I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it was kind of cool and an interesting way to reframe caring for the environment.

This is jezebel.. Anything even marginally hippie-fied summons NYC-bred snark, so this? Forget it. Never mind if it has any value - it'll be lost to the eye roll. Forget about it!

Nobody here seems to realize (including the author) that this is ANNIE FUCKING SPRINKLE we’re talking about here! Famed feminist porn star and sex worker advocate and performance artist! I own one of her tit prints! Sure, she’s a little kooky by most people’s standard, but it’s ANNIE FUCKING SPRINKLE.

It’s hard to listen to but everyone should listen to this piece This American Life did on a 16-year-old pedophile trying to find help.

TRUE. A good friend of mine (who lives in another town) had the shock of her life when the father of her kids’ best friend was arrested on child pornography charges. She had known the wife since college, and the two families were very close. My friend had NO IDEA, never got a creepy vibe from him at all. At first, my…

Honestly, it’s not even close to what TV would have you believe. An ex of mine wasn’t even going to a jury trial, and he was in jail for 7 months before a sentence was even given. This was for felony vandalism charges in which no one was harmed or at risk of being harmed. He was pleading guilty, but they had to figure…

The traditional stereotype about the kinds of people who commit child sexual exploitation crimes simply doesn’t dovetail with reality. As our investigators can attest, the defendants in child pornography cases come in all ages and from all walks of life.

I wonder if they dated all the other oceans first. Like, the Atlantic Ocean was their first love but then randomly found out one day it’s a right-wing nutjob that supported slavery and other awful stuff. Then they fell in love with the Indian Ocean freshman year but their parents’ didn’t approve of the relationship.…

And often they are within families, and protected by families. Just last year a mom friend said she basically had to cut off one entire side of her family because she caught her uncle grooming her 7 year old daughter. Luckily she had taught her daughter to always come to her with stuff and to not keep secrets, etc.,…

I should be so lucky that she considers my dreams worth haunting. Still, this is kinda funny in a “bone broth” and “white people discover collard greens” sort of way.

If it makes you feel any better, it isn’t that they are smart, just that their lawyers are.

I have some friends that I would defend to the death. They’ve gone through horrible shit and they are difficult people but there is a reason for that. So I think I really identify with their friendship as adults and his obvious love of his friend.

And the “To forgive is a gift to yourself. It was in the past, why not just get over it?” Blaming the victim for still feeling hurt, scared, and traumatized.

It’s entirely possible. Children go years being abused without parents knowing/pretending not to know. And abusers have ways of keeping survivors silent. So if the children never speak out, I’d imagine it would be quite easy, especially in that environment, where any telling behavior of the child could just be chalked…

He always seemed really smart and precocious to me, just watching his work as a kid, so I really wouldn’t be surprised if he’s got a higher than average level of intelligence. I’m glad to see that he’s doing as well as someone with that kind of baggage can be doing, and that he’s trying to do what he can to call…

And considering that children are very unlikely to come forward and often don’t even admit to anyone what happened to them until they’re well into adulthood, at the very least a statute of limitations on child abuse and rape should be very long.

The way we continue to treat the people who have been brave enough to come forward is a good way to discourage people who haven’t come forward. With the way the statue of limitations works there is a massive risk that those who do come forward are still in the industry and therefore will lose their job safety or their…

I don’t blame him for not naming names. Because, inevitably, there is the faction asking about proof.

I didn’t know Feldman was so well spoken. I used to love “the Coreys” when I was younger. It must be so strange to have a child and realize how wrong some of the shit that was happening to you really was.

She was born with a silver-plated plastic spoon in her mouth.