the late 18th Century.

I love the observation with that image that the husband and Christ umbrellas are doing a shitty job at being umbrellas since they’re clearly leaking. Only the wife umbrella is pulling her weight.

I would say that society wants men to be in control. If women and children are harmed along the way, well, they’re only women and children.

You read the police response to their daughter reporting her father had raped her? That’s more common than you think. Calling the cops often makes the abuse escalate. With that many children, she probably felt even more trapped. If the police didn’t help his daughter, why should she have believed they would help her?

It seems like the failure was more than just the law, but a society that seemed unable to offer this woman and her family safe and reliable options to report and escape the abuse for decades on end. And this is clearly not exclusive to France.

this is a little defensive for a valid point about being offered a chair?

On the other had, dude’s blocking the passing lane so fuck him.

Maybe you are right, I don’t understand people like this. I just have trouble understanding why he is so invested in defending something that he has no idea about.

Watch the full video, the “blocker” was passing a slower car, and giving someone from the on ramp room to merge. They had every right to be in the left lane. The tailgater was 100% at fault.

The fact is that Yale has no history of expelling people on mass for sexual misconduct. In 2015 only one person was expelled for it. To support institutional overreactions you would need nearer 100% of students acccused to be expelled and that is not the case. If you read Yales’ report of the 5 complaints of sexual…

I can’t believe his childhood friend or father are unbiased when it comes to their opinions on the “facts of the case”, I imagine they are very much the facts of the case as Jack Montague presents them, where everything points to his innocence.