You need new friends.

He should try leather pants under those leather pants.

Fuck that noise which is other people telling you what is or is not aesthetically pleasing, smelly, or whatever. You do you! Go sleeveless with nature’s pits, if you want!

Good news! Besides being a colossal help when it comes to time management, spoilers enhance enjoyment. Science!

I am not one for “moody bromantic period romances” in the first place but I admit, sometimes the scenery sucks me in and I watch anyway.

You have to start somewhere. If it were against the law to keep x number of guns & y amount of ammo, and/or fail to register to them, then we would at least have something with which to charge these hypothetical unhinged ultra-conservative rich white men before they act.

Well that fucking sucks.

Reading the Wikipedia entry for this was enough to make me stop watching it. I won’t share spoilers but (unless they make major changes) the series does not end in a feminist-friendly way. :-(

Why can’t Poldark just acquire dadbod like all the other dads.

Good on you! Did anything come out of it?

It’s almost as if the NRA works for gun makers and not gun owners.

JFC. I would’ve reported that to HR as threats/intimidation.

Focussing on mental illness is the conservative way of framing the argument on the outsider status of the shooter, so that we ignore other profiling attributes (white, male, entitled), motives (racism, misogyny, “burn the world” mentality), social ills that might have fed the illness (poverty), but most importantly…

Registries, stronger background checks, and strict limits on guns and ammunition would restrict the amount of damage an unhinged ultra-conservative rich white male could do. If the US had stricter laws against stockpiling, and enforced those laws, then such men would be de facto criminals just for keeping weapons as…

The US can’t address its gun-related violence problems just with stricter gun control, but that doesn’t mean that stricter gun control wouldn’t work to allievate some of the problems. Combined with anti-poverty and anti-bias (both for women and people of color) policies, stricter gun control would make a measurable…

You are correct, gun control advocates were writing to the director, the cast, and the executives at Warner to come out publicly for gun control. It just wasn’t as publicised and nobody answered the call.

(Don’t get me wrong, I am glad she spoke out and I hope her views only become tougher over time. But given the context of the shooting — mass murder motivated by misogyny* — it’s just one more way that we place the burden of fixing our societal problems on women.) [eta: *alliteration not intended, there]

Closure to all the gun show law loopholes, serious buyback program similar to Australia’s, gun safes mandatory, smart chips and trigger locks on guns...

Yes, this was a very guarded, politically neutral call for gun control, without ever using the actual words “gun control”. Background checks and access to mental health care are pretty much the two things Right and Left agree on when it comes to gun control.

I run in these circles, and gun control advocates were indeed pleading with Chris Nolan (and cast members) to talk openly about gun control after the shooting. The difference is that their pleas did not go viral then, and Nolan didn’t answer them. But yes I agree, there is sexism in the way that some have tried to…