I think there is much more important and interesting work she could be doing.

I get that this is an important point, but when do we start giving a shit before they are endangered? And I know chickens aren't even close to being at risk, but it's getting ridiculous to see us only care about animals once we fuck them over so much they are almost gone.

This. Also, from the time Binti Jua became a mother, she had been trained by zookeepers to hand them her child for medical care. When she carried the young boy to safety, the keepers believed she was exhibiting the results of her training; not instinct.

It’s actually frightening to me how completely callous people are about the life of a CHILD. I get that gorillas are endangered but good lord.. Valuing an animal’s life over that of a little boy seems sociopathic to me, and yet it's a common reaction to this event.

Mary-Grace, the arguments I have had on facebook about this gorilla shit. Animal obsessives are the craziest misanthropes I’ve ever encountered. I’ve had bozos literally telling me they would prefer the boy had died than Harambe.

Wait wait wait. Are you implying that we are all Hypocrites?

Duh, the real criminals here are the parents who dared to look away for a second. I’ve also been told by about a MILLION people on another thread that helicopter parents, not guns, are to blame for the UCLA student who killed their professor, then themselves. Don’t watch your kids close enough? Burn the witch! Watch…

While tragic, the loss of this gorilla, we also slaughter one million chickens per day, so we can shove cheap meat into our fat faces.

I’m so tired of this story in every single way.

I do like Eric Stonestreet, because he is an old and I am an old. And he’s a straight guy playing a gay guy, and he doesn’t seem to have to act like a super-straight-hetero male to prove he isn’t really gay. And he’s pretty funny.

Totally aside from custody, many men get violent because the mother’s time and attention is taken up with the baby, and they resent the loss of time and attention for themselves. I actually think that’s more common than custody-related abuse.

This guy’s lawyer says: “It’s very rare that someone is involved in a homicide case with someone they just had a baby with.”

Formerly trafficked sex workers? Absolutely. In the Nordic model it’s the pimps and johns who are arrested, so many who escape the industry have voiced support for it. Maybe they’d think differently if they had had direct experience with the model, as it seems to cause a complicated set of unintended consequences, but…

Ideally all sex workers would be autonomous human beings, operating their own business how they please. But that’s just not how it plays out a lot of the time. Women are sold, coerced, beaten and drugged into sexual compliance all the time. And my feeling is that allowing men to pay for sex gives them the idea that…

Hardly that long ago. And it’s still very common in some circles. Get out of your bubble.

Everything he’s saying applies to sex workers who are trafficked, coerced, or forced by desperate circumstances into an industry they don’t really want to be in, but it doesn’t apply to sex workers who are working safely, legally and by choice. To be fair to President Carter, there are more in the first category.…

Agree. I feel like calling Carter’s editorial “bad” and “awful” is a gross simplification of a complex issue. While I don’t necessarily agree with Jimmy, there are a fair amount of feminists and organizations that do.

And unfortunately if you look at countries with legalized sex work sex trafficking has not disappeared... it’s just easier to hide. There are more men who want to buy sex than there are women willing to sell sex, and there are awful people willing to take advantage of that.

I’ll admit that I agree with parts of what he’s saying. I don’t think it’s as cut and dry as legalization = great, everything’s fine now. I’m definitely not down with sex workers being punished in any way. It also really doesn’t sit well with me that legalizing sex work perpetuates the idea that women’s bodies are…

I don’t think we should insult people for carefully thought out opinion pieces that slightly differ from our own opinions. This is a complex issue.