That is literally my dream job.

She’s getting paid, but isn’t allowed to perform the functions of her job. Sounds perfect to me!

Your experience is yours and your only. I’m not going top sit here and pretend that Houston, where I live, isn’t a massive hub for human trafficking, or that massage spots and cantinas don’t participate in sex slavery, nor am I going to engage in victim blaming with regards to their “debts.”

They were puppies.

This study (grrr kinja still won’t let me format or insert links) analyzed data from 116 countries and found that countries where prostitution was legal have a higher inflow of human trafficking: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-prostitution-increase-human-trafficking/

Legalizing it doesn’t make it safer for women or decrease trafficking.

These places only use sex slaves brought in from other countries. There are no feel-good stories in these so-called massage parlors nor is there any empowerment. It doesn’t get much worse than this.

I had a friend in Chicago who had a salon on the first floor of her apartment building. She said it was tucked back in a corner, but went down there one day to try to get her brows done before a last minute event. She was shoo’d out by the girl working the desk before she could even get close enough to say anything.…

Apparently human trafficking in these types of places is pretty rampant. Many of the victims underage.

You know, I think Zero Dark Thirty is precisely about the lead character’s experiences and perspectives as a woman in a mostly male world. Her difference, her femaleness are consistently emphasized— Maya is often shot in a oner, whereas the male characters are in group shots; she is separate and different from all…

There will always be plenty of men directing movies. Movies with women in them, movies without women in them. Don’t worry about the men.

Read the book - delicious spun sugar fun.

For a horrifying moment it seemed as though it was headed for his mouth.

I assume the other party in the murder suicide was a grizzly bear.

Ha, like that’s not happening now

US allies Saudi Arabia recently used white phosphorus in Yemen. *crickets*

Celeste’s face when Jane says that she’d considered the possibility that violence was part of Ziggy’s DNA because of his father - the near-instant connection of dots and quiet devastation. Nicole Kidman is a way better actress than I’ve previously given her credit for.

I figured he was going to find out about it, but I still felt my stomach drop with Celeste when he casually mentioned that he found out about the apartment. When she was there looking at it earlier, I was really afraid he was going to show up and kill her.

I recently read the book before I started the series and I REALLY, REALLY wish they had explored the classism of Celeste’s storyline like they did in the book.