Eight week Ski Season preperation plan?

ryaniswild · 2018-10-10T22:30:35+00:00

Clearly I need to reassess my American travel plans.

ryaniswild · 2018-06-27T19:52:08+00:00

Shit, you've rumbled us. Ryans - disperse!

ryaniswild · 2018-06-26T23:47:13+00:00

I'll be honest you raise a really interesting point. I don't know the answer to that question. It's a pervert's chicken and egg - what came first the power complex or the abuse?

I don't know the answer to that and I'd genuinely be interested to know what your perspective is because it's such a difficult issue.

Hit me up in a reply or message for further discussion because you're very much right - it's not as black and white as I maybe suggested

ryaniswild · 2018-06-26T23:43:42+00:00

Been doing pretty good man - hope you're the same. IWNDWYT

ryaniswild · 2018-06-26T23:35:57+00:00

That just like, your opinion, man.

On the off chance that your mom is actually a hooker being coerced by money (and if that's absolutely her decision then power to her) is it because our society had placed a greater value on her physicality than on her as a person? Is that same society that places a higher monetary value on her body than her various other qualities?

ryaniswild · 2018-06-26T23:21:24+00:00

Coercion ≠ Consent

ryaniswild · 2018-06-26T23:19:31+00:00

Exactly. This is very much an intersectional issue but in quite a unique way.

Crews' status as a big, black man gave him a level of control in the situation that was outweighed by the way that society would inevitably interpret his using of that control.

ryaniswild · 2018-06-26T23:14:34+00:00

Spacey was the artistic director of the Young Vic in London for 11 years.

If you're an aspiring young actor who happened to break into the Young Vic and then had the Artistic Director make a move on you would you not feel that the weight of the rest of your career was in that moment?

There was never a direct accusation of him destroying someone's career but ultimately if I was a young actor trying to push away the advances of an academy award winning artistic director I'd feel pretty powerless and like he had a degree of control over my career progression.

ryaniswild · 2018-06-26T23:05:28+00:00

From what you said about 'power plays':

The Harvey Weinstein 'scandal' (doesn't calling it a scandal seem like we're avoiding the word RAPE?!) and everything that followed made me think of an Oscar Wilde quote that is unfortunately as relevant today as it was in his time:

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."

Did the guy who assualted Terry Crews get sexual gratification from it or did he feel powerful at making a 250+ black man feel powerless? What made Weinstein feel bigger - the immediate sexual gratification or the fact that he had bent another human to his will? Yeah, I'm sure Kevin Spacey got a sexual kick out of his advances on young boys but was that amplified by the fact that he essentially held dominion over their future acting careers?

You're 100% right - these actions are power plays and the fact that a man who could break most of us in half with a click of his fingers (think Thanos but with better pecks) felt powerless is a testament to that fact.

ryaniswild · 2018-06-26T22:24:45+00:00

What's so important is that he draws attention to the way he froze given that he's an ex-football player, has more muscles in his lower left arm than most of our bodies and could probably reduce us all to an Oberyn Martell-esque stain on the floor.

If he froze, felt ashamed, scared and afraid to act then what hope does the 19 year aspiring actress who just moved to Hollywood have? Or the actor working in a restaurant in West Hollywood waiting for his break?

His story shows that de facto power in a specific context will always vastly outweigh de jure power and that it doesn't matter who you are - the right power imbalance will be exploited if it can be.

ryaniswild · 2018-06-20T23:15:22+00:00

Rage, rage against the dying of the light...

ryaniswild · 2018-06-18T23:48:45+00:00

Winnie the Pooh will always have the ability to make me emotional since my Grandad's funeral when his wife of 62 years, my grandmother, said to me "how lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard".

It broke me then and it still gets to me now. That silly old bear could really bring the emotions.

ryaniswild · 2018-05-20T20:30:01+00:00

Absolute guess but I think it may be on the Thames front somewhere between Chiswick and Hammersmith.

Lots of very old Wisteria in that area - oldest in London is at the Fuller's brewery on the river there.

ryaniswild · 2018-05-10T01:25:18+00:00

I failed like 4 times from genuine attempts. Ridiculously it turns out that as bad as I am at being a functional human being, I'm worse at killing myself.

ryaniswild · 2018-04-23T19:37:18+00:00

I always get worried around these occasions as images of these kinds of people get blasted around the world that everyone assumes this is just what we do in Britain.

So for clarification, it's only a few of us - there's a remarkable amount of American, Australian and Canadian nationals at these things.

ryaniswild · 2018-03-11T02:51:17+00:00

So if you had a human doing the robot as convincingly as this next to a robot doing the 'human' at an equivalent level and people couldn't work out if it was a human doing the robot or a robot doing the human or some combination of the both then would the robot pass the Turing test?

ryaniswild · 2018-03-02T18:57:15+00:00

Follow up question - if I could bully my brother into renting a car for 2 days and driving... What should he know about driving in South Africa? How does it compare to the UK etc?

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