No, THIS argument is extremely dumb and has been disproved many times. What you are saying is that women provoke their rapes <i>merely by existing</i>. Because "slutty" is subjective, because "bad neighborhood" is subjective (not to mention, sometimes you HAVE to be in those neighborhoods because, I don't know, YOU…

Yeah, along with a heading that she's "linked to terrorists". That's just about what I'd expect from Victoria Jackson.

It's just a piece of face-palm inducing crap. Of all the women in the world to accuse of being in the thrall of fundamentalist ANYTHING, you pick a politico who kept her own last name and works as a Hillary staffer?

Also, considering she married a Jewish dude, I'm thinking she may not adhere to the most conservative, fundamentalist version of Islam.

I totally agree! I took an intro course in undergrad years ago (I believe it was called Critical Thinking 101, and I believe it was in the Philosophy department – my BA is in Rhetoric so it was a required course), and what a solid grounding it has provided for life. A similar course at an appropriate level in grade 10…

I would really love it if we added a course in logic to the high school curriculum. (I say this as a high school teacher.) The ability to reason seems to be on the endangered species list.

My dad paid out of pocket to get my sister and I vaccinated. (This was when insurance wasn't paying for it yet) I was 12 and he was like f* this you ARE getting vaccinated. Thank you wonderful father for paying $1000s for me to not get cancer.

That's a fine theory, but wholly inapplicable considering the cost of today's healthcare. How is the average working American supposed to afford a surgery, expensive diagnostics, or ongoing perscription drugs, which can all easily cost thousands of dollars? Most simply can't. The "every man for himself" schtick has…

Even if it happened the way he said it happened; he still pursued a child through the streets at night with a gun. There's no version of this where Zimmerman isn't a shit.

The law says that someone who is in fear of death or serious injury is allowed to defend himself, even with lethal force. What exactly is the problem with this? How else would you formulate that law?

It's the irrational, emotionally based conflation of two entirely separate things (another logical fallacy typical of Jezebel writers and commenters). I'm defending Zimmerman's right to self defense, not any other part of his character. Furthermore, an allegation is hardly a conviction.

"Running away is a perfectly fine response. Attacking the person who is following you is not.

I'm puzzled by people like you who have devoted so much time to defending a man who killed a 17 year old human being. I guess I can understand how you've concluded that GZ acted in self-defense that night (I don't agree with that premise), but why do you feel the need to defend someone who clearly made some critical…

No I'm saying that when a cop asks you what you're up to, you know that it is because he/she is suspicious of something you're doing and is not going to harm you unless you act aggressively, in which case the instinct would be to be nice and calm vs. when a random dude follows you it could be for a variety of reasons,…

No one knows that for sure, so stop speculating. What we DO know is that a 17 year old kid armed with candy and a soft drink is dead and a a grown man with a gun is alive. How hard is this for people to understand?

I'm just gonna put this right here:

"If Zimmerman (or anyone else, for that matter) believed themselves to have rightfully acted in self defense, why would they necessarily have to exhibit later remorse?"

First off in the beginning of the 911 call, the first thing Zimmerman mentions is that there have been a string of burglaries, what does Trayvon Martin have to do with that? Also in the 911 call he does not say Trayvon is looking into windows.

Lie 1: He said Martin grabbed his gun. Martin's DNA was not on his gun

Have you considered: Zimmerman's past, that he stalked Trayvon Martin because he was racial profiling him based on burglaries that happened in the neighborhood (did you listen to the 911 call?), that if he would have been a "good guy" that Trayvon would be alive today, that Trayvon had every right to be in the…