@nutbastard: You keep saying rational as if I'm just some flighty emotional woman being completely unreasonable because I won't kowtow to your opinion. It's not "rational" or "objective" to champion the popular response with little thought to real social consequences (because addressing them would be inconvenient for…
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@chorx: Brave thing to say, watch everyone jump on you and act like you're a thought Nazi just because you think that "OK"ing virtual child porn could ultimately hurt real children. Apparently, the only opinions you're allowed on Kotaku are "FREE SPEECH, MAN! 'Cause if they take one shred of free speech from us, it's…
@nutbastard: But you're still not acknowledging that providing these materials, consequence-free, could contribute to a damning sense of normalcy that could culturally contribute to the hypersexualization of children, which WOULD cause real life problems. We already have thongs for children under the age of ten, Bratz…
@Deaf Mute: Just because sexual violence towards women happened before porn doesn't mean that porn isn't contributing to the problem. I'm merely asking that a line be drawn in the sand—I never said "ban rape porn". But where does it end? Why am I the monster, here, for not wanting to contribute to a sense of normalcy…
@nutbastard: People can be aroused by virtually everything without being devoid of morals, but if you're sexually attracted to children, yes you are a waste to society, devoid of morals, and should be put down like a rabid dog.
@Gamal: Oh I see what you did there. How clever *eye roll*.
@Deaf Mute: It may not seem to directly contribute, but how can you say it doesn't contribute to our society's loose views on sexual violence towards women? It makes it seem like "no big deal".
@Rutty14: You're right, you know, message received loud and clear Kotaku: it's totally acceptable to contribute to a culture that focuses on violence and hypersexualization of children to fulfill sexual desire, no matter what social consequences there might be. I'll remember to leave my sense of decency at the front…
@nutbastard: Emotional? What, because I'm a woman, if I object to popular opinion somehow I'm emotional?
@Stoli: I will agree that murder is terrible, but again I feel it's all about context. And no, murder is not worse than any sex crime. You can't tell me it is until you've had to live with the trauma and pain of being sexually assaulted, especially if you were a child when it happened. Murder creates a corpse. Sexual…
@nutbastard: Wait, I'm the only one in this thread who's against the popular train of thought, and I'M the one not being objective...?
Leave it to Kotaku-ites to defend child pornography in its virtual form.
This is why I try to get all my kicks at Christmas, when my SO will let me go hog wild in Sephora for my Christmas present. I don't wear enough foundation or powder to go through a new bottle or compact in a year, so I pick that up then. Then I buy mascara, and some frivolous items. Still costs a couple hundred bucks.…
@bethinwonderland: Then you would love the Dior mascara I have. Whenever I put it on the whole bathroom smells like roses for hours.
Of course Hollywood doesn't have roles for black women. They're all busy being snapped up by the likes of Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy.
@kljwriter: Acquitted of the second, maybe, but not the first. He paid that one off, right? Funny how paying someone off to not face court is seen as the actions of an innocent man.
@UGAdawg: Pretty hard to pin charges when victims are unwilling to come forward due to greed, shame, or intimidation. All tactics that MJ's crew aggressively used.
@LivingVicariouslyThroughMyself: Oh wait, just remembered. What about the victim that has come forward, name and face to the press, to admit that MJ molested him and his mom, MJ's former maid Bianca Francia, took the money and ran? I suppose he's a big liar like the rest of them, even without financial incentive?
@LivingVicariouslyThroughMyself: Save it. You sound like a TMZ junkie.