That's because it is — or worse than pearl-clutching, really. On the rare occasion when white people aren't tearing down PoC celebrities, there is always a PoC waiting in the wings to take up the role.

Rousey was already in the Body issue mag in 2012. She has an impressive physique.

My brother, who is much more knowledgeable about the game than I, told me ahead of time that Brazil would feel the loss of Silva much more than Neymar.

Now 5-0. I'd feel sorry for Brazil, but they've brought this upon themselves.

You're a complete joke. Anyone who was on Jez at the time of the Boston bombing remembers what an ass you made of yourself in those threads. One need not debate the court jester.

I see you took a break from bashing Muslims to grace us with your presence. Welcome back.

She came out as bi, but the Gold-star crowd has decided that bisexuality doesn't really exist, and is instead the new celebrity closet.

When I was a young-un I spent many nights reading Ursula K Le Guin and Anne McCaffrey until the dawn by flashlight. Classmates did similar things with their various fiction novels of choice, played video games, or called their peeps of choice. For some reason none of us felt the need to call it anything other than…

Those are great. I love the 3D Text ones as well.

Oh — a link to the racist, transphobic blog that praised DGR and its creepy cult-leader Derrick Jensen. I was wondering if that might pop up from the anti-sex work crowd at any point!

If you're a woman who enjoys pornography, it's clearly because you've been brainwashed by the patriarchy into accepting an industry that is degrading and cruel to women. Yet if you're in the anti-sex work crowd, your convictions can't POSSIBLY be a result of the slut-shaming and patriarchal ownership of the female…

Oh — that's easy. Most women of relative privilege in the sex-work industry have jobs higher on the accepted "tier" — and they are far more likely to have their voice heard in media and elsewhere. Meanwhile, the anti-sex work crowd, whose center of mass rests almost entirely on the side of class-privilege and …

"Degrading acts like anal sex"

It would be nice if the anti-sex work crowd would simply be honest like every other Fundamentalist strain on the planet and admit that their disdain for sex-workers is based on a global penchant to slut-shame and maintain the class distinction between themselves and those in sex work.

I was gonna say, most of her piece rings true, but the hierarchy seems not to mesh with what I remember. Generally (without looking at lifestyle and "flavor" considerations), it went

My personal take is sex work is empowering to the women who choose to go into the profession willingly. I doubt it's very empowering to the women and men who are forced into it either by threats from abusers/pimps or because of dire need.

Has anyone played the new Wasteland sequel? Is it any good?

Are you joking? It almost certainly didn't change the result, but Germany got pretty much every 50/50 call in their game against the US. Even Michael Ballack called out some of the dubious foul calls given to Germany.

Cheers, and enjoy the upcoming 4th of July week! But beware of rabbits...

What? Aren't shootouts basically coin-flips? Is the Chilean keeper much better than Brazil's or something?