If people need religion to not be an asshole, they are an asshole.

Church camp is where my husband felt his first boob. He also witnessed a blowjob. My children are NEVER going to church camp.

Sooooo much this. People are so freaked out about Atheists not having any morals, but that hasn’t stopped religious people from being assholes for over a millennium!

My guess is the parents had a role in shaping this behavior.

The biggest bullies towards my sister and me in school were the Jesus-iest girls ever. They attended all church services, youth activities, retreats, etc. And these girls made damn sure to let us know, especially when adults weren’t around, that our entire family would rot in hell for all eternity. Another girl told…

These parents aren’t setting a great example for their girls by actively promoting the idea that personal responsibility and consequences can be negotiated if you have the money. Are any of the parents unduly perturbed by the fact that their kids displayed such terrible behavior?

I used to go to these Bible retreats and camps all the time and this sounds about right. I will say that summer Bible camps for teenagers are the most sexual places on the face of the Earth.

Yea, no shit! It’s a private school so I am assuming at the beginning of the year, EVERY YEAR you and your shitty kid have to sign a contract saying that you are a representative of that school and if your child violates a code of conduct they can be expelled.

In September, 32 girls in Chicago went on a religious retreat together. By November, their text message chain was riddled with racial slurs that got five of them suspended or expelled from their high school

What I think of is Gone Girl. In one scene Ben Affleck’s character is supposed to wear a Yankees cap. Affleck doesn’t like the Yankees. He refused. Production shut down for four days while the director got on the phone with Affleck’s lawyers and agents and whatnot trying to get an actor to wear a hat. And that…

This is disgusting. I’m so sorry Schneider never got any kind of justice — or even got to see that she wasn’t alone, that people were horrified on her behalf — before she died.

Ha! That’s what Laurence Olivier suggested to Dustin Hoffman,” My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?”.

There is a strange obsession from some film directors to get “real” emotions from their actors on set. Ridley Scott did it with the chestburster scene in Alien, Kubrick with Shelley Duvall on the set of The Shining, and clearly Bertolucci did it with this film. Now those first two examples are far less egregious than…

That’s the part that enrages and baffles me the most (aside from everything else, I honestly can’t decide). You literally hire actors to pretend to feel emotion. There is no reason to force them to actually feel it. There is no fucking reason to make a woman really feel like she’s going to get raped. Talk to her like…

How much more authentic John Snow getting stabbed would have been if he had really been stabbed!

If she objects in the moment, she’s called unprofessional and is still pressured into doing it.

Outstanding idea!

Sincerely,
Roman Polanski

I didn’t want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage. I wanted Maria to feel, not to act, the rage and humiliation.

I feel the same way, now that the asshole director finally admits what she has been saying all along, we finally believe her? Jesus. I mean, I’m not surprised, but still.

It’s strange to me that this is news now. I mean I’m glad it’s being talked about. But she said this FOREVER. Now people believe it because they heard men verify it?