You're right to be skeptical of Jezebel because their writers frequently choose 'pithy' over 'all the facts.' But your perspective on colleges is really... naive. Most public colleges are LGBT friendly. Most religious colleges are distinctly not LGBT friendly. The religious college where I live (a nationally…

That's a good strategy; I think I'll start doing the same. Also, I really appreciated you responding to this thread. I didn't have it in me to argue any further and it was really disheartening to see not only so few comments on this article, but also hardly any good comments.

This whole comment section is a clusterfuck. I guess I shouldn't be surprised; Jezebel doesn't do too well outside it's relatively narrow purview, but... Geeze. Another response to me referenced activists "howling" for an executive order (howling! like animals! get it??). I don't even know what to say to that. People…

Eh, that's mostly a result of medical technology at this point. It's more clear (i.e., there's been more research done, conclusions are easier to draw, and it's more visible) how women's age and behaviors affect pregnancy. But men's age very much affects sperm quality, and thus fertility and the health of the child…

Look, I get that he may be playing a long game, but surely you can understand why people are upset and distrustful. It's not easy to watch the debate over ENDA drag on when your actual livelihood is in peril. I know people who have lost their jobs for being gay. They are in the same industry that I am in and, as I…

Yep. I'm not surprised that a significant number of people buy into it, given how strongly it's pushed by conservative media. What I do wonder, however, is whether or not politicians like Perry actually believe there's a war on Christianity or whether they just find it politically expedient to play along. I suppose…

I have literally never met anyone who admitted to voting for this guy. All my white Christian conservative students hate him; so do their parents, if they're to be believed. Even my super religious conservative 'Obama is a Muslim and he's stealing Christmas!!' grandma hates Rick Perry. I am honestly baffled as to how…

Yeah, but stop and frisk is a NY policy and this case took place in Nevada. And, while the practice ends up catching a lot of drugs in its net, it's designed to catch people illicitly carrying weapons. In this case, an officer was carrying out a drug search on a person in court for a completely unrelated matter and…

You know, I really don't know where I stand on this. I did contemplate suicide in HS and my feeling is that this kind of assignment, in and of itself, wouldn't have influenced me either way. What I do think might have been difficult, however, is listening to my peer's discuss suicide in class. I think people are…

I'm really sorry that happened to you. I sincerely hope that your standing up to the professor gave her a wake up call and saved future students from the pain you experienced. I teach American history, which necessarily involves discussions about race, gender, sexuality and other difficult issues. I try to be…

Not to mention that it illustrates perfectly the fear many people experience in regards to police. This is what happens when you try to stand up to a person in power, whether it's about sexual assault or trumped up legal charges. There's a system of collusion and a willful ignorance of the law that does a complete…

As for the latter point, maybe. If the judge was educated in family law, then she truly may not know much about criminal law. That's a problem, but it's more of a problem IMO that an LEO doesn't know what does or does not constitute an arrestable offense.

It's really a mystery, since I can say with certainty that most women's clothing is not designed to fit busty women either. I mean, unless all those shirts I've tried on over the years were *supposed* to make me look like a Hooter's waitress.

I really don't understand this either. Someone with the power to enforce law should be held to a much more rigorous standard and should be much more familiar with the law than a civilian. If I break a law and claim I didn't know that the law existed, I can still be charged and probably will be charged. Yet an LEO can…

I am wondering about this as well. Surely a marshall must have some cause to complete a drug search, especially when the search includes the person's body and not just the person's possessions. Surely a person is allowed to request a bodily search be completed by a same-gender officer. I'm not surprised that laws…

I really wonder if this data is biased by who gets included. The rates of queer homelessness (especially for young people) is off the charts. If you subtract out that subset by simply overlooking them, I could see the rates of education for lesbians being higher than straight women. Or maybe I just know too many queer…

I would assume that's part of it. The rate of homelessness for queer youth is also extremely high which both drags down the average income for LGBT people across the board, and also means that those youths grow up to be poor adults because dragging oneself out of homelessness is very difficult. Moreover, the majority…

Juries all over America are biased against sex workers. There's a link in the article to this effect. Singling out Texas is probably not necessary, but is factually accurate. I hardly think it's the most important takeaway from the article.

Because he's pointing a gun at them in order to steal their property. That's a viable threat to their lives. The escort pocketed some money and tried to walk out of the man's apartment. That is not a viable threat to his life. Do you honestly not see the difference between these two cases?

I agree with this entirely. Although the problems with River especially have made me see Amy's story as a bit icky, in retrospect.