Yeah, it’s that scene (and the scene where Snoke gets unceremoniously killed) just have the “Poochie died on the way to his home planet” vibes. Like that it is kind of funny, yes, but at the same time shows contempt for both the characters and the audience.

It’s always Georgia with these fuckers.

The challenging things really don’t make any sense. Rian is the ultimate “I would rather prove I’m clever than tell a coherent story” writer. (See all his other work). It works for people who like clever things more than they like coherent stories.

Subverting expectations is a pointless and empty exercise if it is not in the service of story, or any larger theme. In fairness to Rian, TLJ is just part of a massive cautionary tale on what happens when you commit to making three movies without any story outline. 

To be absolutely clear: Whether they have the authority or not, they were dead wrong here. And doing evil. We should not tolerant this kind of fascistic shit.

But that’s along the lines of the “first them came for the XXX, but I did not speak up because I wasn’t XXX” death by a thousand cuts route. They WANT you to simply comply.

I don’t think anyone should harm him or encourage others to harm him. I do think it’s okay for women to alert other women when a man who committed a rape while intoxicated is frequenting bars again though. 

The issue with Brock is that he never once even tried to apologize or admit he made a mistake.  He doesn’t think he did anything wrong.   So it makes sense to warn locals because right now the only lesson Brock seemed to learn from this is don’t get caught 

No, you haven’t been on a date for 21 years because you’re a fucking creep with a lot of antagonism towards women, but simply as it’s not the “DudeBro” style creep you think it’s fine to say.

A good man is a gentleman, a man of honor, courage, appropriate amounts of stoicism

I think the way to be a good man is to be a good person. It’s not actually all that challenging, at least conceptually.

I don’t think we’re having different conversations. You said that someone could look to Jordan Peterson if they wanted to learn how to be a good man. I am saying that is wrong, not just that I don’t personally want to look to Jordan Peterson. Jordan Peterson can teach you how to be a pathetic, misogynistic, bigoted…

Jordan Peterson can’t tell you how to be a good man. The Art of Manliness can’t tell you how to be a good man. They’re both just milder shades of the same normative patriarchical bullshit that Tate spews (though AoM is, at least as far as I am aware, much less awful than Peterson - I am happy to be corrected here, I…

I have watched/studied enough Jordan Peterson to know he absolutely does not teach boys to be good men. Other than telling them to get their own affairs in order/clean their room before judging other people’s lives, which can be good advice, but is incredibly vague, he makes boys feel like helpless victims who are…

It doesn’t mean “shameful joy” :) It means “damagejoy”, so being glad at someone or something getting damaged. All good!

But Schadenfreude means ‘shameful joy’. Don’t you remeber that episode of The Simpsons? It’s not Schadenfreude unless deep down you know that it’s kinda fucked up you feel happy at all.

The fact you imply that sexuality is a choice in your first paragraph says all we need to know about you and your beliefs. 

You’d think my uncle was a toddler himself with the way he was screaming about those Potato Head toys and syrup bottles a while back.

By allowing and/or encouraging the removal of a symbol of equality for the downtrodden, it says that the symbol and those associated to it are a nuisance, unwanted, and discardable. And in our current rightwing radicalization of gamers, this is a terrible thing to allow.

It’s funny that the people who call others sensitive snowflakes are the ones getting upset over colored bars on a flag to the extent they have to mod them out.

Real “you calling out my racism makes you the *real* racist” energy.

I mean this isn’t exactly the same as modding out spiders in Skyrim or Darksiders.