Please tell me you aren’t Jason Segel ;-) I get it, you really liked the film. But again in my bleak shadow world version, the vampire puppet musical fails and Mila Kunis’ character wisely takes another gig at another hotel so she can get on with her job and life in peace.....

For women they often seem predicated on the idea that a single woman is somehow incomplete or unfulfilled in a way I find creepy and/or uncomfortable. Also marriage never solved anybody’s deep-seated personal problems.......

Again not to sound like a raging cynic but personally for me, it just feels like male wish fulfillment.

Mila Kunis worked in the hotel. Which means she probably (in real life) would have had some barriers up when dealing with a lonely, heartbroken man. But no, in the film, she’s there to give him a sweet suite and mend his broken heart of course :-)

Money opens Dawes, if you know what I mean (and I don’t, that meme was before my time).

I know plenty of non-conventionally physically attractive people who just go to work and raise their kids and stuff. They don’t tend to spend much time plastering themselves all over social media though; maybe that’s the problem.

I like Forgetting Sarah Marshall anyway but I still wish the film had been less one sided. Even as it is you can see why Jason Segel’s character might be tricky long-term. In any relationship where someone is suffering a bit, there comes a point when help and support can turn into enabling someone to carry on going…

To make it more realistic is make the man in question more than usually intelligent, more than usually sensitive or more than usually funny. I think for some people meeting someone who possesses a certain quality you really like in abundance is very, very powerful.

I was already well aware......

Because I’m incredibly used to having these arguments online with people who are disinterested in what happens to women and what a sad minority of men get away with.

What happens when someone gently calls him out? Because I take that as the measure of how far gone someone is.

Every time there was another loss for internet privacy and civil liberties in general (cough Patriot Act & RIPA in the UK) and someone said “if you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear”, I thought of Anne Frank.

I’m not sure what point you are trying to make. I’ll do you the courtesy of assuming you realise that it isn’t okay to hold women hostage, rape them and attempt to murder them and then call it a BDSM relationship.

I was referring to the system of plea bargaining not trials. Surely the main point of having prisons is to remove people at high risk of reoffending from the wider community until they have served an appropriate sentence and there is some evidence they will not reoffend?

Even on those terms BDSM is roleplay with sex. It isn’t a legal defence anywhere civilised to pretend keeping someone hostage for extended amounts of time is something they cosnented to. In actual BDSM, the person says stop and it stops.

Then the system needs looking at doesn’t it? There will be a next victim with this person, it’s pretty crystal clear.

Yep that’s the problem, isn’t it, anger is reaching a tipping point. My parents subscribe to The London Times and the only time most of the commenters believe a rape victim is when the perp is and I quote “foreign”.

“You can’t have a peaceful society without justice; and you can’t have justice unless it’s for all.”

What would make you personally care about the fact so many Americans are treated as second class citizens? I’m genuinely interested in your response to this by the way.

Tell it to his next victim. Oh wait, don’t as it will ring incredibly hollow.