I think that a man might want to claim to be transgender not because he thinks that a women’s facility is “more comfortable,” but rather that it would bee safer than a man’s prison. I am a slightly built man and yeah, I would feel more safe in a women’s prison.

This is very concerning. As someone who works with formerly incarcerated women, I am very concerned for the safety and wellbeing of female inmates, the majority of whom are trauma survivors. There have already been problems with housing trans identified males in women’s facilities in the U.K. and US- women being…

Honestly I’m kinda torn down the middle on this article. I think doing a friendly favor for a former partner is no big deal. But then some of the wording used here is........

can’t imagine why the relationship didn’t work out >_>

“Unpenalized”? Yes.

Putting morality and ethics aside: prostitution is still illegal mostly everywhere in the US. Sure, it is still widespread, but it’s still illegal. The bill is designed to put the squeeze on sex traffickers, but nobody was every pretending it left room to protect other sex workers. I mean, for one thing, they don’t…

I’m sorry, but I feel like I need to be a voice of reason here. The sex work industry is complex, and not monolithic. Whereas some sex workers are more empowered and have the resources to be self-employed (which often, but not always coincides with class/race-based privilege), others are incredibly vulnerable to…

Asshole pedantry warning... 

Rocky Horror has you covered.

The real problem here is that in the original Weird Science, despite the two boys creating their “dream girl,” the girl actually ends up being the one with all the power in the relationship. That dynamic, with the roles reversed would be....problematic, to say the least.

Ahh, my favourite movie as a preteen: Making Mr Right, starring Anne Magnuson and John Malkovich. Except she was a cool, smart scientist, not a nerdy loser, and he was gentle and lovely. I loved this movie, and it’s exactly what you described.

Raise the voting age to 21 so this kid can not do more damage?

Gawker (and Trotter, especially) is not journalism. To try to classify a blog post as either ‘article’ or ‘opinion’ is to miss the point of blogs - to create a space where the author can eschew journalistic integrity in order to editorialize, in “real time”.

Craig Gurian, the executive director of the Anti-Discrimination Center in New York, offered a blunt (and perhaps obdurate) defense of New York City’s public accommodations law: “To the extent that there are workplaces or public accommodations that have inappropriate behavior, the solution is to fix those workplaces or…

//Until we get woke judges (i.e. not white men), laws intended to protect the oppressed will consistently be used by those in power to maintain the status quo.//

So judges who don’t follow the law?

I mean, assaulting a police officer is like up to 5 years for Israeli citizens (with other possible charges for Palestinians) and up to 25 years in New York (http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/city_index/215849-city-index-the-penalties-for-assaulting-a-cop). Plain assault is up to a year in the US. So…

If by “history of standing up to the occupation” you mean “planting bombs in the Sbarro pizza parlor so as to murder as many Jewish children as possible” then yes the Tamimi clan sure does have a history.

No, man. It’s even worse than that. It’s not the helicopter that killed ‘em it’s the safety gear. Those seatbelts are known killers and we’ve gotta stomp ‘em out, I tell ya!

Agreed; and not having doors seems like it would be a benefit in such a scenario, so long as you don’t get yourself pulled into the blades.

It most likely to be something of this type.