I made a completely factual statement about Fry's personal background. You tittered and dodged around it. I'm curious as to why my acknowledgement of Stephen Fry having no personal experience with offense in any tangible form is foolish?

Ah yes, fighting the truth is hard - especially when it makes you uncomfortable or inconveniences you. I don't blame you for running.

Ah yes, that grand old quote from Stephen Fry... an upper-class able-bodied white man. He's got a lot he's dealt with in regards to people offending the groups he belongs to, doesn't he? (Sarcasm. Dripping with it.)

Proof of the first time a PHRASE was said? This is a ridiculous, nebulous task. How about not insisting that all these people who are offended are making things up? No, too hard? Okay, then let's go to middle school English course and look at context clues.

Honestly, "people are just offended because they WANT to be offended!" isn't much of a step up from "I'm going to make an article cuz I was offended!" - it's a pretty tired old song and dance that unaffected people trot out whenever a minority gets upset by something a member of that unaffected group does, and let's…

It's not what you thought of because rape largely isn't a personal concern for you. The people who are upset didn't "decide" to be upset. They just know where that phrase comes from and don't like hearing it in a conference for an industry already considered hostile toward women.

Your ignorance of the phrase's origin combined with your use of it in more innocent context does not change its origin.

I'm pretty sure that you're right in that they don't, though it's not much of a stretch to imagine that they most likely have resources for women who are interested in having testing done.

Sorry, I should have been clearer right off the bat - I think that using her op-ed as a talking point and launching pad of criticism of the US healthcare system is warranted; I can see how you read it the way you did. It's true I personally find her lack of inclusion of support for impoverished women disappointing but…

Where in the world did I advocate "shitting all over her"?

Haha, no, that's pretty silly. I mean I feel like she should have been able to at least take a moment to discuss the problems with the health care currently provided and to mention some organizations dedicated to women's health that are able to assist poorer women. The shout-out to how expensive the procedure was…

She did indeed give it a cursory mention, but without a solution brought up alongside that mention, it just seems like an "oh yeah, I KNOW it's hard for you ladies - but hang in there! yeah! friendly fist pump!" It's a token platitude.

Perhaps I'm overly cynical, but I didn't see what I expected when clicking that link. I was ready to be blasted by dudebro morons bemoaning the loss of a pair of the world's most famous boobies - instead, I was (pleasantly?) greeted with legitimate criticism of Jolie's emotional op-ed. I agree that Jolie made a hard…

But... the child was discovered because they acted on instinct when they noticed the little girl wasn't appropriately dressed for the weather. There are some people who might dismiss that, so I dunno.

I'd like this story more if it weren't tagged under "Sex". This isn't about sex, it's about justice.

Good luck on your no soda endeavor! I gave it up years ago and whenever I have the occasional, once-every-few-months cup it tastes like I'm drinking bubbly sugar slurry. You don't realize how acclimated you are to that taste until it smacks you in the tastebuds after going without it for a while.

Wow you spent this entire post rambling about how great and special you are! Congrats, I guess. I'm too busy being legitimately bothered by the fact that they took a role originally written for a non-white actor and forked it over to Benedict Cumberbatch instead of, you know, one of the many qualified and talented…