Just going to chime in as an insomniac naysayer to the people who will eventually say cut off contact with the friend and crush. I feel like that is so often the line of thinking when people are not meeting all of our needs these days. In my opinion, we need all of our friends and people we feel drawn too. If you…

Is there such a thing as virgin shaming? Because that is what I think is happening here.

well. you know. you just don't know whether she really wanted to kiss him or not. I was 13 at the time and none of my friends believed me either, even though this dude actually pinned me to the ground to kiss me. and I am young enough and went to a private school during the early 90s when Antioch was happening and…

whoah this sounds so much like the justification of a rape hahaha. as a girl who has been forcibly kissed and for eho it was a traumatizing experience this is funny to see on jez.

I have no idea. It has been popping up all over reddit, the past couple of days. Here is a compendium of some: http://imgur.com/a/5ejU1

Lindy! This is unrelated, but you have to do a feminist pop-culture analysis of this phenomenon: http://i.imgur.com/ajeDG4M.jpg It is too funny and true!

I read the entire first section of this Dirt Bag in the voice of Thomas Haden Church. I really could not help it. This is possibly the most California thing of all possible California things.

case in point: http://gawker.com/everyones-gett…

Nope. That's why people protest and riot. But in this case it is just untrue that the police don't have to respond to the community. I hope they are all fired. They do not have impunity.

The police are absolutely accountable and responsive to the community. In many counties sheriffs are elected and everywhere the police respond to elected officials who determine legislation and budgets that determine what they can and cannot do. It's called democracy! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_ac…

The officer who killed Mike Brown should be charged with murder. It's absurd to think that someone in this country should be able to kill another unarmed person without consequence.

"Well, the police clearly are looking at this as an "us versus them" situation," and that is exactly what is fucked about them. I don't think we should contribute our rhetoric to reify their world view. I just feel like whenever "both sides" is used you get into tricky territory that starts erasing actual facts and…

how exactly is a citizenry and the police force it employs "both sides"?

Oh man! I wish that you would have taken a course in any cultural studies and realized that this is a real thing and that race is not a thing. They are absolutely correct in talking about it as a social construct that needs to be done away with and only helps to perpetuate prejudice and ignorance. We can definitely…

hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! LMFAO OMG SO FUNNY!

Maybe I should be whipping out the unpopular opinion puffin here, but I really think requiring these kids to go to school impinges on these people's religious freedoms, which is core tenent of American life. Our education system is deeply wrapped up in the dominant ideological system, and people in America, by…

Can someone please explain how what Kelly Cutrone is saying makes any sense? Why, if no one cares what people with massive popularity amongst the lower classes, would any of the major fashion houses then want to dress people like J Law or Kristen Stewart or use them in marketing campaigns? I don't understand. It's…

and sometimes even they admit it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/arti…

But that's the secret to the whole industrial military celebrity complex, everyone who is making big bucks is making it pretty much off of nothing or because of some made up value or artificially limited supply backed by the government. And then the people making big bucks turn around and feed everyone a bullshit…

If someone is particularly taken with a celebrity's personality, they might always argue that it is a reflection of a certain amount of talent. My first picks would Gwyneth Paltrow and J Law. I find both their personalities pleasing, and I am sure they are hard working, but I don't find their acting talent, for…