I think Norma Jeane was subsumed by her Monroe persona so early on that it’s hard to say if even she knew what she really wanted or expected professionally (or even personally, since the two were entwined). It’s always seemed to me that she never had the opportunity to fully develop a sense of herself, succumbing to…

I know my Queer sensibilities are going to love this. Monroe has a vulnerability that has never quite been captured by another actress in quite the same way. As much as someone hopes a film on her cracks the code, I don’t know if she’ll ever be fully knowable, and that’s why she’s endured. Especially within diva…

It’s funny* how they can throw a person into a drug den with criminals and be shocked with something horrible happens, but come in full body armor to a women’s rights march expecting them to start hurling Molotov cocktails...

“We’ve always done it this way,” lieutenant Mark Park told the AP.

To underscore this point, in Colorado over the summer a man got his car stuck, called 911 for help, was never suspected of a crime, never committed a crime, and yet ended up dead at the end of an unnecessarily tense 90 minute “confrontation,” riddled with bullets from police officers who apparently thought this…

Do you want to reduce the abysmally low reporting of rapes. Because this is how you reduce the abysmally low reporting of rapes.

“We’ve always done it this way.” is not the defense they think it is...

Let me fix this for you

She’s an addict.  Not a person with civil rights.  /s

“We’ve always done it this way... She was an addict and we just used her as an informant like we’ve done a million times before...chalking the incident up to his own inexperience...There are always things you learn that you can do better.”

“Officers overseeing the operation also claimed they hadn’t considered that an attack like this would happen.”

They saw her as a means to an end, nothing more. Not a person with a serious problem and certainly not a victim of a horribly violent crime.

I initially read about this on AP and the second I read that same quote (“She was an addict and we just used her as an informant like we’ve done a million times before”) I experienced that all-too-familiar disgust that comes up when cops explain anything they do. “Used”, “just an addict”. She’s a tool, might as well…

It didn’t link her to a violent crime. But thanks for the whataboutism.

wut? Who are you even talking to?

Yup...taking a page from the US Republican playbook, they defund and defund a service that provides a benefit to everyone, then complain that it doesn’t work and needs to be privatized. The waitlist in the wake of Covid means that the patients are fleeing to private practice in droves, and of course the Tories claim…

When lieutenant Park says this is the system working exactly as intended, I’m inclined to believe him.

A few bad apples? Nah. It’s all of them. The whole goddamn bushel.

They used power and control to put her in a position in which she was sexually assaulted. Sounds a lot like they were sex trafficking. 

I am trying to wean off watching cop shows, which are propaganda to make police appear like decent everyday people. They are not. They are thugs with a badge, with zero accountability as this story and many others show.