i love this. the title alone is going to make people SO angry. like the windsors are for some reason deserving of press/fame/fortune and how DARE you compare the kardashians to them!!!!!!!!

The problem with this blog is that this has never happened, ever, to anyone.

Easy: reduce the prison population.

I’m against the death penalty. For anyone, for any reason. No mental gymnastics required.

I see a difference in how Brock Turner and Wilkerson were treated versus how Kobe Bryant and Jameis Winston were treated. The judges in the case of Brock Turner and Wilkerson saw inherent value in them because of their race and socio-economic status, a bias that said these two men are valued because of their race and…

I really recommend listening to the episode of the Sword and Stone Podcast on the death penalty. They make a really good case as to why the death penalty is stupid (not inhumane, although I would personally call the way most of the executions are done borderline inhumane). It is much less expensive to just keep…

For me the cost isn’t an issue, I don’t mind paying higher taxes if my nation could align to all of my own priorities, because we certainly spend a lot of money on shit I don’t support already. But I remain steadfast that a nation doesn’t have the right to kill its citizens. I waver, and revenge is a sweet ass…

Of course the death penalty is more palatable when applied to someone like this, a clearly guilty multiple murderer. It unfortunately doesn't erase all the times the death penalty was wrongfully given.

As someone who dealt with abuse for a long time I am a bit exhausted of the comments describing in detail how horribly he is clearly abusing her, and pulling up a laundry list of terms associated with abuse to attach to this incident.

Oh okay then. But, the white rapist in this story is not an athlete AND was let off easy.

Are we really pretending there are no differences in sentencing white and black people? This has been studied and concluded extensively. No one considers the hardships on an unknown black boy or man. A white man convicted of rape is more likely to get a more lenient sentence than a black man convicted of rape. Facts.

Really?! That is the point...you had to give me WORLD FAMOUS athletes worth millions of dollars to their teams and at the time school. Wilkerson plays no sports Brock Turner was a swimmer. Banks was a star athlete with a future in football...yet he didn’t get the benefit that Wilkerson or Turner got (and he was…

two guys. maybe it’s hard to count from your high horse.

He would have Reservations.

the USA and its ally-in-syria Al Qaeda will show ‘em what’s right!

I’m a Black chick, a Trekkie, a writer, and a SF/fantasy nerd and I disagree. Whenever they remake a beloved character ‘cause it is a “brand” like Iron Man - I drop the series. It is insulting and lazy & the Marvel universe has gotten totes ridiculous.

Why. Are. You. LYING?

It sure is, for you:

I once met a Norwegian young woman who said that she enjoyed going to festivals, one cool thing about them was it is fun to “avoid the rapes.” I wondered if anything was lost in translation. I am male and her boyfriend was standing right next to us.

I wonder how the Far Right will try to pin this on the Syrian refugees. Everyone knows those people are huge fans of Swedish music festivals headlined by Mumford & Sons.