Right, exactly! And so I don’t blame the kid, but rather the parent. I don’t need a fake cheerful background commentary on how the T. rex is “a good guy now! Yay! He saved the people, see?” when I’ve paid for an IMAX ticket. Again, I do empathize, as my sister’s had to leave theatres before because Incredibles 2 and…

As someone who gets really upset when people talk during a movie, even I think it’s unreasonable to get upset at kids, particularly when it’s a family oriented movie. Hell, a little boy behind me at Cars 3 made it much more exciting because he was so invested in it and shouted things like, “Go, Lightning! Go go go…

Pete’s Dragon was a minor masterpiece that sadly underperformed, especially compared to most of the others, which is really sad. The original was also a treacly mess, and yet whole I don’t see how they could’ve gone anywhere but up, I also wasn't expecting something as beautiful, sweet, and moving as the remake.

Why not then err on the side of caution and compassion and work on solutions to ensure the well-being of both, mentally, medically, physically, and financially? 

I just can’t see it that way. The determination of its morality based on autonomy in terms of its viability to survive outside the womb maybe even isn’t the point, then, so much as it is the implication that determination of worth is based on the capability to biologically survive on one’s own when there have been…

Where, then, do you draw the line at someone or something having autonomy? Honest question: What of infants born without certain bodily functions that necessitate medical intervention post-birth to help them survive? That's not really autonomy, either, is it?

But a lot of people would say the same about the autonomy of the baby, too. It’s definitely unfortunate that unborn babies are dependent upon a woman’s body, and I understand that you see it as a matter of taking away her right to what happens to her body, but what about the baby’s? It didn’t choose this, either, and…

I feel like I’m wading into dangerous waters here, and I’m going to admit that I may very well bail on the conversation not because it’s hard to have or that someone might piss me off, but because I’ve been having fun anxiety issues for the better part of a week and might just regret debating in the first place,…

Thanks. Online interaction of this sort is really nothing that I can’t handle, though. I just hope they don't treat people in person the same way.

Absolutely. Thank you, and you, too.

What bullshit logic. I was gay before I was molested and knew I liked boys from as early as kindergarten. The molestation reinforced my fears, yes - I thought I deserved it and had attracted the predator by the nature of my orientation, but it didn’t fucking foment in me any affection towards the abuser nor other men…

Honestly, my mom is and can be a wonderful, giving person, and it’s way more complicated than that. She endured much under my dad and worked hard to ensure that my sister and I didn’t get it from him nearly as much as she did. That she’s wrongheaded about these things is a serious and constant source of frustration…

Geez, that doesn’t even begin to make a stupid kind of sense. I’m sorry you had to deal with that.

Happens all the time. I was molested. So was my mom when she was a kid. It’s apparently different for me, though, because I’m a male who turned out to be gay and had an abusive father, and she didn’t. Clearly it’s awful that a man chose to do that, but it’s not so traumatic because clearly I wanted the male attention…

See, those are things I liked.

Huh, I rather loved Love, Simon. Yeah, it was pretty fucking basic and treacly, but I was still pretty moved by it. I saw a lot of myself in Simon, though, and could’ve really used a film like that in my own high school years to help me realize that I can still be myself and still embrace my own identity. I always…

I think there’s plenty of quality stuff on YouTube - I mostly watch it for cooking (SortedFood, Bon Appetit, Maangchi), stuff on movies (Movies with Mikey, Red Letter Media - mostly their Best of the Worst), culture (Lindsay Ellis, Contrapoints), and video games (not Let’s Play stuff, but channels like Video Game…

When she comes home and discovers... ?

Harder to pick pocket, too, since most close up in some way

Yep. Still a good cover: