So they’re taking Nic Cages face off and putting it onto another actor’s... They should make a movie about this.

Now might be a good time for you to watch (or re-watch) Rashomon.

So I sat with my wife to talk about this article and she explained how the situational pressure can be enough to remove consent. I’m a 36 year old, college educated, liberal, who wants to understand, and It took a woman who knows me well an hour to get me to understand how it could be considered that there wasn’t…

again, why does it fall on men to be ‘educated’ and not women to be more assertive, as well? why do they take no responsibility in these situations? isn’t it possible women are sometimes not clear enough? is making pretty much everything potentially rape really a solution?

In her recounting of the events the only time she said no, he stopped. There’s a text to her friend where she claims “she had to say no a lot” but considering that she never mentions that in her graphic recounting of the evening, I would probably put that as what she was feeling as opposed to vocalizing.

She also said earlier “She says he then resumed kissing her, briefly performed oral sex on her, and asked her to do the same thing to him. She did, but not for long. “It was really quick. Everything was pretty much touched and done within ten minutes of hooking up, except for actual sex.”

Although I know this breaks…

My god... he didn’t force himself on her. That line seriously needs to be change. He didn’t rape her, and didn’t do anything like that. He was pushy, and sexually assertive/aggressive. That is not rape. She could have left. He is guilty of being horny and pushy about it too early. Instead of leaving she literally…

I know this isn’t exactly a ‘hot take’, but if we want real change, men (even beloved powerful old men) have to be held to account for their actions. Good for Oliver for doing his job. It’s Hoffman’s fault he gave shitty answers, just like it’s Hoffman’s fault he did shitty things.

He’s like this all the time.

The nuance that seems to evade almost everyone is that of course Trump is right that the national media is antagonistic toward him - they are toward every president. The differences now are a) he deserves it, b) he can’t handle it and would like to put a stop to it, and c) the media itself still hasn’t adjusted to the…

I just don’t get the idea of Luke as a super wise always does the right thing good guy in the first place. He beat Vader by getting pissed and using his emotions. Of course he could fuck up.

SO agreed. Being sentient sucks.

Sometimes it feels like the bulk of human effort is put into denying this simple fact.

I like the focus on failure and disappointment and putting Luke’s life in the context of those who went before him - Yes he failed in his hopes of making the universe better by building a new and lasting Jedi order, but the good parts of the Jedi hopefully will go on carried by Rey.

Yeah but this one tiny nitpicky thing ruined RUINED RUINED! the movie for me and therefore everyone else!!!

Well said. I mostly loved this, but hated a bit or two, but man trying to explain that to people and they just go crazy. I saw the original Star Wars in the theater 12 times (I was 8—talk about target audience) and have seen every one of them since in a theater at least once, and several of them multiple times. There…

“For my 44th Bday, my wife and I had a 3girl, 1 guy 4some with 2 dancers without having to spend a dime.”

I didn’t think it looked silly. I thought it was a beautiful moment and made me emotional. And yes, why people think she was “flying” confounds me, when you clearly see her hand reach out, for the door, and then floating towards the door. Maybe it says more about the state of science education than anything else.

I believe the Knights of Ren were the Royal Guards in Snoke’s throne room. Someone in another thread noted how Luke said Kylo took off w/ 8 of his students and killed the rest, and there were 8 guards.

I thought the movie did an interesting job underlining how profoundly lonely Rey is in some ways. Her parents abandoned her, her would-be mentor is frightened of her power, the person who best understands her is a psychopathic dictator, and even Finn is fundamentally different from her. Luke was always defined by the…