Thank you. That was part of our talk, that and listening to her instincts. Thankfully we'll be with her on the flight home.

That would be one awesome short film. Do it from the child's, parent's and security's point of view. Seriously picturing the wheee on a luggage cart and loving it, while feeling the parent's panic.

She was so traumatized she wouldn't even let her mother touch her at first, and she was trying to comfort her. The poor kid.

I freely admit these stories are freaking me out. I’m putting my 13 year old on an American Airlines flight next month to go to camp in D.C. We are paying the unaccompanied minor fee, and they better watch my fricken kid. I've already talked to her about being aware and speaking up if anything makes her uncomfortable.…

Well now I may have to go chrome.

was going to post this. What an awesome, funny, and disturbingly real sketch.

I read about this on Broadly. The townsfolk pulled out the same old boys will be boys, and are pissed at the family of victim for bringing the town into the spotlight. Of course. These stories make me hate people.

Didn't Russian television do the same thing? Report a false gang rape regarding a young teenage girl and refugees in Germany? So of course refugees were getting attacked by roving gangs of men who wanted to, "protect our women!" But the Russian media would not let it go, even when the girl admitted it was bogus.

Except putting Harriet Tubman on the 20 didn’t come from Obama. It was a competition started online, and when the organizers(can't remember their name) got such a huge response they sent a petition to the Obama administration. And seriously, people actually voted this moron into office? It’s mind boggling.

I could only make it partway through. What utter garbage.

This. Thank you. People ask me if I believe in abortion and I say my personal view doesn’t matter. What I believe in is a woman’s right to choose what’s best for her body. And I tell my anti-abortion friends and family if they really want to end abortion then go after the root causes, which you listed. But it just…

Aside from two I can think of off the top of my head, all religion is oppressive to women. The three faiths of Abraham are full of misogyny. But as Reza Aslan says, if you look for love, compassion and kindness in your religion you'll find it, if you look for rage and hatred you'll find it. Religions are full of both,…

I’m a parent, my daughter is thirteen now and has had every shot recommended by her doctors. I researched, and the only I pushed back on was chicken pox. So we made a deal, if she didn't get chicken pox by thirteen she'd get the shot. I have a large family, every kid is up to date on their immunizations and very…

Because of Tavis Smiley’s book about Michael Jackson, and the fact that J.J. Abrams announced Bad Robot will be adapting it for a short run television show.

I meant acquitted, but once again kinja won't let me edit, and keeps kicking me out of this article.

I’ve asked my mom why she still celebrates him, and her answer has always been the charges were dropped. My response is he paid, and paid, and paid. Like R. Kelly who paid off multiple victims, Jackson was guilty. I loved his music as a kid but if you pay to avoid prosecution you're guilty and pedophiles do not…

Not at all the same, and you know it.

Except no one is encouraging maximum sentences and ruthless prosecution across the board. People want judges to stop handing out lenient sentences to rapists because they don’t want to ruin their futures, because they consistently show more empathy and sympathy for those rapists than they do for their victims. Rapists…

I'm so sorry.

And Judges 19. A vile story of gang rape and murder, where another woman is offered to a mob to keep a man safe. He sleeps the night away while his concubine/wife (she's referred as both in different passages) raped all night by the village men. It's sickening anyone calls this shit the word of God.