Parts of Australia decriminalised sex work in 1979 and my state completely legitimised it in (i think) 1995.

You quite seriously cannot buy Foster’s in Sydney unless you’re in an area full of British backpackers.

They didn’t close ranks and start a fundraiser for him. So... yay?

So it’s a stupid new name for non-manogamous relationships? Sure, why not.

Alex Hawke is a prominent member of the Hillsong Church, a ‘prosperity doctrine’ megachurch with fingers in so many shady financial pies that it damn near beggars belief. Hillsong also loves clutching pearls so tightly that they crumble to dust. But that doesn’t bother them because they are good Christians, so Jesus…

Fair call. we wouldn’t want there to be too many acceptable types of women. A dozen or so is the highest we could reasonably go.

He’s not wrong, you know...

You forgot Fat Woman Who Is Allowed To Be Fat Because She Is Funny.

Interestingly, 83.4% Hollywood blockbusters are also really bad movies.

Now that we have put the stupid rumours of the original cast hating/being at all relevant, we only have to worry about it being a bad movie.

Yes but Hollywood.

Aside from the obvious fact that women have to meet a higher standard because “whores” and “reasons” you mean?

Pretty sure you don’t understand the term “healthcare”.

It also means that women who need affordable health care in a number of related fields (sexual health and counselling facilities for example) won’t have access anymore.

Just like in the other article I read about this yesterday, everyone is conveniently cutting out the part of her quote just after the I’M NOT RACIST part where she says something to the effect of “I fucked up really badly and I’m not going to offer a lame excuse.”

I used to live in Japan,. where the normal, polite way to get the waitstaff’s attention is to yell “EXCUSE ME” across the restaurant.

She clearly fucked up. Everyone knows it. We all know it. She knows it. She was trying to do a good thing and accidentally exposed her own unexamined racism. Then she admitted it without excuses. I’m not sure how an unreservedly frank admission of guilt is feeble. It’s exactly what we should be seeing from people when…

Stock image. Right. Makes sense now.

I spent at least 7 seconds trying to parse that as anything that could be called a sentence. Then I gave up.

Ah. That plus “Texas” just made this whole thing make more sense.