I blame his editors for that scene making it to print. Of course the coke told him it was a good idea. That’s what coke tells you. Others should’ve known better, lol.

My school library was pretty short on scifi, but they had virtually everything Piers Anthony had ever written as of the early 90's so I read it all. I was at a bookstore a couple years back that had a huge box of Xanth novels for 75 cents each, so I grabbed an armful for nostalgia’s sake. Skeevy skeevy skeevy. Way…

Same - I read all the Xanth books as a kid and loved them, and then I re-read a bunch of them (plus the Incarnations of Immortality and the Apprentice Adept ones) as an adult and I was suuuuuuuper grossed out by his depictions of literally anything related to gender and sex, and now I’m concerned about how much that…

“You know what this article about a woman and her accomplishment needs more of? INFORMATION ABOUT MY BONER/LACK THEREOF!”

I read all those Xanth books! No wonder I had so much internalized misogyny as an adolescent. Do you remember the woman whose personality and appearance fluctuated monthly? She was an ugly, but brilliant harpy who was kept in a pit, then changed to an average looking woman of average intelligence, and then changed to…

See, as much as I don’t like the scene and as much as I don’t think it works, it does not at all come off as a masturbatory fantasy for King or anyone else. I honestly don’t think he got his jollies from writing the scene. And the reader is clearly not supposed to be aroused by it. Whatever he was going for didn’t…

I agree with everything you say there. However, a theoretical member of an already progressive church can do all that and still have zero impact on what the Family Research Council does.

Excellent counter argument...

Seems to me like if you are talking about firing the pastor because of “unwanted media attention” for him doing and saying something undeniably positive, the issue is not about the attention, it’s about the content of his actions and words, which you don’t see as positive at all.

Fun story: So, I’m a Methodist. The congregation I currently call home is very pro civil rights, pro lgbt, the whole gamut. And very very vocal about it, too.

He said what I have been thinking. It’s not necessarily the Confederate statues that bother me, it’s that they have been elevated to idolatry. I remember back when Bin Laden was killed, they did not return his body to his family because they did not want his grave to become a shrine.

Seems perfectly reasonable in Trump’s America that “good” Christians get mad at at another Christian for actually being a Good Christian.

I don’t think the issue is so much what he said, but rather that he gained so much publicity in doing so. A secretive cult like Christianity hates the spotlight and that’s why most of us have never heard of it.

I don’t think Beyonce is an intersectionalist in the slightest. This leads into a larger critique of pop feminism (I really don’t like singling out Beyonce even if it happens a lot) but I’ve gotta get to work!

Ahhh of course. Because if there were no blood test, there would be no way of proving him innocent of driving while intoxicated. That’s how the legal system works, right? Guilty until innocent? These heroes just needed to make sure he wasn’t going to be found guilty of DWI because there was no blood sample proving his…

So I read this article the other day, “Blank Space: Taylor Will Not - And Should Not - Solve Your Donald Trump Anxiety,” and it made some interesting points about this whole Taylor Swift thing, particularly that this kind of “celebrity politics” is what helped create Trump, by giving credibility to celebrities just…

I’m really glad he’s going to rot in jail for a while

What we’re seeing here is essentially the law enforcement version of “affluenza”. Now that we have 2 derelict leaders (Trump/Sessions) providing agencies across the land with unparalleled senses of entitlement and shown little real consequence for bad actors, it’s inevitable that more and more LEOs will embrace their…

Jesus - when she sobs ‘why is he so angry’ is heartbreaking. His hands are actually on her and no one around her is able to stop him. She’s totally vulnerable, he’s unstable and everyone is helpless to prevent him from forcing her into his car. How absolutely terrifying.

My sister is a nurse practitioner. Her job is very difficult, stressful and at the same time she finds it rewarding because she saves children’s lives every day. I cannot express how angry this story makes me and I only wish his firing is the least of the repercussions he will face.