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Hannah Jacobs, a New York City mother of a teen with intellectual disability, who has spent years actively working to report offensive Facebook pages said she continues to find content on the social network each day that she considers to be problematic. She’s flagged pages with names like “I Am Retarded,” “I Hate Fat People in Wheelchairs” and one called “Retards in Cages” which remained on Facebook as of Monday with a tag indicating that it’s “controversial humor.

A lot of the time when you tell someone that you’re bisexual, they ask for your credentials. They ask how many men have you dated? How many women have you dated? Which one do you prefer? Which one have you had more sex with? These are incredibly personal questions that you wouldn’t ask a straight or gay person, but bisexuality has “less validity” so we get asked all these stupid, intimate questions. And if you don’t want to answer then someone will make assumptions about you but if you do answer, and the fact is out of the three people you fucked two of them are one gender and one of them is the other then people will decide whether you are gay or straight, they’ll make the decision for you.

Compulsory able-bodiedness is not only central to the narrative of Avatar, but was also a key part of its production. Although there is not a single frame in which Jake Sully’s human body walks, an ambulatory actor (Worthington) was nevertheless cast. To provide the appearance of a paraplegic’s atrophied legs, director James Cameron commissioned the production of prosthetic legs for Worthington, and post-production, digitally edited out any trace of the actor’s actual legs. The special effects team, Legendary Effects, created these prosthetic legs by casting the legs of an actual paraplegic man.

Ten rape prevention tips:

1. Don’t put drugs in women’s drinks.

2. When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone.

3. If you pull over to help a woman whose car has broken down, remember not to rape her.

4. If you are in an elevator and a woman gets in, don’t rape her.

5. When you encounter a woman who is asleep, the safest course of action is to not rape her.

6. Never creep into a woman’s home through an unlocked door or window, or spring out at her from between parked cars, or rape her.

7. Remember, people go to the laundry room to do their laundry. Do not attempt to molest someone who is alone in a laundry room.

8. Use the Buddy System! If it is inconvenient for you to stop yourself from raping women, ask a trusted friend to accompany you at all times.

9. Carry a rape whistle. If you find that you are about to rape someone, blow the whistle until someone comes to stop you.

10. Don’t forget: Honesty is the best policy. When asking a woman out on a date, don’t pretend that you are interested in her as a person; tell her straight up that you expect to be raping her later. If you don’t communicate your intentions, the woman may take it as a sign that you do not plan to rape her.

If Voyager attempted to make a break with the patriarchal tendencies of Trek, those tendencies have undergone a massive retrenchment between Enterprise and the Abrams version. Indeed, the reboot is a bland rip-off of one of Voyager’s greatest episodes, the two-parter “Year of Hell.” In it, a time-traveling villain, Annorax, destroys entire timelines and worlds to restore the life of his wife, just as Eric Bana’s grimacing and tepid villain does here (though it happens with much greater complexity and pathos in the Voyager version). There is a profoundly feminist moment in “Year of Hell” in which Janeway observes, as she thwarts Annorax’s efforts to obliterate her ship and crew, “He’s trying to erase us from history.” This line has a multi-leveled resonance, especially for Trek, speaking for the erased peoples of the world, other races, women, sexual minorities. But no such line, and certainly no such resonance, resounds within the Abrams reboot.