I created a burner just so I can post this, but it won't post and whatever. I'm not ashamed.

Yes, well said - what he allegedly did was have sex and sleep in bed with a woman consensually and then was screwing her when she woke up in the morning, not wearing a condom (non-consensual = rape.) Oh & by the way, the woman worked for &/or had ties to the CIA. This appears to be a very difficult case to prove rape…

Ah yes, the Pottery Barn Rule. In which the people who broke a bunch of shit on purpose based on fanciful and erroneous notions of what would follow should now be trusted to fix the things they broke. Because surely they know how. They’ve demonstrated such an incredible mastery of anticipating the consequences of…

Well, Spain was a dictatorship/borderline totalitarian state until 1978. Franco embraced Fascism and National Catholicism which almost turned Spain into a theocracy in which divorce and abortion (and birth control obviously) were technically illegal. I remember learning that during that time women were sometimes forced…

I want to say is that not all Roma practice early marriage, it is actually dying and falling by a lot. It is no different say all Jewish practice this etc. When this was announced the leader of all the Roma groups in Spain agreed to the rule change because and as quote “we are marrying later. This law is a step…

Thank you for this important interview. It shows that poverty is almost always the reason for human rights violations. A person who is hungry does a lot of things they would never dream of doing, if they were fed.

Thank you. We can support rape survivors while also not rushing to judgment and maintaining fair and balanced legal systems. One doesn’t nullify the other.

We always seem to present things as “innocent until proven guilty” vs “believe the victim”, but that’s really a false dichotomy. I have no problem with our judicial system setting a high bar for conviction, even in cases of rape/sexual assault. What I have issue with is that so few reports are even taken seriously…

I live in Portugal and a state-funded programme like that has been in place since 2001 I think, give or take a year. It hasn’t of course been consensual. Your welfare queens narrative has its equivalent in Roma families getting huge incomes, perfectly showcasing the inherent racism of right-wing politics. And, as I…

No when men come onto an article about women’s issues to derail it by complaining that men have problems too without every really backing it up with evidence or actually wanting to talk about solutions for this issues they get responded to in that way. It’s the same when commenters go to articles about police violence…

Really? I watch Al-Jazeera English and that's actually where I heard about migrant workers' deaths in Qatar. Granted they don't cover a lot of what's happening in Qatar, but I have seen them cover negative events in Qatar related to policy.

then you’re missing out on the best reporting in the business. the backstage shenanigans don’t take away from the fact that AJAM is, indeed, like “PBS on steroids.”

There’s quite a bit of elision and misinformation presented here. I truly don’t have the energy to dig into all of it, but let’s take on the scare-quoted oxybenzone and Vitamin A, for example. Retinyl palmitate, the natural form of Vitamin A that is used in sunscreens, has been proven safe by multiple rigorous,…

For my wife and I, the real silver silverware set engraved with my last initial. For when the Queen comes by, I suppose.

My four grandparents: