Actually, one form of sexual harassment is Quid Pro Quo sexual harassment; which is trading sexual favors for some benefit, like a role in a movie. It is understood that, had the person not complied, she would be retaliated against in not getting the job. You are missing the context of this situation; which is that it…

I’m not having a go at you, but I’ve seen this repeated a few times - that the actresses essentially chose to sleep with Weisntein in order to get roles. But really, they slept with (or did whatever with) Weinstein because if they didn’t, they would not only not get that particular role, but they might never get…

Is there somewhere we can read these testimony transcripts in full? I’d like to print one out and mail one to Larry Nassar every goddamn day for the rest of his miserable shitstain of a life.

“Wait, we can swear?” - the previous 157 victims

Now I want the medical droids to be redubbed by Zoidberg!

Apparently the behind-the-scenes explanation was that the medical droids weren’t familiar with human physiology enough to realize that her windpipe was crushed and she couldn’t breathe. Yes, really.

The new movies acknowledge the prequels. Kylo Ren mentions a clone army in the first one and Luke briefly recounts the rise of Darth Sidious in the new one. There’s not a lot of reason to dwell on those events 50something years later, honestly.

“She died of broken heart. No, wait. Broken cervical vertebrae. Me always get those two confused!”

Me agree completely that Padme is underappreciated character. For starters, her story only part of Phantom Menace that actually work (and me agree her stiff delivery is acting choice — we see her soften when she pretending to be servant). But me honestly not know how shoehorning her into new series would possibly…

I always took that line about “dying of a broken heart” as just sugar coating the fact that her husband force choke slammed her against a bulk head(if I recall).  

I wonder if the ‘back in the good old days” syndrome is part of this. When Germaine Greer blasted onto the scene women still had to wear a dress to work. So much has happened in the last 50 years - maybe its hard for some of them to catch up. I know I am struggling and tend to revert to “when I was your age I walked…

Props to Greer for her excellent early work.

Not that I agree with any of it, but this is the reasoning: You start with every word of the Bible being literally true. That means the creation myth in Genesis is literal history, which means evolution is false. Accepting evolution debases humanity by making us no different than animals. Animals have no morals and…

I did too! I held my middle finger up out the window and sang “Fuck youuuu, fuck you dumb as pieces of shiiiiiit! Yeahhh fuck you alllll!” Some of them returned the gesture! Humph! Not very Christian if you ask me!!

It doesn’t, per se. But hating abortion and homosexuality are two of the “big four” tenets of conservative Christianity orthodoxy, the other two being creationism and biblical literalism. They’re all viewed as interrelated and indispensable, and no deviation is permitted.

I wish we could charge our local anti-choicers/anti-gay zealots with something, even something as trivial as “being a public nuisance.” As it is, courts have pretty much interpreted the right to freedom of speech as “the right to harass and intimidate as long as it stops short of actual battery.”

That was a compelling piece, but sadly for me every time some poor soul gets saved Satan whispers in my ear that I must double down yet again on my sinning in order to restore the balance between good and evil. It’s fucking exhausting.

Ugh this hits way too close to home. Being constantly told in childhood that you’ll go to hell and never see your family again after you die if you do anything on an arbitrary “bad list” can fuck you up so much. I’m 30 and still dealing with it.

No man is that fucking stupid to believe that the only safe way to interact with women now is to not interact with women now.

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