The incarceration rate in the UK is significantly lower than in the US. People are much, much less likely to be given a custodial sentence, and when they are, it’s for much shorter lengths of time. In England and Wales, 148 people per 100,000 are in prison. In Scotland, it’s 146. In Northern Ireland, it’s 101. In the…

The transphobic trolls are here, y’all. Use the dismiss button liberally.

Both the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association view sex reassignment surgery as medically necessary, not elective. It may be hard for you to understand, but denying a trans individual access to necessary medical care is the very definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The…

Ya he’s so stupid he’s practically a girl.

Madeleine, I wish you’d expand on the whole teen consent/statutory rape angle. I keep seeing glowing reviews that seem to dance around it, but it’s obviously pretty central to the story. The reviews are all like oh yeah, that’s there but it’s not a problem but why isn’t it a problem?

“The film, with its general frankness about teen girl horniness and explicit displays of sex, will push past many viewers’ comfort zones...”

Weird how any discussion of Roma people goes from Italian pickpockets to terrible Paris to Irish travellers in so little time. 3 absolutely different topics and unrelated.

It’s disgusting watching these “liberals” continue to defend pedophiles like Polanski and Allen and Cosby. I mean, what great artist hasn’t drugged, molested, sodomized, and sexually assaulted preteen girls, right?

Beat me to it. Are we crying because ERASURE OF BLACK TRANS WOMEN? I think I have some tears for that. Not only do they have the audacity to use the phrase “unsung heroes” (because no one ever gives credit to the white men dontcha know) but they actually have him throw the first brick?!?!? MADNESS.

I didn’t say he wasn’t. The point of it is that the real Ray Castro wasn’t even trans. It looks like they’ve fictionalized him and made him an amalgam for all the trans women of color that were so integral to the riots. It’s fine and dandy that he’s Puerto Rican. I’m not disputing that that makes him more diverse than…

Some regular Hollywood bullshit. I remember when ‘The Last King of Scotland’ was blowing the world’s minds, and the same thing — the story of the people of Uganda under Idi Amin couldn’t be told unless it was from the perspective of a fictional white man — from one of the whitest places on the planet, no less. SMH to…

Yeah, but he’s a cis dude playing a trans woman. He plays a trans woman on the show Penny Dreadful, too.

Great minds. :)

Oh hooray. The first Stonewall movie is about a fictional white gay male. This erases the BLACK trans woman who actually was the first to throw something (Marsha P. Johnson, if you’re wondering). It erases all the dykes who were being raped and arrested and who fought on the front lines of basically every important…

I think a shutdown would require the Dems to grow a spine and actually call out the GOP for their bullshit, and I am not confident that would happen.

Yes it would. Calling it an “Afro" is to use the term coined by black Americans. It necessarily refers to and implies a connection with the anti-establishment, empowering culture of the 60s-70s experienced by people of color in America. The hairstyle in that article is NOT an Afro. You can either grow/wear/have a…

Yo, is that last question serious? You mean the country that managed to colonize a large chunk of Africa? You mean the country responsible for Haiti’s problems b/c they deigned to fight their colonizers? That France?

1. The preferred term is locks, not dreads.

Your complaint that the media hasn’t talked about Ms. Howe is completely fair. Your characterization that Jenner killed her, however, isn’t. We don’t know if the sequence of events are cause to bring criminal charges against Jenner (although I thought I read somewhere that charges were not being brought? I could be…

So white colonialism is still alive and breathing in the form of rich, anglo-American males stomping all over Africa.

First they did it with humans, now they’re doing it with wildlife. The only difference is that the world is now much more vigilant and and yes, vengeful.

I hope Dr Seski-Needledick is ready for his…