I also seem to have a higher tolerance for the Klingon scenes than most, probably because I kinda like L’rell. She seems fairly pragmatic and cunning, yet she’s gone all in for the lost cause - probably because she’s got it bad for Voq (who could not possibly fathom why a sensible Klingon like her would join him in…

I also watch this with my mom, who has saved me many a trip to wikipedia, because she’s a history buff with a special fascniation with British Royals and gets all the references. I think I could get her on board with the high tea, but she’ll balk at the fancy hats.

Wow, I remember reading that one in college and even writing an embarrasingly respectful review for the student paper, because then I still thought you had to give that kind of thing the benefit of the doubt.

Binged it last night. The dick jokes might get old (although, surprisingly, they didn’t for me, and I’m not usually a fan of the genre), but that still leaves a quite cleverly constructed mystery that even develops a fair bit of pathos towards the end. Unusually plausible teen characters, too.

It just think it’s impossible to say how many people would really prefer this particular trade-off if they felt “being judged on merit alone” was a realistic alternative. Do you find it hard to see where an actress in Hollywood might get the idea that it isn’t?

*way more likely

But it might have been way less likely than you seem to think.

“Willingly” is a tricky issue, when the alternative may well be “never work in this town again”. Could I imagine that some people then decided to make lemonade out of lemons and at least tried to get the highest price for their hide? Probably, but I still…

Sounds to me like projection.

I also assume that in many cases “actresses I slept with” should be read as “actresses I also sexually assaulted”. There are a million reasons why the women in question wouldn’t want to comment about that.

The rape culture remark is just pointing out that this particular flaw of yours is not especially unique to you, but rather a systemic issue. You recognize it’s a flaw, we recognize it’s a flaw, I don’t understand what there’s to argue about.

I think it’s a good start that you admit the questionability of that…

My impression too. I think he wasn’t entirely insincere but probably not as sincere as he sounded the second time.

That’s rather unfair to the Count of Monte Christo. He always included a certain amount of dramatic irony and poetic justice in his revenge schemes, using people’s own flaws against them. He makes sure to hoist them on their own petards.

Hard to see it as far-fetched until someone else offers a more plausible hypothesis. Can you?

She explicitely states that the upside of not being a ten is not getting invited to hotel rooms. She credits her lack of experience with sexual assault to “being a proud feminst, refusing to diet, not having plastic surgery, etc”, strongly implying that the risk of sexual assault can be at least minimized if you…

Yeah, that’s my impression as well. Some type of “offense is the best defense”-strategy, like “Would I dare do this, if I had anything to fear from the rumours?”. And the answer is, yes, of course you would; I’ve always assumed that at last half of the appeal of this kind of shit is the thrill of getting away with it.

You’re the best judge of your situation, and sometimes doing nothing really is the best course of action. Maybe document anyway, even if you never plan to use any of it. He might start doing this to someone else, who might be less able to shrug it off.

Amen! Algebra was always my favourite too, and I can’t do any mental arithmetic for shit. No head for numbers whatsoever. To the point that I almost wondered whether I might have the mildest possible form of dyscalcula because I took me forever to learn how to read analogue clocks, I can’t judge distances, have little…

Since one of his shitweasel statements was “Nobody tells me what to do”, I’m assuming that someone did, indeed, tell him what to do. It just makes him defiant. Reactance is a hell of a drug.

Do you trust someone else at your job enough to talk about this? Someone who will stay silent about it, if that’s what you want, but who will back you up if that becomes neccessary? I hope there’s someone to support you!

Thanks for sharing that story. It’s so important that people talk about these things.