Another commenter replied to you FOUR HOURS AGO: “I think they are saying that they agree with you morally but that the written word of the law does not and therefore the strict definition of ‘sexual assault’ can’t be carried.

You know who they should do one of these for? You guessed it. Perry Fucking Mason. I want to know what he did BEFORE he did interesting things, I want to know all of the UNINTERESTING things he did that led him to the items of interest in his life. Jim Jarmusch said when a character gets into a taxi and then they cut…

There’s something wrong in your brain. My second response to you was explaining exactly what I have repeated here over and over and over again, not backtracking on anything. Here is what I said initially: “She says ‘knowing it was my first time and I was sobbing in pain and I didn’t want to do it’—that is not that…

dude I forgot Silent Hill...that movie is pretty extreme, the part where they burn the lady from The Majestic alive was dope. The sequel was really terrible (Carrie Anne Moss dabbed her tears with her paycheck). I forgot the swords thing in Dawn Treader...was that from another novel or did they just throw it in? I…

oh boy a prequel, an origin story, those are the best

How am I backtracking.

I most definitely was.  Ummmm.  Gotta go! (falls down stairs, flips over bannister, lands in dumpster climbs out of dumpster falls down open manhole is eaten by IT and shat out into the East River)  I’m alright!

It’s gross and creepy to look at an accusation of rape by looking at how the law defines whether somebody was raped or not?

I know, I know, but I don’t want to fight with anybody I might like right now and I felt like arguing.  If you look below, because I legally defined rape and then said how I personally define it (far more broadly) he claimed that I “backtracked.”  (wipes forehead) ooo-weeeee!

You imbecile, I didn’t backtrack, I distinguished between my personal beliefs and the legal definition.  Wow.

That’s not the New York legal definition of consent. Even so, sobbing is not an unequivocal expression of the withdrawal of consent, not without any additional communication by word or action that the other person should cease and desist.  The accusation might, without more, violate an affirmative consent requirement…

I latched onto it because those definitions are REALLY important given they are the definitions on whether a rapist or abuser is going to go to jail or not.  if you read downthread with that recognitions doofus, you’ll see that my personal definition of what is “rape” is far more expansive (for example, they could…

Ummm I think you forgot the part where you showed that you don’t know what “rape” is legally, instead you said “Anyway...”

I think the ironic thing is that, if you read the second paragraph up there, I’m totally fine with blood, I hope her friends beat him within an inch of his life, but based solely on the accusations he isn’t legally guilty of anything this article is saying he is and people’s pride in their ignorance over anything…

You tried to push back on one factual assertion that I made and you were wrong.  You haven’t disputed anything else that I said about how the law views these accusations.  You lost the argument.

You mean did he say “I created the Alan Alda character to give power to a false narrative that any then-currently elected conservative was acting out of coherent deeply felt beliefs unmotivated by racism or corporate bribery”?  Funny, I don’t remember him saying that.  That must not have been what happened then.

Those things you are talking about aren’t misgivings and they aren’t opinions (the part about how he should being tar and feathered and (insert other thing here) is an opinion) they’re the legal standard.  The power dynamic does not create legal rape, I was clear that I was talking about legal rape.  I didn’t assume…

are you admitting to trolling?  because that is generally where people go to get their fulfillment when they can’t make any good arguments and it’s right in your wheelhouse.

it would really be a shame if they didn’t involve Phil Ochs and Pigasus, also if they didn’t point out that those protests gave us Nixon and 5 more years of Vietnam.  Wtg Abbie.

I criticize it for thinking making Alan Alda’s character nothing like any elected republican was anything but a disservice to the people watching. I’m not looking forward to Sorkin’s “but they mean well at heart” interpretations of the Ws, Trumps, Paul Ryans, McConnells of the world where he in bad faith makes up that…