It's almost as if cultures organize around laws and justice systems that are accountable toward voters, and work to perfect those laws over time, for good reasons.

I'm fairly certain that's what it is. Did rantic.com exist before this? Are we sure it wasn't created 48 hours ago by a couple of 4chan users in their parents' basement?

why do I not believe this, either?

oh, really? That's good news. I haven't read in a few years because, even as a cis-, straight guy in a monogamous relationship these days, I just couldn't stand his treatment of bisexuality.

It's a horrendous article written by an overgrown child who is spending his 50's (from the looks of him) talking about "pre-gaming" and worrying about his frat brothers. That's pathetic.

Sadly, it's quite real. Read Dan Savage's advice columns. For all the times that he's seemed very open to people's varying wants and needs, he's frequently advised gay people, 'don't date bisexuals. They will inevitably leave you for someone of the other gender, because it's easier on them.' He considers this…

"i think we identify with the lesbian 'group' or our own mini lesbian society since we don't fit into greater society, and so it feels like a rejection of our group, and a manipulation of our group."

I'm so glad to see this, because my generation (I'm 37) sees teaching consent as such a minefield.

I'm a single dad, trying to raise a teenage girl and a pre-teen boy on my own, reading Jez and similar sites to try to challenge my own cultural conditioning, understand the gender issues they'll each face and prepare them both, as best I can, to change the culture.

And Ethan Hawke is one of the best interview subjects out there. Hell, track down his reddit AMA and read it — he managed to give a few profound answers to questions thrown out by a crowd of silly people trying to one-up one another with in-jokes. Hawke just always seems thoughtful.

Yes, worded correctly, it could be really powerful. I've taken the collective silence as a statement about agency, but maybe I'm reaching to say that. Hopefully, soon enough, they have an arrest to issue statements about.

That would make the issue body shame, and risk saying 'I'm ok with not having any privacy because I'm proud of my body,' which actually just reinforces the body shame issue in the first place, effectively saying that you can look good enough to be shame-proof so looking good is what matters here.

I shouldn't be harsh about it.

I'm going to be the asshole that says it — no, no we can't stop to discuss that, because the issue at hand is statutory rape, and we shouldn't be distracted from it by shiny things.

Seriously? We're going to have to deal with a major hollywood movie that shows a woman in her 40's having an affair with a teenage boy, then makes that out to be HIM abusing HER in some way?

maybe I'm naive, but I think the housecleaning is coming eventually.

Assuming you're a straight guy (as I am) — have you honestly never been attracted to a woman because of what she was doing? That's all this was. She was saying his actions were attractive. I don't know about you, but I notice women being awesome sometimes, and find it attractive. It works the same way for people…

I'll give just the one example I can think of —

Exactly. He looks good.

Her name is Camilla? Seriously?