As opposed to just a single person raping and brainwashing you? In interviews around the time of their marriage, Vili said he was marrying here because what else was he going to do? Sounds an awful lot like believing you’ll go to heaven if you cooperate with your rapist.

She wasn’t charged with “statutory rape,” she was charged with CHILD RAPE. It’s the same crime as child molestation. It’s not some technical charge. If this had been a 12 year old FLDS girl who’d been plural married and had two kids by the time she was 16, she’d also deny she was a victim. That wouldn’t make it ok or…

As the mom of a teenage boy, I’d be extremely uncomfortable having him around Mary Kay Letourneau. But then I don’t think child rape is a non-issue, or that abuse victims can’t seem “normal”.

It IS pretty off-putting. My guess is it’s coming either from a very young person or an adult who wants to justify their own attraction to a child. Because regardless of your position on men in our culture, it should be obvious this relationship is not about love.

I have had the hardest time as an attorney with female admins, especially older ones. At my first firm, I was the only attorney who made my own copies and operated the Pitney-Bowes machine because my assigned admin didn’t like working for women. Try explaining THAT to a male partner — of COURSE she’s not refusing to…

Thank you so much for explaining to us ladies what turns you on! This sort of insightful male perspective is why I read Jezebel. I just can’t get it anywhere else! Not to mention the expert anatomical advice — I am SO relieved to know that I’m “unnaturally thin” because you can see both my clavicles and my lower ribs.

Do cockroaches TASTE like shrimp, crab or lobster? Because I think it's so weird that so many people make your point — they eat the same stuff as shellfish, they look like shellfish— but never mention the taste. I don't eat shellfish because I find it aesthetically pleasing, I eat it because it's delicious.

Thank you! Finally, someone being honest about this! I am all down with bug eating if it ACTUALLY tastes like shellfish. But I'm highly suspicious of this whole "Well, it's just like shellfish, it's PROBABLY delicious."

Hey, Sharon Liles!

Try that again, dude.

Personally, I see my cat.

Holy shit, look! It's FUCKING CALCIUM FREE CHEESE! Like, ZERO calcium! Do you suppose I'll see a unicorn next, since they also don't exist?

Since you don't seem to be getting it, rice milk contains about 20mg of calcium per quart. That's around 2% of the daily requirement. To get it to 15-30% of the RDA, companies that make rice milk ADD calcium to it. You can still have rice (or soy or nut) milk WITHOUT the added calcium. Which is what I meant by…

I think Justifiable enjoys the rage.

I am not the person who posed the preference/anaphylaxis false dichotomy; you did. You said people who use the term "allergy" when they don't actually go into anaphylaxis make life harder for those who have real allergies. I simply pointed out that there's a reason people without allergies say they have them and it's…

People with kidney stones can't have foods that are high in calcium. People taking MAOIs are subject to blood pressure crises if they eat food containing tyramine (which includes certain cheeses). They walk among you, without you even realizing it. Again, these folks may say they have an "allergy" because they really…

No, I don't think that heaven prevents people from being fuckwits; I'm just suggesting that THIS particular customer might not have been, based on my own experiences. People in these comments have trouble with the idea that there are a substantial number of people who need to avoid foods that will make them sick. They…

It's not my definition (it comes from the word paira, meaning equal) but hey, if you want to waste your time repeatedly asking a pair of two questions instead of one, more power to you.

"Pair" means two things that are matched to use/be together, like shoes or pants or turtledoves. If you're talking about two of a group of fungible things, like breadsticks, the correct term is "two". No wonder people are confused.

Or, and this is crazy I know, the cheese girl HEARD the customer wrong or MISUNDERSTOOD the question. There is nothing worse than pretentious, marginally informed specialty store clerks. I remember my search for no added sulfite wine at a wine merchant in a reasonably sized city. This was pre-smartphone and I had to…