Ha! I sort of thought the opposite. I thought the first third was the best part/that it had so much potential. The end fell kinda flat to me.

Ahh yes, not a speck on his record of domestic abuse, no time in jail, and surely no need to turn over his guns. How delightful.

“They come back different”

Not that this is something his mother would ever acknowledge, but there is a connection between domestic violence and violence on a larger scale

As someone who is a shade darker than albino this made me laugh so loud it scared my cat.

Is it possible that ... he actually is so white that it’s contagious? Maybe there *were* several African-Americans and Latinos in the group, but after repeated Ryan exposure, they TURNED WHITE?

I thought honor killings were basically hate crimes committed by family members.

Same logic could be applied to an alternate scenario with equivalent results.

what is the distinction between what happened to this woman and the woman who is beaten to death by her husband with the rest of the family watching and afraid to intervene or going along with it because they are just as brainwashed that she deserved and provoked what she got by being a naggy woman? your focus on…

My first thought on reading your post was “Did...she just All Lives Matter honour killings?” I see your point, but it’s right there in the name that these are murders. These are murders carried out for specific ideological reasons, and need special measures to address. We need some way to distinguish them from regular…

Jessamina is weirdly invested in minimizing this pretty awful reaction, and I don’t get why.

Someone else correctly pointed out that honor killings are common in India. So, according to your opinion, India is a Muslim country?

“Hailed as Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian”

I agree with the sentiment, but at the same time I want “honor killings” to be associated with stuff like this: cowardly, senseless, backwards, outdated, and ultimately useless patriarchal fundamentalism.

It’s amazing how context changes what an action can mean yeah?

I really do not understand why anyone feels justified in killing someone who doesn’t agree with their beliefs in a non-threatening/non-violent way.

IT’S NOT RELIGION. IT’S MISOGYNY. YEAH I’M SCREAMING AND I’M GOING TO KEEP SCREAMING. MEN HATE US. WHETHER THAT TAKES A RELIGIOUS FACE OR A SECULAR FACE, THAT’S THE PROBLEM. OR ARE YOU GOING TO TELL US HOW LUCKY WE ARE BECAUSE OUR LOVERS/HUSBANDS KILL US INSTEAD OF OUR BROTHERS AND FATHERS (WHO ONLY STOPPED DOING IT,…

Sorry if it seems like I’m stalking you, but you keep making good points so I’mma keep starring you.

Well, the italian criminal code considered a man killing his sister, wife, or daughter because she tarnished his “honor” a mitigating circumstance until the 1980s.

#thisiswhywestillneedfeminism