I do appreciate that you are trying to navigate this rather complex maze. Back to your original question, no, you are not expected to remain silent from now onward... In the case of Mr. Freeman’s character in the movie, he realizes very quickly that he is neither the expert or as a CIA agent, someone with the moral…

This is complicated because it embodies both an intellectual and an emotional component. For you, there is the intellectual component that you extended a friendly gesture and opinion and the emotional component that you meant well. For her, there is the intellectual component that there is a stranger who has…

Understood but it is worth keeping in mind for the woman (girl if she was under 16?), she has legitimate reasons for skepticism and people tend to expect an unearned dropping of defenses. For all of us, the rules have changed.

Mmm... may I suggest that you rethink how you are perceived; instead of “I’m rather progressive’, you change it to “I think I’m rather progressive but someone else didn’t find me so... so that you can figure out why someone would rather not engage with you? There is a saying in film: “Show, not say” or the motto of a…

I think that it is time to stop thinking that it is a null sum that either you shut up forever or everyone else must shut up forever. As long as you say something smart or human, talk on but shut it if you can only succeed if someone else fails.

You mean “Emma Stone”...

The people who would be upset over LGBTQ representation probably wouldn’t be thrilled with a movie with loads of black people either.

Seriouseats.com discussed this... the slow cooker actually has two settings... the higher one matches a conventional slow cooker while the lower default setting seems to end up with undercooked food.

The first.... and very racist at that.

Remember, that was either the period when she was either was trying to conceive or pregnant with twins so it is a no brainer to not add a small role in a movie...

Ok?

By a “few of us”, I meant the other person who commented, “Cerric M”, and the people who “liked” our comments...

I begin by saying I did not mean to be sarcastic.... we should a few of the claims about Mr. Weinstein is that he did do penetrative rape and all the claims are about coercive sexual violence. A few of us thought you were being sarcastic with the “actual” term though I do appreciate that you weren’t making…

Thank you for saving me the time to type that.... I didn’t mean to slow down the discussion but people will read that the statement means “not actual rape”...

let me fix this for you: “three women are accusing Weinstein of penetrative rape.”...

The New York times is having none of this so there are more than a few of those plot points in their review....

My niece recently had a school assignment to create a family tree. My sister asked me to help her and I had the sad task to explain that, for most black people, slaves were neither legally allowed to be taught to read or write or allowed to be legally wed until after the Civil War so there are no records from family…

It is one of those life conveniences... I use IFFT and my lights in certain rooms go on when it gets dark, shifts color in the evening to help my sleep, has various modes for watching a movie, flashes when I use a timer, and I have a HueGo which lasted through a power failure..

It is one of those life conveniences... I use IFFT and my lights in certain rooms go on when it gets dark, shifts…

For me, getting her autograph was an iconic moment in my youth... It was one of the closest times that I have been to a movie star and she was so charming, intelligent and pretty, that it marked me...

I should mention if you are curious, start with Maxwell’s cover of “This Woman’s Work”, the Herbie Hancock cover with John Legend and Pink of “Don’t Give Up”, Natalie Cole’s cover of “The Man with the Child in His Eyes”, then try the two Prince/Kate Bush duets (I’m only a fan of one of them). There are some secondary…