Wow, where to begin? Maybe be identifying who “the Seberts” are before the first reference? They’re not the Kennedys.

Let’s pretend the new crop of F1 drivers are 20, because the math will be easier. 17 years ago when they started in karts, it was unheard of for a little girl to be out there. It’s still rare now! It’s going to take 10 or 15 years at least before there are enough girls actually making it through the ranks to get…

It’s a stacked playing field when carting is so extraordinarily heavily male focused.

He died of a respiratory illness. The only medical prohibition JW’s have is against blood transfusions. Please folks, I know we want something to blame, but the man’s religion had nothing to do with his death.

As someone who escaped that damned cult, that would make me so angry. I hope he didn’t leave those people one red cent. The worst years of my life were spent with them. My sister and I were so hoping he had gotten out before he died. She said it perfectly, “He didn’t deserve to die a Jehovah’s Witness.”

Criminal cases aren’t private, though. I see what you’re saying but it’s a matter of public record.

My tortoiseshell has been giving me the stink-eye all morning ... “yeah, wait until you go to sleep. THEN we’ll see who can get up on the counter tops."

There are a couple hundred Malayan tigers left; just leaving them all where they live is maybe not the best way to still have Malayan tigers in ten years.

This is like all my friends who join in on the beginnings of a trend and get mad when it reaches middle america levels of popularity. When maxi skirts were the rage my friend was all put out because she “started” that. No, girl, you did not, you were just part of wave one.

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I mean, I get not every teenager/young adult is like this, but my god, BAN TEENS FROM MAGAZINES. Kylie, STOP MAKING PEOPLE YOUR AGE LOOK BAD. I know good young people exist. BUT YOU ARE MAKING IT SO HARD.

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I read an interview on the BBC website with a survivor of sex trafficking who said that, despite keeping a detailed diary of the men she was forced to see, none of them could be prosecuted for essentially raping her as paying for sex was not a crime (I think she was trafficked from Indonesia to the U.S. ) Protection…

Women have the right to do what they want with their own bodies, and that includes prostitution. Restricting prostitution is restricting women’s rights. Banning prostitution doesn’t stop prostitution anymore than abortions stops abortions, it just drives them underground and makes them less safe. This is a huge step…

No see, that’s different, because getting my nails done cheaply is something I actually benefit from. Women should be exchanging sex with men for social stability and value, and a share in his property and assets, or out of love and affection, or just general horniness. If some upstart hussy exchanges it with men for…

Many times the police cannot even gain access to brothels or look at their records, so a brothel could run a legitimate prostitution business and keep women as slaves at the same time, and it would be fairly difficult to investigate.

I guess that’s why most sex worker-run organizations prefer the decriminalization model over legalization.

Plus, victims of human trafficking are used for all kinds of labour, not just sex. But you don’t see as many people clamouring to make it illegal to hire cleaners, fruit pickers, manual labourers, salon beauticians, etc, etc. Could it be that we don’t mind turning a bit of a blind eye to poor people from other places…

I know nothing about French politics, but the large number of abstentions might reflect the fact that this was a controversial bill and a deal was maybe made? The last minute Terri Schiavo law (sometimes called the Palm Sunday compromise) here in the US was passed through the Senate by voice vote with only three…

I feel like this is kind of a mixed bag? I feel like if you were going to do sex work right anywhere, it’d be in Europe, where you can have the kinds of regulations in place to protect the sex workers (pretty sure this is how the Netherlands does it...). But I guess if you’re going to outlaw paying for sex this is the…