Let's not even get started on they guy in drag robotically going "tee hee, okay!" every time. I just. I can't. I'm not saying that this sketch would have fundamentally been any better if they'd hired a female actor to play that part, but damn if it doesn't hammer home the "three guys making fun of women and consent…

Curse you, Kinja!

It's actually very revealing about the ignorance many people have regarding sexual assault. The fact that this guy thinks it is *absurd* to suggest that pressuring someone for sex, sleeping with them when they're too fucked up to talk or move or trying to blackmail them into sex is rape.

That comic was what came to my mind when I read the words "devil's advocate" here too.

In theory playing devil's advocate is supposed to be used in civil, respectful debating when someone attempts to argue from a position they didn't necessarily agree with, but that might help someone see their position on an issue…

I don't care what someone's reasons for not asking girls out is. I was bullied for pretty much all of my school experience and I was generally too shy to flirt with guys until after I graduated college. Does that mean they owed it to me to figure out I was lonely and sweep me off my feet? Does that mean if I had come…

The body scanner registered an actual flesh and blood penis on a trans woman as a groin anomaly. So it has nothing to do with plastic.

The machine cannot tell whether it is artificial or not.

Man, were they at least Chick tracts?

I genuinely would like for there to be a conservative equivalent to The Daily Show (The Colbert Report does not count, silly.) I would really be interested in watching it.

I've seen comedians and pundits try to make things they call conservative alternatives to the Daily show. And they all end up either dissolving into…

All right. I'm really kind of done here. I don't know if you're just willfully misunderstanding, or if you genuinely don't know why anyone might have a problem with, say, a congress largely comprised of wealthy, straight white males above the age of 50 making decisions about problems that affect a more diverse…

The genetic makeup of a person may not determine the perspective they have, but the culture and circumstances they are raised in will. Do you think that a person who has been wealthy all his life and never had to worry about money has the same perspective as someone who has lived their entire life in poverty? Do you…

Reading an article about the Bechtel test? Give the comments section Meta-Bechtel test! For a comments section to pass the Meta-Bechtel test it needs to have:

Well, the idea is still that men are doing the majority of things in the movie's universe. Whether the female character is desperate to get a boyfriend, trying to prove herself to her father or trying to stop a male villain, the story and her actions are still largely centered around the lives of men.

Representation isn't a quality someone can "assert" or not assert. It's a matter of whether someone is there or not. I think you are genuinely confused on that the word means in this context.

OH SHYAMALAYN.

Also your life is not a movie.

Indeed...also I think the idea is not so much to judge individual movies by it, but to look at how many (or rather, how few) pass the test to get a general idea of how much women are represented.

I'm a shorty short mcshorterson myself, but this strikes me as a similar problem to one I have as a busty gal. Anything lower cut than a turtleneck becomes a "boob shirt." I feel your pain.

Full disclosure: My friends and I watched Eastern Promises because we heard it had Viggo Mortensen fighting naked in it. Ended up liking the movie just on it's own merits but that fight scene was too real and painful looking to enjoy the way we thought we would. More power to anyone that does enjoy it though.

I'm so glad! :) I was worried when I was writing it that I was rambling. ...Which I kind of was, but hopefully in a good way.