“The three people killed on the bridge are men!”

Also, if the person whose consent is being questioned isn’t sure if they consented.....THEY DIDN’T FUCKING CONSENT.

While I accept your points about how the victim’s statement about being unsure it was non-consensual would in fact make the case substantially more difficult, I want to push back somewhat.

Yeah. I read this as more of an “Oh, my god, how horrifying; that poor woman” story rather than a “Jesus, can’t the cops/prosecutors do anything right?” story. The thing about the woman not being sure whether it was consensual is what breaks my heart. My guess is that she felt like she was complicit in the act because…

Hot take: the sex isn’t consensual if it’s being extorted from you because your single most vital personal possession is being held hostage.

I just want to run around screaming and grabbing people sometimes

Exactly. If you’re going to be essentially living on one income anyway and want to go back to work eventually, it pays to stay in the game.

Exactly. In some fields, particularly academia, you cannot take a break for children. You’ll fall too far behind compared to your peers. It is brutal and unfair to women that all of these intense early career demands happen at the same time as starting families when childcare burdens can be financially crippling. But…

Exactly. The long term earning potential matters significantly

I’ve read that the 5+ year gap on a resume can wreck future earnings too though. So it becomes a question of how exactly you want to be screwed.

Those are the rules of England, these things happen. You often can’t get in to Canada if you’ve ever had a DUI. Different countries have different laws.

Black women who dare to wear their hair natural are told by their MOTHERS to “go do your hair” and “no man will ever want you.”
They earn their way to college and earn a national basketball championship and they’re called “Nappy Headed H**s” on national radio (and people are more horrified that their hair was insulted…

This issue is obviously too complex for you, but go back and read the paragraph that says the commercial attempted to equate white women’s hair “issues” (should I go blonde or stay a redhead?) with the tangled socio-sexual-economic-political issues that black women have had and continue to have heaped on our heads…

Sundial Brands built their business on the patronage of Black women, yet they have been discontinuing some products and changing the formulas of others. Now that their products are no longer effective on Black women’s 4b or 4c textured hair, that is the very definition of “forgetting their base.”

Alas, your assumptions are incorrect. As others have pointed out, the formulas have changed and are no longer as effective. Customers have been raising this issue for some time now.

Her first day probably went a lot like this.

“When America sends its people, they’re not sending their best. ...”

This has been a trend with companies like Shea Moisture (see: Carol’s Daughter). I am all about expanding a brand, but it’s clear whoever is in charge of marketing is not remembering the history of the brand or recognizing the key demographic that has been loyal to the brand. Not to mention, they are rumored to be…

So his last stint in jail is what did him in. He probably would have needed some sort of exception or waiver. Showing up with a note from a parole officer while good proactive thinking wasn’t going to cut it. His manager should have been on top of this, especially if his client is big enough to book foreign gigs.

Not if he was already a felon when they caught him in possession.