@crocuta: Oh right. So only the kidnapping-sex torture of the President, then?

I CALL DIBS ON SKARSGARD!

@la.donna.pietra: Talk about burying the lede!

@crocuta: Yes! The justice system should focus only on capital murder cases and ignore everything else, because, you know, it could have been worse.

"It could be worse" is just about my least favorite typical male dismissal EVER (right after "It was a joke/where's your sense of humor?")

@ritualtheory: Oh Gawd. I mean...we don't have any evidence of that but...yikes. Horrifying if it's true.

@B.A.P.: So true!

Jodie Foster is now dead to me. What a shame.

On the other hand, these make an advice columnist's job extremely easy. Just write You're a self-centered douchebag and call it a day. Think of all the time saved.

@lafleur: Yeah, me too. And I don't think that I do that simply because I'm a feminist and this isn't my lifestyle. I think most people would watch it with the same horrified fascination because the way those people live is so outside of our mainstream culture. I sincerely doubt that the Duggars have made a lot of…

I dislike these shows because I hate religious fundamentalism and the way it treats women as second-class breeding machines.

Yes, please.

@The_same_SZ: ::eyeroll:: You are too willfully ignorant to argue with any longer. Learn how to construct an argument that's based on fact instead of your own privilege and ignorance and I'll see you in another thread sometime.

@The_same_SZ: Iran is much the same way, you can leave if you want, you can fight to change the law, or you can accept the known punishment for breaking the law of their land.

@The_same_SZ: I don't think any sex between consenting adults should be criminalized. That's a basic human right, IMO. I'm not going to defend a human rights violation simply because it's the law of a particular country.

@Hannapdx: Oy vey. That's a seriously disturbed woman.

@vamusical: Presumably because he has legal eagle Ken Cucinelli to explain it to him.

@Elizabeth Powers Moore: Well, someone has to give Texas a run for their money.

@FlowbeeBryant: Iran is creating a totally false analogy here to cover its own ass.

@amowls: Exactly. Iran's conflating two very different cases—one in which a wrong was committed and one in which no wrong was committed—in order to defend its own indefensible action.