Fair enough. I was mostly finding gallows humor in the whole thing... like, here they get so excited at corp headquarters, like "this American hero name dropped us, let's get on that!" and then the story unfolds so that the bad guys are ALSO name checking McDonalds. It's theatre macabre. Mostly I just can't deal with…

Um, yeah. But they are trying to capitalize on a horrific story by aligning with the hero, since their name was so prominent in his narrative, but now, due to the police report, their name is ALSO prominently aligned with the sadistic monsters. So, might be better PR just to ignore the story entirely, eh?

Done.

So, McDonalds: saw your tweet about being in touch with the hero who invoked your name (and deliciously bad for you food) in his 911 call and interviews. Do you REALLY want to touch this story knowing the horrible man who perpetrated this crime was ALSO heading to your fine establishment? I might wanna steer clear of…

I know you are right, and that's part of what's disappointing. I have been reading Jezebel for about a year now and it's been SO enlightening to hear so many viewpoints on feminism and rape culture and to realize how much I'd missed about (AND simultaneously bought into) how women's bodies are put up for public…

Yeah, I should have clarified. I am not interested in buying ANY celebrity rag because of how they actively contribute to rape culture by putting women's bodies (almost exclusively) up for consumption, speculation, ridicule, etc. It's my new resolution.

Anyone who takes a cursory glance at usmagazine.com knows that they are completely in bed with the Kardashians. Literally there is not one single day that does not feature a story about them on the homepage, mostly as inconsequential as "Kim suntans in Greece!" "Kourtney looks amazing with a new haircut!" I wonder how…

She looks like a muppet to me. Smoking body, but in the face—- Jim Henson-ish. I find the same thing with Kendra Wilkinson. But I know I am in the minority.

I am four years your senior, so mostly the same generation, and I laughed my ASS off at the Exorcist. I am sorry, that scene where the little girl is wheedling the priest to take off the shackles, and he goes, "well, if you're the devil, why don't you just do it yourself," and the little girl's head spins around and…

Okay, so we should back off on global feminism because another culture says it's okay to subjugate women, because that's just another culture. We should back off rather than trying to raise all boats with our beliefs that women are powerful. We should stay silent and take it as a "cultural" thing that because of…

True, true, true. But we are so good at deciding right for others, it's just a shame it's not about those things that would really equalize a society: assuring ALL members have an equal voice, starting with women. Then again, the Republicans who think it's our god-given right to "bring democracy and light to the Arab…

I guess until we are oil-independent, America will never speak up about Saudi Arabia having blatant human rights violations —- or calling "conservative" what it really is: institutionalized, governmentally-approved, virulent misogyny.

This was an amazing response, and just the kind of one I expected from you (weirdly, as I don't know you- I just thought it would be this thoughtful). I find myself at once repelled and fascinated by religion- more repelled than fascinated for sure, but fascinated nonetheless. I have studied the Bible myself... no…

I feel so complicit and ugly in my unmitigated interest in all the chronicles of this girl's breakdown. I hope this story has some kind of happy ending wherein SOMEONE that cares about and knows her gets her help, but I fear instead I'm watching a slow slide to death. At what point should we stop covering this in the…

You are exactly right! There ARE many women who would easily handle a gay man having his sex elsewhere but being a "family man" at home. I could maybe do it, and from what my mother (desperate for the grandkid we both want) tells me there is a website for that matching. But it is all, as you alluded to, predicated on…

You know, I get that. As a single 38 year old woman who wants to have a child and who has amazing gay male friends with whom I am closer than many of my exes or female friends, I have thought about "alternative arrangements" for relationships and parenthood. I was merely attempting humor with my original post, which I…

May I ask you a genuinely interested question as an agnostic who frankly thinks religion (not faith in God, but organized religion which cleaves to old social documents as divine law) is an evil force: why did you study that? Are you an historical scholar or do you honestly believe the Bible is holy and passed down…

He is going to make some unlucky woman very unhappy.

I don't think you are going to burn in West Coast liberal hell because superficially I think the argument makes sense. But the fact of the matter is, we don't try kids under like 15 because we realize that they are still struggling to truly understand actions have consequences. Their judgment is extremely nascent at…

Just think! These kids could make their video game scenarios happen in real life. We know from behavioral studies that young kids are often unable to grasp difficult adult concepts like actions-consequence and life-death, but who cares? How cool is that!