People are really anthropomorphizing the gorilla’s behavior. I would say most people haven’t seen the full footage and are basing their reaction on the moments when he wasn’t dragging the child around.

If you’re culture routinely mutilates women to stop their sexual desires then your culture is, at it’s core, inferior and barbaric.

Please don’t use the word “circumcised” - it’s the word they want you to use to disguise that this is in no way related to male circumcision.

If the parents are immune from consequences, this will never stop.

“This is part of the tragedy,” Abdel-Samee said. “May god give her the strength to overcome the passing of her daughter but this is another issue.

Eternally woke IMHO. And eternally bae!

The guy who played Finnick was hot as hell and great, but Jesse Williams would have been fantastic as well.

Can we give Terry Crews an honorary mention or is he considered an eternally woke bae?

I love the opposite of wokeness being “some sleepyhead shit.” Can I use that?

You are welcome to take your own advice and ignore me.

I have a Boston Cream Pie that I’m willing to share.

Or it could just be a rhetorical way of saying, “I am struck by the vast and terrifying gap between the mundanities of daily life and the sheer horror of this story. Let me illustrate to you how strange it feels to know that while most of us spend most of our time saying, Hey, today’s the day I gotta make that cake…

What’s the point of your comment? Why do you feel the need to judge how someone processes a terrible event?

That cake comment is the best part of my morning so far.

That cake sounds amazing. Baking is how I deal with stress so I get you on focusing there. This story is just terrible.

easy peasy bourbon squeezy, I just bought a handle of Kirkland’s Finest at Costco and it’s got your name on it in Sharpy

Yes, but only if you bring the bourbon.

please can I have some cake too, it sounds delicious and it would make me feel better :(

In other news I’m about to make a birthday cake for my boss with a cute little piggy on top. Her daughter emailed me last minute and asked since she had seen some of my cakes on Instagram. It’s going to be almond cake with roasted cherries and whipped cream filling with chocolate ganache on top.