Other Forums Containment Thread

[Nintex]

The keffals situation has escalated to a point where they/them is about to have the Kiwifarms nuked and they are freaking out 

https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1562587343592488960

[Taco Bell Tower]

Reminds me of that one furry with the Bolt dog porn art who threatened suicide when the shower goblin was exposed.

[HaughtyFrank]

What also annoys me is when people are too simplistic about this stuff because it's not that every single show starring a woman gets downvoted. Like there are some real mental gymnastics over why Wanda Vision wasn't reviewbombed

Review bombing works on the first week of release. For the first week of Wandavision, viewers don't that it's all about Wanda yet. And even to the very end, Vision still plays a key role so the show isn't as obviously driven by the female leads in the same way. Loki and Hawkeye are in similar boats where the female leads are probably more important than the male ones, but this isn't noticeable until later on in the show.

Just no, Wanda was absolutely the lead of that show from the get go. Also a convenient logic that review bombing only applies for the very first week? Why would that keep people from posting negative reviews down the line?

And while I don't agree with the review bombing it also feels to me like She-hulk is pretty heavy handed with it's message which is something not everyone likes.

https://twitter.com/MCU_Direct/status/1559026316095246337

(Is that an analog to Elon Musk?  )

So it's clearly a different kind of show from those others

[Nintex]

It's quite something how quickly Marvel changed teams

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-crabs-in-a-bucket-mentality-is-toxic-as-fuck-for-us-as-a-society.624319/

Ever since the announcement yesterday of Federal student relief for US Students - I just keep seeing left and right this mentality of "I had to pay mine-I had to suffer! It's not fair."

How can we ever make any progress in society with this mentality? I see people responding to this and trying to make them see the light but they can't. They're so wrapped up in their own little world and history that they can't see the big picture.

"If I had to suffer-so should others." "What about ME??"

I know this has been said before but its like if a cure for an illness was found. Is it fair to the people who died before? No-but we have to move forward to make things better for people in the future.

It's so frustrating.

[Uncle]

the commoditization of negativity/victimhood

news comes out -- how can I interpret this in a light that paints me as a victim, deserving of recompense?

people beg because it eventually works

[Polident Hive]

Getting into tinfoil territory, these review bombing stories and others of its ilk are starting to feel prewritten. Yesterday I came across a headline about House of Dragon. Racist fans angry about a black actor playing Targ/Velaryon. Actor addresses it. Etc. But the reception to the episode is overwhelmingly positive. Going by the one true metric, IMDB, it has a 9/10. Might as well be Shawshank as directed by Nolan for them. Not at all doubting there’s racist discourse out there. But if you have to seek it out, why bother?

Back to she hulk, gotta keep people talking about it in lieu of real substantive discussion.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/denuvo-launches-the-industry%E2%80%99s-first-nintendo-switch-emulator-protection-update-no-online-checks-dumping-games-is-a-false-argument-denuvo-states.623635/

Maybe someone more knowledgeable about the WAREZ and APPZ scene can correct me, but I’m pretty sure there aren’t any PC games that aren’t cracked and distributed for piracy day one. So what are these things even really doing?

I'm not an expert on these things, but apparently Denuvo has gotten quite effective lately and plenty of PC games still haven't been cracked yet.

Source: my brother pirates PC games

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

feels to me like She-hulk is pretty heavy handed with it's message which is something not everyone likes.

Uh, sweaty, I think the writer of Pickle Rick knows how to write with a little finesse

[Propagandhim]

Accepting and supporting Denuvo, by buying games protected by their technology, will lead to them to be able to expand their business like this.

This is a great argument.    An otherwise paying consumer will take up the mantle and decide to not pay money for a game with Denuvo DRM so other people can pirate it.   That'll work.   The only thing a paying consumer cares about is whether or not the DRM is intrusive, not whether or not someone who doesn't pay for it can pirate it or "preserve" it. 

Oh gross, so that means we're gonna start getting microstutters on fucking Switch games? cause that's all Denuvo is good for, causing microstutters until pirates eventually crack it to fix that shit.

It's not 2018 anymore, Denuvo implementation is much different today and doesn't affect performance on a modern computer.  Anyone who says it does, is on some old piece of shit.  If it does, it gets fixed almost immediately.  I dunno man, either stop stealing shit/justifying stealing shit or stop complaining about crunch and draconian labor practices in game dev.  Pick one.

[Taco Bell Tower]

What the hell... I don't own a switch or any of its games, but if I did I sure as hell would emulate them on my PC, same as I do with my PS1 and PS2 games. Again paying customers pay for the illusion of piracy

Sure Jan

[HaughtyFrank]

It's all Kotakus fault

https://kotaku.com/metroid-dread-is-already-running-great-on-switch-emulat-1847833403

Editor’s Note: Per a request by Nintendo, we have updated the article to generally reassert that Kotaku does not promote or encourage piracy. Kotaku declined to enact changes that blurred the line between suggestions and aggressive line edits to preserve editorial independence.

[Maiden Voyage]

That’s got to be a record thread closing.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/damn-it-feels-amazing-to-rent-property.624415/

[Joe Molotov]

That’s got to be a record thread closing.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/damn-it-feels-amazing-to-rent-property.624415/

[Taco Bell Tower]

I have the money to buy and rent out a property somewhere in Middle America but I'm not doing it because I ain't a landlord.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/john-boyega-says-he-won%E2%80%99t-return-to-%E2%80%98star-wars%E2%80%99-franchise.623587/

Between racist idiots you have to deal with and how movies absolutely obliterated Finn as a character (amongst others), I am not surprised.

[Yulwei]

I like She-Hulk. It's a fun show with great pacing. However, in the very first episode we had the MC look into the camera and in a deadpan manner patronize her cousin about how she had to endure getting catcalled and that's why she was so much better at controlling her anger. Meanwhile the said cousin is the Hulk, a man who was hunted down like a dog by the US military for the past 15 years of his life. You'd have to be seriously delusional and twitter poisoned to think a scene like that would only bother the typical right wing culture warriors

It was a bad scene, no two ways about it. Show is still fun and episode 2 was much better.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/warner-bros-has-lost-20b-dollars.624430/
How do you know Ree people can't read?

Following the merger with Discovery, Warner Bros has now lost 20 Billion Dollars and all. Following all the recent news...this is a massive yikes

Warner Bros. Discovery Lost $20 Billion in Market Cap Trying to Cut $3 Billion in Costs

Literally right in the title

[Propagandhim]

That’s got to be a record thread closing.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/damn-it-feels-amazing-to-rent-property.624415/

 

[Propagandhim]

tfw you don't have a rich aunt

[Taco Bell Tower]

 

[thetylerrob]

(Image removed from quote.)

tfw you don't have a rich aunt

So men are the problem.

KILL ALL MEN

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-how-the-sexual-revolution-has-hurt-women.621642/#post-91813572

User banned (1 month): Creating a Misogynistic Bad Faith Thread

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-sexual-revolution-has-hurt-women-11660921139
How the Sexual Revolution Has Hurt Women
In today’s hookup culture the sexual playing field is not even, but it suits men’s interests to pretend that it is. Women are entitled to be angry.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com

In the West, hookup culture is normative among adolescents and young adults. Although it is possible for young women to opt out, research suggests that only a minority do. Absent some kind of religious commitment, this is now the " normal" route presented to girls as they become sexually active. And hookup culture demands that women suppress their natural instincts in order to match male sexuality and thus meet the male demand for no-strings sex.

In a sexual marketplace in which such a culture prevails, a woman who refuses to participate puts herself at a disadvantage. As one group of researchers put it, "some individual women may be capitulating to men's preferences for casual sexual encounters because, if they do not, someone else will."

Yet studies consistently find that following hookups, women are more likely than men to experience regret, low self-esteem and mental distress. Female pleasure is rare during casual sex. Men in casual relationships are just not as good at bringing women to orgasm in comparison with men in committed relationships: In first-time hookups, only 10% of women orgasm, compared with 68% of women in long-term relationships. These figures don't suggest a generation of women reveling in sexual liberation. Instead, a lot of women seem to be having unpleasant sex out of a sense of obligation.

Looked at coolly, we may be able to recognize the existence of a sexual marketplace with its own internal rules and incentive structure, and we can readily identify different interest groups within it. But that's usually not how real people actually feel about their sexual lives, which are not only intimate and messy but also bound up with complicated issues of self-esteem.

If you're a young woman launched into a sexual culture that is fundamentally not geared toward protecting your safety or well-being, in which you are considered valuable only in a very narrow, physical sense, and if your basic options seem to be either hooking up or celibacy, then a comforting myth of "agency" can be attractive. But this myth depends on naiveté about the nature of male sexuality. Too many young women today ignore the fact that men are generally much better suited to emotionless sex and find it much easier to regard their sexual partners as disposable. Too many fail to recognize that being desired by men is not at all the same thing as being held in high esteem.

It isn't nice to think of oneself as disposable or to acknowledge that other people view you that way. It's easier to turn away from any acknowledgment of what is really going on, at least temporarily. I've spoken to many women who participated in hookup culture when they were young and years later came to realize just how unhappy it made them. As one friend put it, "I told myself so many lies, so many lies."

If you're a woman who's had casual sexual relationships with men in the past, you might try answering the following questions as honestly as you can: Did you consider your virginity to be an embarrassing burden you wanted to be rid of? Do you ever feel disgusted when you think about consensual sexual experiences you've had in the past? Have you ever become emotionally attached to a casual sexual partner and concealed this attachment from him? Have you ever done something sexually that you found painful or unpleasant and concealed this discomfort from your partner, either during sex or afterward?

If you answer "no" to all of these questions, your high sociosexuality and good luck have allowed you to navigate successfully a treacherous sexual marketplace. But if you answer "yes" to any of them, you are entitled to feel angry at a sexual culture that set you up to fail.

Today's sexual culture however, prefers to understand people as freewheeling, atomized individuals, all looking out for number one and all up for a good time. It assumes that if all sexual taboos were removed, we would all be liberated and capable of making entirely free choices about our sexual lives, sampling from a menu of delightful options made newly available by the sexual revolution.

In fact, our choices are severely constrained, because we are impressionable creatures who absorb the values and ideas of our surrounding culture. If I am, for instance, a young female student looking for a boyfriend at my 21st- century university, and I don't want to have sex before marriage, then I will find my options limited in a way that they wouldn't have been in 1950.

We can see this rapid shift in social mores through pop culture. In the 1955 movie "Rebel Without a Cause," the teenage protagonist Judy is called a "dirty tramp" by her father for wearing lipstick. Compare this with the current TV hit "Euphoria," in which teenage girls sell nudes online, are choked during sex and suffer the humiliation of seeing revenge porn shared around school. "Euphoria" is supposed to be daring, pushing at the boundaries of acceptability -- but that was also true of "Rebel Without a Cause."

When sex before marriage is expected, and when almost all of the other women participating in my particular sexual market are willing to have sex on a first or second date, then not being willing to do the same becomes a competitive disadvantage. The abstinent young woman must either be tremendously attractive, in order to out-compete her more permissive peers, or she must be content to restrict her dating pool to those men who are as unusual as she is. Being eccentric carries costs.

I'm not reading all that, so some else can if they want to see if the ban can be justified in any way.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-date-someone-who-made-a-transphobic-joke.622315/page-4#post-91909141

User Banned (3 Months): Dismissing Transphobia Over Multiple Posts; Prior Severe Ban for Dismissing Racism

Again, I am not talking about just the average citizen or random people. I am asking why on Era specifically where people should know better and spout hell and holy fire about most forms of bigotry all of a sudden put on the kids glove when becomes about Transphobia? I am super asking about this board specifically, if it was the same exact situation but his date has made a racial comment I am pretty sure there wouldn't be the same amount of posts saying it's probably just ignorance and try to educate.

I guess in some ways I am trying to educate or hold a mirror up here because this forum itself, which prides itself on being progressive and it's inclusivity still has a long way to go on this issue.

Unless this lady is on Era I don’t know where your argument is coming from?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-date-someone-who-made-a-transphobic-joke.622315/page-4#post-91909387

User Banned (2 Weeks): Downplaying Transphobia

My wife is in the medical field and is transphobic, but I have two kids with her so I’m not gonna leave her because of the shit she says. I just disagree with it and move on, I don’t really care enough about her opinions on it so it’s in one ear and out the other.

A lot of my family are unfortunately transphobic but you can replace friends easily, not family. I’m not gonna break contact with anyone due to their opinions unless the shit is completely fucked up. I do find how weird it is that my wife and family are so forward thinking in other aspects like gay marriage etc which in my Indian community is quite a big deal, but they transphobic.

If people here have broken up with their significant other due to their opinions or stopped talking to family then good on you. I don’t have the balls to do that, very few people will ever have your back like family in my personal experience.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-didn%E2%80%99t-know-pain-and-then-i-exposed-a-hemorrhoid-and-fissure-at-the-same-time-on-thursday.624298/#post-92148358

This is literally exactly why I don't bottom for my girlfriend.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/anyone-have-advice-on-applying-for-disability-benefits.589494/

[Propagandhim]

Banned for not divorcing wife   


That's my only takeaway from that one, because he clearly didn't 'downplay' anything. 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-how-the-sexual-revolution-has-hurt-women.621642/#post-91813572

User banned (1 month): Creating a Misogynistic Bad Faith Thread

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-sexual-revolution-has-hurt-women-11660921139
How the Sexual Revolution Has Hurt Women
In today’s hookup culture the sexual playing field is not even, but it suits men’s interests to pretend that it is. Women are entitled to be angry.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com

In the West, hookup culture is normative among adolescents and young adults. Although it is possible for young women to opt out, research suggests that only a minority do. Absent some kind of religious commitment, this is now the " normal" route presented to girls as they become sexually active. And hookup culture demands that women suppress their natural instincts in order to match male sexuality and thus meet the male demand for no-strings sex.

In a sexual marketplace in which such a culture prevails, a woman who refuses to participate puts herself at a disadvantage. As one group of researchers put it, "some individual women may be capitulating to men's preferences for casual sexual encounters because, if they do not, someone else will."

Yet studies consistently find that following hookups, women are more likely than men to experience regret, low self-esteem and mental distress. Female pleasure is rare during casual sex. Men in casual relationships are just not as good at bringing women to orgasm in comparison with men in committed relationships: In first-time hookups, only 10% of women orgasm, compared with 68% of women in long-term relationships. These figures don't suggest a generation of women reveling in sexual liberation. Instead, a lot of women seem to be having unpleasant sex out of a sense of obligation.

Looked at coolly, we may be able to recognize the existence of a sexual marketplace with its own internal rules and incentive structure, and we can readily identify different interest groups within it. But that's usually not how real people actually feel about their sexual lives, which are not only intimate and messy but also bound up with complicated issues of self-esteem.

If you're a young woman launched into a sexual culture that is fundamentally not geared toward protecting your safety or well-being, in which you are considered valuable only in a very narrow, physical sense, and if your basic options seem to be either hooking up or celibacy, then a comforting myth of "agency" can be attractive. But this myth depends on naiveté about the nature of male sexuality. Too many young women today ignore the fact that men are generally much better suited to emotionless sex and find it much easier to regard their sexual partners as disposable. Too many fail to recognize that being desired by men is not at all the same thing as being held in high esteem.

It isn't nice to think of oneself as disposable or to acknowledge that other people view you that way. It's easier to turn away from any acknowledgment of what is really going on, at least temporarily. I've spoken to many women who participated in hookup culture when they were young and years later came to realize just how unhappy it made them. As one friend put it, "I told myself so many lies, so many lies."

If you're a woman who's had casual sexual relationships with men in the past, you might try answering the following questions as honestly as you can: Did you consider your virginity to be an embarrassing burden you wanted to be rid of? Do you ever feel disgusted when you think about consensual sexual experiences you've had in the past? Have you ever become emotionally attached to a casual sexual partner and concealed this attachment from him? Have you ever done something sexually that you found painful or unpleasant and concealed this discomfort from your partner, either during sex or afterward?

If you answer "no" to all of these questions, your high sociosexuality and good luck have allowed you to navigate successfully a treacherous sexual marketplace. But if you answer "yes" to any of them, you are entitled to feel angry at a sexual culture that set you up to fail.

Today's sexual culture however, prefers to understand people as freewheeling, atomized individuals, all looking out for number one and all up for a good time. It assumes that if all sexual taboos were removed, we would all be liberated and capable of making entirely free choices about our sexual lives, sampling from a menu of delightful options made newly available by the sexual revolution.

In fact, our choices are severely constrained, because we are impressionable creatures who absorb the values and ideas of our surrounding culture. If I am, for instance, a young female student looking for a boyfriend at my 21st- century university, and I don't want to have sex before marriage, then I will find my options limited in a way that they wouldn't have been in 1950.

We can see this rapid shift in social mores through pop culture. In the 1955 movie "Rebel Without a Cause," the teenage protagonist Judy is called a "dirty tramp" by her father for wearing lipstick. Compare this with the current TV hit "Euphoria," in which teenage girls sell nudes online, are choked during sex and suffer the humiliation of seeing revenge porn shared around school. "Euphoria" is supposed to be daring, pushing at the boundaries of acceptability -- but that was also true of "Rebel Without a Cause."

When sex before marriage is expected, and when almost all of the other women participating in my particular sexual market are willing to have sex on a first or second date, then not being willing to do the same becomes a competitive disadvantage. The abstinent young woman must either be tremendously attractive, in order to out-compete her more permissive peers, or she must be content to restrict her dating pool to those men who are as unusual as she is. Being eccentric carries costs.

I'm not reading all that, so some else can if they want to see if the ban can be justified in any way.

Likely why

The authors Twitter account is retweeting some very dodgy people including people affiliated with Ben Shapiro

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/some-the-last-of-us-hbo-series-footage-revealed.622495/page-11#post-91985563

User banned (permanent): Inappropriate sexist commentary. Prior severe ban for dismissing concerns around sexism.

All this black Sarah talk is distracting you all from the real issue :

Ellie looks like a goblin person.

Joel is such a knockout and the bullshit PR of “we got all people who love the game” doesn’t fly for a girl her age to be playing a rated M game lol.

Maybe her acting will be a lot better to sell me on the role but she doesn’t look it from this small glimpse. Still cautiously optimistic .

[Yulwei]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-date-someone-who-made-a-transphobic-joke.622315/page-4#post-91909141

User Banned (3 Months): Dismissing Transphobia Over Multiple Posts; Prior Severe Ban for Dismissing Racism

Again, I am not talking about just the average citizen or random people. I am asking why on Era specifically where people should know better and spout hell and holy fire about most forms of bigotry all of a sudden put on the kids glove when becomes about Transphobia? I am super asking about this board specifically, if it was the same exact situation but his date has made a racial comment I am pretty sure there wouldn't be the same amount of posts saying it's probably just ignorance and try to educate.

I guess in some ways I am trying to educate or hold a mirror up here because this forum itself, which prides itself on being progressive and it's inclusivity still has a long way to go on this issue.

Unless this lady is on Era I don’t know where your argument is coming from?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-date-someone-who-made-a-transphobic-joke.622315/page-4#post-91909387

User Banned (2 Weeks): Downplaying Transphobia

My wife is in the medical field and is transphobic, but I have two kids with her so I’m not gonna leave her because of the shit she says. I just disagree with it and move on, I don’t really care enough about her opinions on it so it’s in one ear and out the other.

A lot of my family are unfortunately transphobic but you can replace friends easily, not family. I’m not gonna break contact with anyone due to their opinions unless the shit is completely fucked up. I do find how weird it is that my wife and family are so forward thinking in other aspects like gay marriage etc which in my Indian community is quite a big deal, but they transphobic.

If people here have broken up with their significant other due to their opinions or stopped talking to family then good on you. I don’t have the balls to do that, very few people will ever have your back like family in my personal experience.

Most obvious ban bait thread in the universe and they still fell for it 

Dude airing out his wife and family thinking he would get ree brownie  points but he just got banned instead  . Now that's on his record and the next time he steps out of line it's a perm 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/wsj-how-the-sexual-revolution-has-hurt-women.621642/#post-91813572

User banned (1 month): Creating a Misogynistic Bad Faith Thread

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-sexual-revolution-has-hurt-women-11660921139
How the Sexual Revolution Has Hurt Women
In today’s hookup culture the sexual playing field is not even, but it suits men’s interests to pretend that it is. Women are entitled to be angry.
www.wsj.com www.wsj.com

In the West, hookup culture is normative among adolescents and young adults. Although it is possible for young women to opt out, research suggests that only a minority do. Absent some kind of religious commitment, this is now the " normal" route presented to girls as they become sexually active. And hookup culture demands that women suppress their natural instincts in order to match male sexuality and thus meet the male demand for no-strings sex.

In a sexual marketplace in which such a culture prevails, a woman who refuses to participate puts herself at a disadvantage. As one group of researchers put it, "some individual women may be capitulating to men's preferences for casual sexual encounters because, if they do not, someone else will."

Yet studies consistently find that following hookups, women are more likely than men to experience regret, low self-esteem and mental distress. Female pleasure is rare during casual sex. Men in casual relationships are just not as good at bringing women to orgasm in comparison with men in committed relationships: In first-time hookups, only 10% of women orgasm, compared with 68% of women in long-term relationships. These figures don't suggest a generation of women reveling in sexual liberation. Instead, a lot of women seem to be having unpleasant sex out of a sense of obligation.

Looked at coolly, we may be able to recognize the existence of a sexual marketplace with its own internal rules and incentive structure, and we can readily identify different interest groups within it. But that's usually not how real people actually feel about their sexual lives, which are not only intimate and messy but also bound up with complicated issues of self-esteem.

If you're a young woman launched into a sexual culture that is fundamentally not geared toward protecting your safety or well-being, in which you are considered valuable only in a very narrow, physical sense, and if your basic options seem to be either hooking up or celibacy, then a comforting myth of "agency" can be attractive. But this myth depends on naiveté about the nature of male sexuality. Too many young women today ignore the fact that men are generally much better suited to emotionless sex and find it much easier to regard their sexual partners as disposable. Too many fail to recognize that being desired by men is not at all the same thing as being held in high esteem.

It isn't nice to think of oneself as disposable or to acknowledge that other people view you that way. It's easier to turn away from any acknowledgment of what is really going on, at least temporarily. I've spoken to many women who participated in hookup culture when they were young and years later came to realize just how unhappy it made them. As one friend put it, "I told myself so many lies, so many lies."

If you're a woman who's had casual sexual relationships with men in the past, you might try answering the following questions as honestly as you can: Did you consider your virginity to be an embarrassing burden you wanted to be rid of? Do you ever feel disgusted when you think about consensual sexual experiences you've had in the past? Have you ever become emotionally attached to a casual sexual partner and concealed this attachment from him? Have you ever done something sexually that you found painful or unpleasant and concealed this discomfort from your partner, either during sex or afterward?

If you answer "no" to all of these questions, your high sociosexuality and good luck have allowed you to navigate successfully a treacherous sexual marketplace. But if you answer "yes" to any of them, you are entitled to feel angry at a sexual culture that set you up to fail.

Today's sexual culture however, prefers to understand people as freewheeling, atomized individuals, all looking out for number one and all up for a good time. It assumes that if all sexual taboos were removed, we would all be liberated and capable of making entirely free choices about our sexual lives, sampling from a menu of delightful options made newly available by the sexual revolution.

In fact, our choices are severely constrained, because we are impressionable creatures who absorb the values and ideas of our surrounding culture. If I am, for instance, a young female student looking for a boyfriend at my 21st- century university, and I don't want to have sex before marriage, then I will find my options limited in a way that they wouldn't have been in 1950.

We can see this rapid shift in social mores through pop culture. In the 1955 movie "Rebel Without a Cause," the teenage protagonist Judy is called a "dirty tramp" by her father for wearing lipstick. Compare this with the current TV hit "Euphoria," in which teenage girls sell nudes online, are choked during sex and suffer the humiliation of seeing revenge porn shared around school. "Euphoria" is supposed to be daring, pushing at the boundaries of acceptability -- but that was also true of "Rebel Without a Cause."

When sex before marriage is expected, and when almost all of the other women participating in my particular sexual market are willing to have sex on a first or second date, then not being willing to do the same becomes a competitive disadvantage. The abstinent young woman must either be tremendously attractive, in order to out-compete her more permissive peers, or she must be content to restrict her dating pool to those men who are as unusual as she is. Being eccentric carries costs.

I'm not reading all that, so some else can if they want to see if the ban can be justified in any way.

Likely why

The authors Twitter account is retweeting some very dodgy people including people affiliated with Ben Shapiro

It sounds weird because a Guardian review of her book was salivating for her.

[Boredfrom]

Also, this kind of stuff is naive:

In fact, our choices are severely constrained, because we are impressionable creatures who absorb the values and ideas of our surrounding culture. If I am, for instance, a young female student looking for a boyfriend at my 21st- century university, and I don't want to have sex before marriage, then I will find my options limited in a way that they wouldn't have been in 1950.

 

Thinking that guys before 1950 were virgins before marriage.

Also, are you mad that you are limited to like minded people?  are you saying that you like minded people are lacking?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/some-the-last-of-us-hbo-series-footage-revealed.622495/page-11#post-91985563

User banned (permanent): Inappropriate sexist commentary. Prior severe ban for dismissing concerns around sexism.

All this black Sarah talk is distracting you all from the real issue :

Ellie looks like a goblin person.

Joel is such a knockout and the bullshit PR of “we got all people who love the game” doesn’t fly for a girl her age to be playing a rated M game lol.

Maybe her acting will be a lot better to sell me on the role but she doesn’t look it from this small glimpse. Still cautiously optimistic .

The girl is definitely not conventionally attractive but if you think that's an important part about Ellie... 

[Boredfrom]

I dunno, seem to be just a Sex Negative feminist that is getting shared by the conservative sphere even if she doesn’t consider conservative or  progressive.

I really dunno about her . I can’t say I’m a fan of this type of opinions but are not by default outside of how some feminists think. I imagine there is a reason why she is conservative friendly, thought, given that other sex negative feminists would not be touched by them.

[benjipwns]

I had a friend whose wife forced him into an "open" relationship knowing full well that he's a devoted caring person who would never seek out other people

he is now a happily divorced single dad and her parents are furious with the way she behaved, saying they lost a daughter but gained a son

Sounds like she doesn't have to deal with fascists anymore.

[benjipwns]

No one seems to mention that there's also a relentless amount of positive review bombing (and it's even slightly ahead of the negative one). There are no winners in culture wars

There was another example of this last year or so, there was a thread about some kind of "hate bombing" of some LGBT shows or something. But in the articles from the thread one had a picture of the review graphs and it looked just like She-Hulks, like 80+% of the reviews were either 1s or 10s and there were more 10s than the 1s. There were all kinds of stories about the hateful review bombing but not a single one mentioned the review bombing of 10s, those were just treated as natural proper reviews.

[benjipwns]

(Image removed from quote.)

tfw you don't have a rich aunt

So men are the problem.

KILL ALL MEN

[Propagandhim]

 

[benjipwns]

Maybe imbd should like, look into the accounts that are review bombing, connect the dots (this account keeps giving one star reviews to women and poc led shows / movies) and fucking ban them/remove the reviews?

They think imdb should pay someone, maybe an entire team, to go through user accounts and determine if their reviews are negative to "diverse" movies and shows in a statistically significant manner.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1562518200226418690

Disney can make mediocre content and demands you give it 5/5 stars otherwise their stars will just label you a racist/bigot/sexist/transphobe whatever.
They've started this shit with Star Wars so why not for Marvel

As of late, the review bombing of Marvel movies and shows has become a growing problem, with the theatrical feature Eternals

'
Yes it was really a problem that a shit movie was called out for being shit.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1562518200226418690

Disney can make mediocre content and demands you give it 5/5 stars otherwise their stars will just label you a racist/bigot/sexist/transphobe whatever.
They've started this shit with Star Wars so why not for Marvel

As of late, the review bombing of Marvel movies and shows has become a growing problem, with the theatrical feature Eternals

'
Yes it was really a problem that a shit movie was called out for being shit.

maybe they should render better cgi

[Nintex]

All these Marvel folks like Mark are all worried about politics^TM and the sins of capitalism, unless it concerns CGI sweatshops that do all their work for them

[Potato]

It's all Kotakus fault

https://kotaku.com/metroid-dread-is-already-running-great-on-switch-emulat-1847833403

Editor’s Note: Per a request by Nintendo, we have updated the article to generally reassert that Kotaku does not promote or encourage piracy. Kotaku declined to enact changes that blurred the line between suggestions and aggressive line edits to preserve editorial independence.

Kotaku and editorial independence go together like oil and water

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-didn%E2%80%99t-know-pain-and-then-i-exposed-a-hemorrhoid-and-fissure-at-the-same-time-on-thursday.624298/#post-92157862

Wait...is this a concern when bottoming? I was gonna for my gf and now OP and these posts have scared me.

Lots and lots of lube and you should be okay

Also don’t go full hog right away, ease into it

I've never been so scared after this thread omg. I need to buy so much.

Ok maybe not like buckets lol

Just apply liberally before and during

The lube needs to be in you as well as on the toy.

Slow. Communication.

Wait, so just squirt it inside too?

You gently finger it in.

Thank you for this, my gf is long distance so I have time but now that I know we'll go through it slow. Thanks again to everybody who answered my stupid questions!

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-date-someone-who-made-a-transphobic-joke.622315/page-4#post-91909141

User Banned (3 Months): Dismissing Transphobia Over Multiple Posts; Prior Severe Ban for Dismissing Racism

Again, I am not talking about just the average citizen or random people. I am asking why on Era specifically where people should know better and spout hell and holy fire about most forms of bigotry all of a sudden put on the kids glove when becomes about Transphobia? I am super asking about this board specifically, if it was the same exact situation but his date has made a racial comment I am pretty sure there wouldn't be the same amount of posts saying it's probably just ignorance and try to educate.

I guess in some ways I am trying to educate or hold a mirror up here because this forum itself, which prides itself on being progressive and it's inclusivity still has a long way to go on this issue.

Unless this lady is on Era I don’t know where your argument is coming from?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-date-someone-who-made-a-transphobic-joke.622315/page-4#post-91909387

User Banned (2 Weeks): Downplaying Transphobia

My wife is in the medical field and is transphobic, but I have two kids with her so I’m not gonna leave her because of the shit she says. I just disagree with it and move on, I don’t really care enough about her opinions on it so it’s in one ear and out the other.

A lot of my family are unfortunately transphobic but you can replace friends easily, not family. I’m not gonna break contact with anyone due to their opinions unless the shit is completely fucked up. I do find how weird it is that my wife and family are so forward thinking in other aspects like gay marriage etc which in my Indian community is quite a big deal, but they transphobic.

If people here have broken up with their significant other due to their opinions or stopped talking to family then good on you. I don’t have the balls to do that, very few people will ever have your back like family in my personal experience.

I'd love to know what Messofanidiot's wife thinks about trans people. Any woman willing to enter into an arranged marriage in 20XX is certainly not coming from a progressive family background.

[Potato]

Maybe imbd should like, look into the accounts that are review bombing, connect the dots (this account keeps giving one star reviews to women and poc led shows / movies) and fucking ban them/remove the reviews?

They think imdb should pay someone, maybe an entire team, to go through user accounts and determine if their reviews are negative to "diverse" movies and shows in a statistically significant manner.

FACT CHECK: It's Resetera, moderators willingly do not seek remuneration from their multi-million dollar corporation bosses and actually actively avoid getting paid. So check your (white) privilege you Gamergate genocider.

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-didn%E2%80%99t-know-pain-and-then-i-exposed-a-hemorrhoid-and-fissure-at-the-same-time-on-thursday.624298/#post-92157862

Wait...is this a concern when bottoming? I was gonna for my gf and now OP and these posts have scared me.

Lots and lots of lube and you should be okay

Also don’t go full hog right away, ease into it

I've never been so scared after this thread omg. I need to buy so much.

Ok maybe not like buckets lol

Just apply liberally before and during

The lube needs to be in you as well as on the toy.

Slow. Communication.

Wait, so just squirt it inside too?

You gently finger it in.

Thank you for this, my gf is long distance so I have time but now that I know we'll go through it slow. Thanks again to everybody who answered my stupid questions!

But is his girlfriend using her penis or a strap-on?

[Potato]

https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1562518200226418690

Disney can make mediocre content and demands you give it 5/5 stars otherwise their stars will just label you a racist/bigot/sexist/transphobe whatever.
They've started this shit with Star Wars so why not for Marvel

As of late, the review bombing of Marvel movies and shows has become a growing problem, with the theatrical feature Eternals

'
Yes it was really a problem that a shit movie was called out for being shit.

maybe they should render better cgi

Can they use a whip or another type of physical violence to get more out of these third party effects houses? Because bullying doesn't seem to be working.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-date-someone-who-made-a-transphobic-joke.622315/page-4#post-91909141

User Banned (3 Months): Dismissing Transphobia Over Multiple Posts; Prior Severe Ban for Dismissing Racism

Again, I am not talking about just the average citizen or random people. I am asking why on Era specifically where people should know better and spout hell and holy fire about most forms of bigotry all of a sudden put on the kids glove when becomes about Transphobia? I am super asking about this board specifically, if it was the same exact situation but his date has made a racial comment I am pretty sure there wouldn't be the same amount of posts saying it's probably just ignorance and try to educate.

I guess in some ways I am trying to educate or hold a mirror up here because this forum itself, which prides itself on being progressive and it's inclusivity still has a long way to go on this issue.

Unless this lady is on Era I don’t know where your argument is coming from?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-date-someone-who-made-a-transphobic-joke.622315/page-4#post-91909387

User Banned (2 Weeks): Downplaying Transphobia

My wife is in the medical field and is transphobic, but I have two kids with her so I’m not gonna leave her because of the shit she says. I just disagree with it and move on, I don’t really care enough about her opinions on it so it’s in one ear and out the other.

A lot of my family are unfortunately transphobic but you can replace friends easily, not family. I’m not gonna break contact with anyone due to their opinions unless the shit is completely fucked up. I do find how weird it is that my wife and family are so forward thinking in other aspects like gay marriage etc which in my Indian community is quite a big deal, but they transphobic.

If people here have broken up with their significant other due to their opinions or stopped talking to family then good on you. I don’t have the balls to do that, very few people will ever have your back like family in my personal experience.

I'd love to know what Messofanidiot's wife thinks about trans people. Any woman willing to enter into an arranged marriage in 20XX is certainly not coming from a progressive family background.

What makes you think that Massofanego cares about what his wife thinks?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-date-someone-who-made-a-transphobic-joke.622315/page-4#post-91909141

User Banned (3 Months): Dismissing Transphobia Over Multiple Posts; Prior Severe Ban for Dismissing Racism

Again, I am not talking about just the average citizen or random people. I am asking why on Era specifically where people should know better and spout hell and holy fire about most forms of bigotry all of a sudden put on the kids glove when becomes about Transphobia? I am super asking about this board specifically, if it was the same exact situation but his date has made a racial comment I am pretty sure there wouldn't be the same amount of posts saying it's probably just ignorance and try to educate.

I guess in some ways I am trying to educate or hold a mirror up here because this forum itself, which prides itself on being progressive and it's inclusivity still has a long way to go on this issue.

Unless this lady is on Era I don’t know where your argument is coming from?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/would-you-date-someone-who-made-a-transphobic-joke.622315/page-4#post-91909387

User Banned (2 Weeks): Downplaying Transphobia

My wife is in the medical field and is transphobic, but I have two kids with her so I’m not gonna leave her because of the shit she says. I just disagree with it and move on, I don’t really care enough about her opinions on it so it’s in one ear and out the other.

A lot of my family are unfortunately transphobic but you can replace friends easily, not family. I’m not gonna break contact with anyone due to their opinions unless the shit is completely fucked up. I do find how weird it is that my wife and family are so forward thinking in other aspects like gay marriage etc which in my Indian community is quite a big deal, but they transphobic.

If people here have broken up with their significant other due to their opinions or stopped talking to family then good on you. I don’t have the balls to do that, very few people will ever have your back like family in my personal experience.

I'd love to know what Messofanidiot's wife thinks about trans people. Any woman willing to enter into an arranged marriage in 20XX is certainly not coming from a progressive family background.

What makes you think that Massofanego cares about what his wife thinks?

I'm pretty sure he gave her permission to care

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/fia-formula-one-2022-ot-masiffect-raceweek-14-spa-26-28th-august-onelastride.550801/page-414#post-92127403

https://www.racefans.net/2022/08/25/domenicali-sees-no-need-for-andretti-or-other-new-team-to-join-f1/
Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali says Andretti has been more "vocal" than other aspiring new entrants, but sees no need to add an 11th team.
www.racefans.net

honestly the pushback against a proper American team joining is astounding

https://tvline.com/2022/08/24/bluey-missing-episode-disney-plus-family-meeting-banned-farting-release/
Fart-Focused Bluey Episode, Originally Banned by Disney+, to Receive Release
Despite failing the initial Disney+ sniff test, an episode of the beloved Australian cartoon Bluey will soon be made available to U.S. subscribers.
tvline.com tvline.com

honestly the pushback against a proper American team joining is astounding

I too also found this to be an outrage. My daughter was also not having it.

[Pissy F Benny]

https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/1562518200226418690

Disney can make mediocre content and demands you give it 5/5 stars otherwise their stars will just label you a racist/bigot/sexist/transphobe whatever.
They've started this shit with Star Wars so why not for Marvel

As of late, the review bombing of Marvel movies and shows has become a growing problem, with the theatrical feature Eternals

'
Yes it was really a problem that a shit movie was called out for being shit.

maybe they should render better cgi

Can they use a whip or another type of physical violence to get more out of these third party effects houses? Because bullying doesn't seem to be working.

Not user reviews

[Uncle]

how does ruffalo plan to fix the problem

users have to log in to the site with their real names tied to their disney+ account, which sends data that confirms they did at least allow the episode to play in full before they can make a review?

and when the show is still poorly rated, what then?



steam shows X hours played on record, and they STILL have a system in place to prevent showing periods of "off-topic review activity," as if that doesn't represent peoples' actual feelings at that time

[PogiJones]

I really don't understand how "people don't like preachy shows" is such a hard concept to grasp for these people.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Well that was quick. Banned.

After years of remaining silent I emerge from my hole and make one innocent thread about the time I tried to wash a 10 year old boy.

I’ve shared too much.

[benjipwns]

how does ruffalo plan to fix the problem

users have to log in to the site with their real names tied to their disney+ account, which sends data that confirms they did at least allow the episode to play in full before they can make a review?

and when the show is still poorly rated, what then?

Why would the shows be poorly rated once they ban the bad faith white supremacists?

[BIONIC]

Well that was quick. Banned.

After years of remaining silent I emerge from my hole and make one innocent thread about the time I tried to wash a 10 year old boy.

I’ve shared too much.

[ShutUp]

The pearl clutching over She-Hulk getting review bombed when we just had a fantastic, critically acclaimed, female lead Predator movie is hilarious.

[FUME5]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/i-didn%E2%80%99t-know-pain-and-then-i-exposed-a-hemorrhoid-and-fissure-at-the-same-time-on-thursday.624298/

Guess the OP

I guessed correctly.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/quest-pro-project-cambria-seemingly-revealed-for-august.624475/#post-92168791

We do not wish to provide a platform for Joe Rogan content here, and such, this thread is closed.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/daily-beast-laid-off-hbo-max-execs-reveal-wbd-is-killing-off-diversity-and-courting-middle-america.624355/#post-92151319

What does "Middle America" watch?

I have a friend who works in Hollywood and a few months ago he mentioned the industry broadly was chasing stuff “Middle America” will watch, citing Top Gun Maverick‘s huge success as a big part why.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/daily-beast-laid-off-hbo-max-execs-reveal-wbd-is-killing-off-diversity-and-courting-middle-america.624355/page-2#post-92152294

Yea, I thought this was the "lesson" a lot of studio execs were going to take away from Top Gun Maverick. That pro military movies led by white boomers are the way to succeed in today's environment. I didn't expect anyone to say the quiet part out loud so quickly though. WBD is going to turn the DCU into the anti "M she U" to combat "woke Disney" aren't they?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/daily-beast-laid-off-hbo-max-execs-reveal-wbd-is-killing-off-diversity-and-courting-middle-america.624355/page-2#post-92152345

I have a friend who works in Hollywood and a few months ago he mentioned the industry broadly was chasing stuff “Middle America” will watch, citing Top Gun Maverick‘s huge success as a big part why.

I fucking knew it, TGM was gonna be the thing to get people to try to get the boomers back on board with shit. They never fucking left though! Pretty sure 80% of that audience is gonna watch John Wick 4 or Avatar 2.

But what is funny is WBD burning a bridge with Clint Eastwood whose films cater to that specific audience.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/daily-beast-laid-off-hbo-max-execs-reveal-wbd-is-killing-off-diversity-and-courting-middle-america.624355/page-2#post-92152498

So we indirectly have Tom Cruise to thank for the situation we find ourselves in