Yeah that's the elephant in the room with "Legally consenting adults" and prostitution. People quickly and easily compartmentalize it outside of historical events, culture, institutionalized racism and misogyny etc... It's all interconnected.

I am a an educated caregiver for mentally disabled people, my title is "Pedagogue", it is a mostly Scandinavian concept and our areas of expertise has been shifting a bit over the last 30 years, but I am qualified for taking care of children, disabled people, and socially maladjusted (codeword for junkies, alcoholics…

I almost hit recommend, until I got to your last paragraph. I'm also invisibly disabled, although I have been in sexual relationships. The nature of that disability makes it difficult for me to make that connection, and it's led to depression, social anxiety and the conclusion that I just shouldn't try to engage…

Overall, a good article, but ugh, that whole disability/prostitution thing.

You are all adults. You do not need me to tell you how to feel about this.

Jez is better than the NYT. We don't write trend explainers about fleek.

I know driving on LSD was crazy stupid, but I never joined a jihadist group.

Having once been an extremely dumb teenage girl, I feel terrible for these three kids. This is not a game.

Wat.

That seemed an odd reaction to me as well. "I can't believe the government hadn't racially profiled us to such an extent that they were maintaining the level of constant surveillance on us necessary to prevent this from happening!"

The parents of the girls have expressed "incredulity" today that Begum's public exchange with Mahmood on Twitter did not send up red-flags for the London authorities to get involved, given all their surveillance of the Arab community.

If Mimi-Rose has good health insurance (which, if she's less than 26, she could still be on her parent's plan), her abortion could have been super cheap. An abortion would cost me $20.

If she can afford to live in a swanky loft space (by whatever means), $350-$500 for an abortion is probably not a big deal to her. Thus, not a discussion point?

So....I think what she said wasn't really the best thing ever. Inappropriate, maybe a little tone deaf? But I will agree with you that the discourse about it here at Jez is crude and extremely unproductive. Almost gleeful in its outrage and malice. Also, please see: the abusive comments hurled at you in this thread.

I would say if Beyonce wants to get up on the stage, shake it, and then say she's a feminist, then I agree that she is. She should make no apologies for doing what she wants, dancing how she pleases, wearing whatever she likes. That IS feminism. No one should have the feminism card revoked because some idiots don't…

I don't think at any point she called out POC or gays for not being good ally's. All she said was that women need their help in this fight, just like they needed(and still need, because the fight is ongoing) the help of women in their fight.

Re: Dev Patel (who is absolutely an attractive person), I'm tired of the whole "she's too god for him" thing. It's no better than the reverse. See also: Amal Clooney, Emma Watson, Rihanna, etc. ad infinitum. All perfectly lovely women, but why does it have to be a contest? If they see something in George, Harry, Leo,…

[don't kill me for taking this out of the greys]

This stuff just blows my mind.

As I've said: So what if someone means well but doesn't quite articulate her idea as well as she might when the entire world is watching? Gotta find outrage somewhere.