This is not some ridiculous position that only trolls would hold to make a point about how terrible feminists are. I hold this position, and you can go look at my comment history - I've been visiting here for years.

"Rape victims are disbelieved and that is WRONG!"

One person showed up and when they were unsure, they contacted the person again via email, which is what you say they should be doing. I agree that the responsible thing would have been to come up with a safe word.

We agree on both points. Neither are relevant to what Pete said. He said that anyone who answers an ad like that should be put on a watchlist. Not even everyone who agrees to do it, just everyone who shows any kind of interest in it.

So you really think irresponsible people should be put on watch lists. Got it.

So, "they're irresponsible" equates to "they hope that this is a person that doesn't consent and deserve to have their DNA in a watch list"?

You think they need to be critiqued and they're doing it wrong, which is reasonable. Pete thinks they clearly wanted the ad to be fake and the person to be actually not consenting so they could get away with rape outside of a fantasy scenario and therefore should be put in a DNA database as a sex offender watch list,…

Saying "they had a rape fantasy and were irresponsible about it", especially considering the one person who actually did go through with going there didn't actually even enter the house because they realized something was up, is far different from "they hope they get to actually rape a person and get away with it".

No, we can't agree on that. Some people have rape fantasies. It's far more likely that rape fantasies are a kink that they can't let out with other people so they turn online to fulfill that fantasy with someone else who's actually consenting.

What do you mean by "an invitation to groupthink"? GT is a public forum and literally anyone can comment, and to get posting privileges you have to post in a particular thread, there are no people being invited to post on there.

You are intentionally not understanding. You say anything clean is "put together", and everyone has to be "put together". I'm saying that many people disagree with you, so your argument of "look put together" is empty words because it means something different to literally every person on the planet - and for the vast…

But what if the person you're sitting next to is one of the many, many, many people who think yoga pants isn't cute? Then you're not dressing to respect them. What if the person you're sitting next to thinks that women in jeans isn't cute, that women should wear dresses? Then you're not respecting them.

Do you regularly fly on commercial airlines in coach for fun?

Considering there's a series of videos of same dog doing things that look so human, yeah, probably trained.

Have you tried hooking up these people you know?

Sometimes I feel like there's a fleet of assholes out there just watching what everyone else orders and immediately judging anyone who doesn't order a salad with a diet drink, smugly telling their friends "that person should indulge, that person thinks it cancels it out, that person is so irrational!"

Where are you getting this "they get free X and Y" from, your Wendy's experience? My friend worked at McDonald's and got free nothing until she became a manager, and then it was one free meal a shift. No free soda. No half price meals. Just because something was true at Wendy's doesn't mean it's true for Taco Bell.

Unless you're using a used penis.

The suburbs of it, yeah! I should probably feel wary when people are like I KNOW THE PLACE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT but I just feel really disproportionately excited. People live near me! How exciting!!!

I'm a big fan of the place called Mexican Restaurant by me. Never been there, but at least they're straightforward.