It’s a weird line to walk....understanding and giving regard to someone who does horrible things. Because when you do that, normally you find yourself maybe thinking “well this makes sense, I get it...it’s not so bad.” Except sex crimes are HORRIBLE and should never, ever be tolerated, EVER under any circumstance. A…

You can frame it as I see why you made that choice but it still sucks. People get empathy and sympathy mixed up. Sympathy is I feel bad for you because you feel bad. Empathy is I can see why that choice was made and why you feel that way. You can feel for them or not. Having empathy for someone doesn’t mean you…

I’ve worked for a while with sex offenders. And the ones I spent time with had horrifying childhoods. Like grew up squatting in crack dens, prostituted out starting at the age of 3 until 18 for drug money, forced to be in child porno...beaten, neglected....like the most awful, tragic, tortuous things you can possibly…

Empathy is not the same thing as approval.

Rachel Dolezal joke obligatory.

You silly duck, everybody knows that 30 is “basically a corpse”.

Dude, I LIKE her. I want her to do great. I do not think that being cast as an older woman is doing her any favors.

Speaking of OITNB, the actresses who play Daya and her mother are a year apart in age. So, I guess good on them for casting a 30 something to play (presumably) a 18-20 year old.

Yup, you stick with the people who get you Oscars.

...34 is “middle-aged”? I hope you drop your next donut.

If you were her, would you really turn them down? Look how well Silver Linings Playbook turned out for her. I don’t fault her for taking the jobs at all.

Curve this homie like a bad toss

The fact that you put those words in quotes tells me that you think you don’t know anyone who’s engaged in sex work. You’re probably wrong. Here, go learn something: http://titsandsass.com/

And never once acknowledges that they’re PEOPLE. Yup, sounds about right.

I will “exalt sex workers” all day long, if you mean “allow that some of them are human beings with free will who’ve chosen sex work.” As for people who do not choose sex work, but enter it through trafficking, coercion or economic hardship, I’ll put this part of the letter in again, in case you missed it:

Ugh, this is awful.

YES. Ok, thank you. I was soooooo bummed out by Laverne’s response because I thought she would have at least said something to back Amandla up.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A SUPERNATURAL WOMAN NOT USING HER POWERS TO HELP ANYONE BUT HERSELF

They were children. Actual children in an adult situation they could not possibly understand or be expected to know how to handle correctly.

ain’t that the fucking truth.