So I did a Google image search for Falling Down, because of the short sleeve button down and tie combo on a movie poster about a suburban white dude getting fed up and turning violent (or whatever— I didn’t watch the trailer) was an obvious connection. And I found this Newsweek cover from 1993, which felt relevant and…
Wow, whoda thunk that one of your most controversial statements would be calling Matt Damon boring white bread?
And the motivations are usually a boss who doesn’t appreciate his hard work or takes credit for it, a world that doesn’t move aside when he walks through, etc... not, like, racism or sexism or something like that.
He explicitly said that what she was wearing would have lead to someone grab her there (aka sexually assaulting her) when he was young and then did it. I am sure he didn’t talk about children but about teenage girls or adult women getting assaulted for daring to wear something revealing. Yes, old people think lot of…
This is just another one of those movies where repressed white men get to vicariously live out their violent murderous fantasies since the hero is provided justification. Kind of like “The Patriot”, except without the fake historical backstory & discounting the fact Mel Gibson always at least looked like a complete…
Oscar Isaac though. How does he make that stupid mustache look so good? God damn. I will watch this raging dumpster fire only for him
That’s bullshit. Men in their 70s and above are not so age blind they see women in their 30s as children. Men that age still marry trophy wives who are under 45 and watch porn featuring women in their late teens and 20s. This isn’t “our baggage,” you’re making excuses for creepers. Plenty of elderly adults know how…
My mother doesn’t touch any of her great grandchildren unless they approach her first. She says “what little kid wants to be touched by some really old lady they don’t know very well” And she is 100% better looking and better groomed than any other elderly lady I know. And she is right. And I will remember that.
God, all the women in my family still cringe about Great Uncle Harold - a minister no less - who had horrible dentures and INSISTED on kissing every female relative somewhere near the lip area as a greeting. It was sickening then and we all agree that the memory of it is still sickening. And nobody said anything to…
I made it perfectly clear to my family that no one hugs or kisses (or touches) my kids without their permission. My kids have to say hello or goodbye and I encourage handshakes or highfives,but they are never obligated to touch or be touched.
“Well, maybe I will never kiss my granddaughter again, how do you like that?!”
The fact that you’re “flummoxed” that some of us are (rightly) concerned that you are conflating sexualization with infantilization is weirding me out.
Lol yeah I’ll bet he’d be devastated...for being called the eff put on being gross.
Slapping asses, grabbing at stomachs bc that’s what he did back in his day? That’s not babysitting. That’s not a pat on the head. At all. It’s also not how anyone should treat a child
Well just remember...
My SIL publicly yelled at my FIL to stop demanding hugs and kisses from her daughter and FIL nearly collapsed in shock. (He doesn’t touch my kid that way because my kid is a boy and male bodies are respected but female bodies are public property.)
FIL just sputtered, “oh? OH? THAT’S BAD? Well, maybe I will never kiss…
It’s the same as any other sexual harassment or sexual assault. The “sexual” part is just a way to get to the harassment or assault part quicker. It’s just the tool used to build the house.
It is so, so hard to have a family member that does this.... thing. Its hard to name it. You don’t think its sexual and making a big deal out of it makes other people realize that its a big deal TO YOU. You wanna just laugh it all off and be cool and you’re stuck in this no man’s land between trying to be a strong…
Just want to second that that persons grandpa is a creep and you should literally scream and yell at him and possibly punch him if he tries anything again or never see him again. It’s only a matter of time he get’s creepy with your children and why do you want to teach your children it’s ok for an older man to have…
Well la di dah, LW 3, so fancy with your real life friends. WELL, SOME OF US HAVE TO COMMENT ON THE INTERNET FOR HUMAN INTERACTION, OK????
