Honestly, I’m really confused as to why Americans say that pasta is not good for you. In Italy pasta is the main staple of the diet, everybody eats it as a main course every single day, and we are doing pretty well.

If you want to mix it up a little, try having beans & rice, veggie burgers, bean tacos, curry, fritatta, or veggie & tofu stir-fry. Cheap & healthy eats.

In my middle school musical production of Peter Pan the “Indians” became “trolls” wearing neon colors instead because it stops being a racist caricature if they just becomes a raceless mythical species. I think Tiger Lily was played by a Chinese American girl. I kind of dig that idea, to be honest.

Man imagine how many statisticians would cream themselves to be able to poll every person on earth.

Why isn’t Google on this yet?

You’re not ditching capitalism, though, because you are espousing libertarian and objectivist beliefs, which are inherently capitalist.

And you HAVE to be right that pornography/sex work is good for people...this is akin to arguing that Diet Coke is good for people because it doesn’t outright cause them to drop dead on the street. Conversely why is it so important for you to convince, or even slightly persuade, me about the veracity of your position?…

I’m not American ... and in fact live in a nation that is heavily surveilled by the DOJ and its allies so... not convincing. This is a government resource similar to the ones paid for by GWB that dismissed the assertions of scientists who proved the climate change was upon us ...

Pornography, and sex work, whether it involves what we think of as convention abuse and degradation (as if degradation should be conventional in any kind of civilised society) or is any of the ilk you describe, is always about the suspension of the performers’ sexual autonomy.

It takes a very special type of basement-dwelling cretin to insist on continuously moving the goalposts on what constitutes sexual assault. Your posts are frighteningly spot-on.

Of course, the high incidence of sexual assaults perpetrated on traditionally college-aged women, who, by an unbelievable coincidence are the fictive and sometimes real objects of abuse and projections of abuse fantasies in sex work / pornography, have nothing whatsoever to do with the proliferation of violence and…

Agreed. I’m guessing they were trying to hide behind the original novel but even then she seemed like a native to me...

oh also um something something regret sex!

I really feel you re the other grays. It’s infuriating.

What these studies and the statistics they generate should tell you is that if you know any number of women in your life, and care about at least some of them, twenty percent of them have been victims of sexual assault.

I have zero idea what you're going on about.

Dear god the Greys got here fast.

I’ll say it again. If they had cast a black actress as say, Tinkerbell, because she was the ‘best actress’ for the part, watch the Internet explode with anger. It’s all bullshit.

You were rocking ombre (in reverse) SO long before it was cool!