We know he woke her up. We see him watching videos of her, talking to her sleeping body, etc. Keep in mind there are thousands of people on that ship. He doesn’t go wake up, say, his former best buddy. Or a mechanic. Or something like that. He chooses the sexy girl that he’s got a boner for.

YES. The movie was BULLSHIT. It is also a movie about rape fantasies. The main character LITERALLY obsesses over this woman’s sexy body before waking her up to fuck her. He kidnaps her from her life for that reason, ignoring her own autonomy. I’m not making this up or projecting - THIS IS THE PLOT. Again, I think the…

Nope. The problem isn’t with him waking her up. That could be an interesting story. It’s with everything that happens thereafter. Humans do terrible things, and sometimes we can be sympathetic to their motivations. But this movie did not explore the follow out from that. She was upset for a very short period of time,…

Well not everyone is timely. I didn’t see the movie when it came out, so I’ve never discussed it with anyone. I think this discussion is interesting, and I’m glad to see so many people were creeped out by it for the same reasons I am. (I tend to go through phases when I have a week to do nothing but veg on the…

What hostility? And what are you wishing me luck for? And what is specific? You invited the discussion. You specifically requested it.

Bullshit. In real life, any person in that situation might think to do a similar thing, male or female. Likewise, the awoken person would probably fight with the person who woke them out of sheer rage and resentment. So let’s play that scenario out. A person is lonely. Wakes up another person, which yes, condemns that…

Yes it’s a good point, especially if you zoom out a bit. The problem is complete lack of any class consciousness at all in the United States. This is Pratt’s problem. It’s also the problem of people who love Trump. When they notice the disconnect between their own lived experience and what is presented to them in the…

No, I think Hollywood is probably the worst place to be exposed to anything- it’s an insane and intolerant bubble. And if you are a star, especially if you’ve had sudden fame, you will instantly be disconnected from any reality at all, with much of your personal life and experiences handled by others from inside the…

Yeah, it’s what happens when white men start to realize that there is actually injustice and lack of representation in society. Because they’ve always been thinking about themselves as the default everything, they take this as a slight against THEM which is a shame because the initial revelation could actually be the…

To be fair, he grew up in the rural midwest, the son of a cashier and a carpenter. Considering that Hollywood is in fact full of people from more urban and wealthy backgrounds with loads of nepotism, I think he has a point about how stories of people from different classes are not represented. Even when you get a…

Like, every single movie that Paul Rudd or Marky Mark or Edward Burns or Jason Segel or Steve Carrell or Adam Sandler or Ben Stiller or Ed Helms have ever been in? I’m sure I could go on and on and on, but I’d overdose on the bro fest.

I guess I’m not sure if we are crossposting or what you are talking about, but I’m not running around asking people if they have kids or why. I’ve never done that outside actual friendship. I don’t have kids myself, and when people ask me casually, it’s fine. I don’t mind, and I quickly answer that I never had kids…

I don’t know what your life is like, but I have a few wide social circles, a professional circle, and a couple of circles where I volunteer. Like many Southerners, I also live in a community with a small central downtown where everyone goes to the same grocery store, bar, park, etc. I meet lots of people all the time,…

Well I’m in the South, and nothing like that ever happened to me. It might be because in the South, people do chat more and ask more personal questions, and if you don’t know how to shut that down, you might feel yourself drawn into a conversation you didn’t intend to have?

Yeah and seriously what do you think a second child would feel like if he knew he existed just to make sure the first child isn’t a brat? Bizarre.

Yeah I’m wondering about this a lot from reading here and in the other thread. There are so many women with this experience that I can’t dismiss it, but it’s really never happened to me. I think seeming momish (on a superficial level) might have something to do with it. Also being chatty. I’ve been told I’m very…

Yikes. Yup it’s stories like that which blow my mind. This never happens to me. I think I must be either more bitchy and direct than you or else no one would dream of giving me a baby.

Nope. I’ve lived all over this country and three others and traveled everywhere and I’ve never had this pressure either. I think some of it comes from people’s actual friends and family which was never a case for us. And a lot of the rest of it comes from your response to and perception of being asked if you have kids…

Oh yes, I can see that I sounded snarky when I said that this is the reason I do not want kids. I was not trying to use your experience, and I meant it with more humor than it came off. I was literally thinking about having to argue over macaroni and cheese for dinner and those sorts of minor things which can add up…

Thanks for this and your other response. Yes, I agree with what you are saying here, and I just finished reading the other articles & studies you linked to. I’m not sure how to say everything I want to say because it’s a huge jumble of newness, but I do want to say how much I appreciate you taking the time to explain…