Sadly, "she didn't say no emphatically enough, I thought she meant yes," has been successfully used as a rape defense in many a trial. Which makes this whole fucking discussion so infuriating to me. I can just imagine a rapist/MRA/PUA reading this and nodding in agreement. "See! I told you! They all want it, I can…

Again, how can I tell? Give me some clues to for when to take the words "The answer is NO" to mean "Yes, please keep badgering me to spend the night with you." I mean, I'm sure Cosby could tell the subtext between all the women refusing him, but I usually take point-blank "no's" at face value. Silly me.

Are you seriously comparing offering food a second time to badgering a woman about sex?

There's a level of assumptions that are proper in a long-term relationship — NOT assuming that you can just fuck someone anytime without asking, but being more coy (or even playing with!) about consent, power, etc. This is not appropriate in a first-time hookup when alcohol is involved.

I can see where you're coming from, but the problem to me is that, even if assuming "they're just excuses, she really wants it" is true in this instance, it doesn't make the guy's actions okay. Because it might not be the truth for the next woman. And even if they are all other people's reasons, it doesn't make it…

Look, for me, it's not that hard. Maybe the woman in the song was jonesing so hard her fucking panties were slipping off, but it doesn't make the man's actions any less inappropriate. This time, taking "no" as a coy "yes," was maybe the right answer. Next time, it fucking won't be.

Well, this year would be very helpful, but we can start whenever your comfortable. In the clip above, the woman rebuffs his kiss, rises, walks toward the door without looking at him and says "The answer is NO." The man moves in front of her to physically stop her from leaving. Maybe we can identify the exact decade…

Oh, the movie that came out like 5 years after the song was written?

Cool, maybe you can help me out? If a woman tells me "The answer is NO," how can I tell if she really doesn't mean it?

"The answer is NO" means the same thing now as it did in the 30s.

I disagree completely. That's exactly the mindset pick-up artists use. That's literally in their manifestos. "She's just saying no because it's expected of her, if she really didn't want you she would scream 'NO YOU'RE CREEPY GO AWAY I DON'T LIKE YOU,' because it's not like that ever ends badly for women in private…

I very much disagree with that justification — the context doesn't make it any less uncomfortable. Yeah, sure, the "what's in this drink" line is just sort of a silly thing that sounds way more awful to modern ears, similar to men saying they feel 'gay' or whatever.

Maybe? I don't think lying makes you a psychopath, necessarily.

Loads of circumstantial evidence. The fact that Jay just counted on the fact that literally no one had seen Adnan (all it would have taken for Jay to be immediately convicted of the crime was for one person to say "Oh yeah, Adnan was with me the whole time, what are you talking about?") The cell phone at Leakin. Hell,…

Jay would have to be so absurdly lucky to have pulled this off without Adnan's help that it's barely worth considering.

I'm not joking, and why would GamerGaters read Kotaku?

Oh, that's right. They archive.today it so they can read it and still pretend like they're boycotting.

Kinda funny you're down on 8 players, since Polygon said it was the highlight of the whole game. Different strokes!

Yep, men are literally evil. lolz

"Gamers would never support Jack Thompson!"

First off, Jack Thompson was disbarred specifically because of legal shenanigans, including sending harassing letters and practicing law outside his approved jurisdiction.