Even if he did know her he has every right to refuse.

I don’t support Jerry qua Jerry, I support people not being shamed into giving hugs when they don’t want too. And you say Jerry is a jerk and you like Kesha, well, based on her behavior Kesha is a jerk as well.

What about someone who is born male, identifies as a man but has low testosterone. Should they be allowed to compete with women?

Being a male is cheating?

Then why have a divide between Men and Women or Boys and Girls? Let all individuals compete equally in the same competitions.

They target girls because the latter on average wear less. If boys were walking in leggings with bulges for all to see they’d probably get scolded too.

Maybe if we had our students dress more professionally, they will act more professionally and take school a bit more seriously. School is serious business, so there is nothing wrong with demanding that the students present themselves in a serious manner. I’m of the mind that we let far too much fly in the school…

As a dude, can I refuse a handshake?

All she had to do was walk once he stepped back. And maybe he doesn’t mind hugging but doesn’t want to hug her. We can’t make such distinctions?

He wasn’t a “dick” at all. (And why use “dick” here to mean something negative?) He politely declined, she persisted. What do you do?

You like a person who keeps trying to hug someone who said “no thanks”?

He said no thanks, how could he be more polite?

He was the ass for refusing a hug? Let the roles reverse, is she an ass?

He was fine. How else to you respond when you don’t want a hug?

Why? He doesn’t owe her anything.

That scene is supposed to serve to differentiate the “bad” appropriators(Blues Hammer) vs. the “good” and “authentic” appropriators. But what the film doesn’t get is that they are both appropriators, both using anthers culture to shore up their own claims to authentic identity.

So white privilege is a big part of the film so it’s okay to just ignore it?

We don’t really know what the intentions of the director and writer were, all we can do is analyze what we are given and racial/cultural sensitivity is a large theme in this film.

Who would ever be able to get away with a men only screening? It wouldn’t be possible. They’d be protested, boycotted and vilified, and rightly so.

But this ISN’t equality. It’s outright gender discrimination. Who does this benefit?