The two statistics that would be most useful to an underwriter in determining (where legal) how to adjust premiums based on gender do not appear to be discussed by the cited sources anywhere:

So it’s your position that this will not have any impact at all on the degree to which future victims of hate crimes are taken seriously?

I can appreciate that you’re coming at this from a parent’s perspective, and so you have some real skin in the game here, but I have far less trust in judges and prosecutors than you do (with regard to weighing circumstances so that a 14-year-old girl who has a handful of naked pictures of herself on her phone isn’t…

She specifically mentions “Jesus” thought--certainly that excludes a whole bunch of religions, right?

It could be both: he could be contrite and teachable, and he might have had help from his parents or another adult in putting into words his genuine thoughts and feelings.

The child porn laws about kids taken picture of themselves and their friends sounded pretty weird to me at first, but I’ve completely come around to it.

Even if no physical (or digital—internet age and all that) list is every created or circulated, they’re almost certainly still going to be judged/ranked/compared based on their appearance, and otherwise objectified—albeit, more likely within the ambit of in-person conversations and the like.

Do you think she’d take it if she knew it came from him?

I’m not entirely sure how this conduct jibes with the Establishment Clause—but assuming for a moment that a legislator praying during sessions isn’t necessarily out of bounds, there must still be some point at which religiously-motivated, open hostility towards another legislator (on the basis of the targeted…

I’m aware, and it’s obviously intellectually dishonest—these people don’t need to be fed any more fuel though. Candace Owens was just tweeting today (or maybe yesterday) that this turn of events “destroys” the “myth” of white privilege. So there’s another bullshit proposition that this Jussie Smollett thing will be…

That was the whole problem I had with that theory. In what world does getting assaulted give you a higher paycheck?

Me, 100% spitballing: the attack would drum up so much publicity and goodwill that Smollett would have the upper hand in negotiations? And they would give him carte blanche because ... urrm, racially motivated attack?

Lourdes, huh? Well, assuming the character is Latina (or Latinx, if the character doesn’t identify as a woman), I can foresee people being indignant because she’s doing white people witchcraft in lieu of something like Santeria, or if they make her a Santera, people being indignant because the movie will have…

If this were craps, I’d put all my chips on your comment. I think you’ve totally fucking nailed it.

This is interesting... if your kid qualifies or otherwise meets the admissions standard, and then someone with some ostensible influence over the admissions process contacts you to hit you up for a bribe (as Meredith apparently did), I’m less comfortable prosecuting the parent who pays the requested bribe in the same…

What a total crock of shit. It is baffling to me that Smollett gets walk on this shit. But even if the prosecution had followed through, damage is done: this will forever be the “Duke Lacrosse case” of racially motivated hate crimes—i.e., anytime someone wants to cite a single incident of a falsely reported hate crime…

They dug that shit up quick, too. No one forgot about Dre, indeed.

“We see several inconsistencies with this affidavit.”

Do you really think USC is going to deny her entry (or any of his kids that apply for that matter) as long as she’s at least at or above entrance requirements?

It’s just a total coincidence that out of the thousands of institues of learning in the US[.]