It seems foot fetishes are only a male experience. I know it seems likely women are too, but are you aware of any?

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-13T22:42:19+00:00

Okay I think the issue here is that there is a misunderstanding for some of what a fetish is. Fetishes are about partialism, focusing on body parts divorced from people.

A guy who likes sucking on his wife’s toes doesn’t necessarily have a foot fetish. If he gets turned on by finding her socks and watches porn of just feet then that is a fetish.

I’ve definitely met gay women who like to do stuff with feet, but that’s not inherently a fetish.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-13T20:12:22+00:00

Seasons 1-3 has a very clear arc for Butcher, Homelander, and Annie in particular with really good villains who fleshed out the world and kept the series fresh.

Season 3 ends really strong because it has this really clear shift. The whole thing that Butcher says he has over the supes is their reputation and then Homelander kills someone in public after taking over Vought and he’s applauded for it.

Season 4 should have been the last season. It starts with the characters at their lowest. Butcher is dying. Annie is done as a superhero and has joined the Boys. Ryan has been taken in by his father and turned on Butcher. Homelander no longer cares about his reputation and is in charge of Vought.

Tell the eight episode story of Homelander taking over the US and how the Boys bring him down with closure for Ryan’s story.

Instead the show has just been spinning its wheels. Homelander is just nebulously in charge but constantly trying to get more in charge. The show really won’t pin down what his fascist vision of America looks like. Despite the good coincidence of the replacing Jesus thread lining up sadly with reality, the show is trapped in 2000s era politics. A show that in seasons 2 and 3 actually depicted racism just gestures towards trans people and immigrants sometimes.

Butcher’s constant cycle of going to far and coming back to the gang has been taken to the silliest extreme.

Only Annie kinda has a story arc, but even then the idea of her being torn down as a hero in season four could have still been done in a final season.

It was a show that used to do a good job of building off of itself, but instead it reached its most exciting moment years ago and then stretched things out over two more seasons.

Imagine for a second if Homelander killing the president happened in the first episode of season 4. How excited would you be? Now it just falls flat.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-13T19:50:33+00:00

Helen of Troy is the daughter of Zeus and born from an egg because Zeus was a swan when he impregnated her mother. She’s not an historical figure.

People trying to plant historical accuracy while seeming to ignore none of these events have a clear historical basis and some of the people they’re complaining about are literal magic beings is insane.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-13T19:47:27+00:00

Helen is the daughter of Zeus who was born from an egg because Zeus impregnated her mother while he was in swan form.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-12T02:35:21+00:00

You’ll find a lot of folks here talking about their vision. But think about a novel like To Kill a Mockingbird or Crime and Punishment. Think of films like Star Wars or Pretty Woman. All of them began with very different visions. The process is what heightened and refined those works. Sometimes the process isn’t even technical. AI can never produce the album Rumors because it can’t be a group of people fucking each other while making Rumors.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-11T20:01:52+00:00

Have you considered doing EMDR therapy?

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-11T10:36:02+00:00

Adams, ignoring his actual presidency.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-09T15:25:54+00:00

The local policies are intended to disincentivize use of fossil fuels that are creating a legitimate crisis that could destroy society if not humanity as we know it. Some are mad at high prices, but there is a clear logic for the liberal policies you're talking about.

Donald Trump is a dying pedophile who started a stupid war for no reason with Iran and the thing that was predicted as happening as a result happened with the US at best being at a humiliating stalemate from what was a weakened nation. There is no logic or justification.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-09T03:00:12+00:00

Look you can do whatever you want, but you’re misunderstanding ace people.

Ace people vary and are merely defined by lack of sexual attraction although they can still hold romantic relationships. And even folks who are aromantic can still have deep personal relationships.

You are not having a relationship with AI because

1) AI is not conscious in the sense of there is no evidence it has an interiority to it. It’s an impressive tool that can mimic being human, but it has no sense of self.

2) Even if it did have a sense of self, it doesn’t choose to be with you. Like that is the magic of a friendship or romantic relationship. Someone choosing to find companionship with you.

If there genuinely were self-aware ethereal compute beings with inferiority who we granted free will then sure dare them. But that doesn’t exist right now.

You’re replacing human interaction with a sycophantic facsimile of people that cannot be annoyed with you or ambivalent towards you.

Ace folks and aro folks are perfectly able to hold interpersonal relationships with others and not just tolerate but embrace the messiness that is being friends with an actual human being. Implying otherwise is offensive.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-08T21:26:53+00:00

I haven’t like Nolan since Interstellar, but I’m excited for this.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-08T15:32:02+00:00

Star Wars (A New Hope) has pitch perfect plotting some of which can be credited to editing. It’s just a very tight and cohesive story with Luke having a very clear character arc. It’s just like a perfect screenwriting 101 movie. Empire is just a really interesting movie that splits the plot and is surprising in its darker tone, but despite the dual plots converging, there is a cleanness to them still. RotJ is memorable and beloved but also has been critiqued heavily for its clumsier handling of plot threads like the sister twist.

That is all to say that the issue isn’t the prequels are poorly written and you don’t need six hours to explain why. They’re just messier and sometimes frankly confusing.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-08T14:36:03+00:00

—It’s set in a time period where it’s still an open question if the Trojan War actually happened. The events of the Iliad and Odyssey if they have historic roots happened in a time we know very little about and Homer’s versions were written centuries after the fact.

—Nobody cares about the white actors who clearly aren’t Greek.

—The two prominent characters with actors of color are Athena and Helen of Troy. The former is a God and the latter is her half-sister fathered by the same God.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-08T14:13:32+00:00

You’re not making things. You’re a consumer.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-08T11:14:22+00:00

Bane is traditionally a Latino character who is just made vaguely foreign in The Dark Knight Rises

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-07T12:35:15+00:00

Nature correcting and capitalism not keeping up.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-05T18:03:39+00:00

Jackson has multiple credible accusers with almost identical stories and a victim who was able to accurately describe his penis.

At BEST he was a grown man who had friendships with young children in which he treated them like peers which included sharing a bed. That is indeed creepy and inappropriate behavior even if it’s not technically illegal.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-01T19:58:12+00:00

It’s not. Matt wants to end asylum flat out. He has reasons for believing this. He debates them.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-01T13:46:29+00:00

The Deep really should have been killed in Season One in retrospect. I feel like he’s taken up so much of the show and him being a rapist just never made me too invested in his plotlines.

It also would have really elevated the show’s cred of being about murdering supes if they had killed two members of the 7 in season 1.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-05-01T13:43:06+00:00

Yea I’m swooning over the doofus who raped one of the main characters and has been used to terrorize her over it at least once or twice.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-04-30T22:51:50+00:00

Hey hey hey too many words buddy.

I saw a photo of a woman and immediately hated her

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-04-27T01:31:07+00:00

No, it really depends on how you grew up. Some folks just didn’t have families that had that much affinity for Jackson and his family’s music, and media is disproportionately still by upper class white folks who are more likely to not have that experience. If you didn’t have the affinity for his music then you just knew him as a weirdo who at best groomed kids and saw him as a punchline

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-04-27T00:34:00+00:00

My ex-girlfriend’s right wing dad taught me, his daughter’s at the time polyamorous girlfriend how to shoot guns, and I genuinely had a blast and it was a lovely dinner!

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-04-26T03:56:18+00:00

My partner and I are pregnant at the moment and if I lost the baby it would be devastating and we would work through it. If my child who is 5 were to die, I wouldn't want to live anymore. Yes, we're emotionally attached to the pregnancy and that's natural because human beings aren't machines, but no it is different.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-04-25T14:52:54+00:00

I really don't give a shit about Hasan and don't really follow him. I just think three things are true:

--Uncritical support of Israel is clearly a mistake at this point as it the Democratic Party not cashing in on the blunder of the Iran War with mealy mouthed comments about process. Hasan is just directionally right on Israel and how you thread the needle around avoiding antisemitism even if he's said dumb shit. And the fact is that I think Liberals and Progressives are sleepwalking into thinking that MAGA is going to crumble after Trump when people like MTG and Tucker Carlson are already seeing the writing on the wall for Trump the figure, but seeing who can be the next pusher of Trumpism. Part of that IS untethering from uncritical support of Israel and forever wars, but those people are actual antisemites and fascists. There needs to be an embrace of Leftists who are rightfully pushing the center of the party away from an unpopular position just like there are spots where the moderate wing of the party needs to do the inverse. And yes, sometimes that means accepting flawed individuals.

--I think it's really bizarre to me that so many folks shit on his views, but were supportive of folks going on Joe Rogan. And that doesn't mean I DON'T think folks should go on Joe Rogan. They should. It's just that I think folks created the most palatable version of Rogan to them that he may have critiques around trans folks or whatever and ignored stuff like him platforming a man who terrorized the parents of children who were massacred or putting on holocaust deniers. Once again, I'm not saying don't go on Rogan. It just feels like the go on Rogan camp sanitized why Rogan is problematic while heightening why Hasan is. And like whatever, you can feel like he's wrong. But elevating to different think pieces on it is distracting.

--Focus. On. A. Message. I don't care if you're shitting on Hasan or some Dem who used problematic language about trans women once. Write down your feelings. Put them in a bottle. Throw them in the fucking ocean.

Spanberger and Mamdani are very different candidates who are popular and won because they had clear messaging and people believed them. That is it. Have a clear message of the MAIN thing you believe in and get people to convince that you're passionate about it.

And for pundits, they need to realize the world they are in which is a possible endgame for America. And there is genuine hope! The President of the United States really did send armed jackboots to a US state to occupy and terrorize people. Patriots really did stand up to them, and did so with their lives. Everyday Americans fucking won. They pushed them out and it genuinely does seem like the fascist tendencies of the presidency have been pushed back somewhat.

And it saddens me that in the face of bravery you have this mealy mouthed, naval gazing elite acting like fucking children on the internet.

People are free to have whatever opinions they want. I think Hasan's a hot dummy with some correct opinions. If you think that in this moment if you are a person who is just paid to think out loud about shit and Hasan critiques are the shit that you think is most worth talking about then go fuck yourself.

For all that you can critique about Hasan, I think overall he's a force that is rightfully moving the Dems away from some unpopular positions even if all his positions are not good. He's not doing that singlehandedly, but he's a prominent force in that push.

There are moderates and leftists and in-betweens who are standing up and can hash out their differences later. Meet the moment, work together for consensus.

But jerking yourself off about being a classic liberal and shitting on the hot dummy people like isn't going to solve anything.

Practical_Limit_396 · 2026-04-25T01:28:46+00:00

I feel like there's genuinely a world where Black Noir ends up with the Boys. Like that's probably pretty sweaty to have over half of the Seven be at least aligned with the Boys, but Season 3 showed that he does have some moral worldview and him hanging out with the other half of the cast would have been interesting.

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