It’s not confirmation bias it’s the ridiculously lazy fashion industry purposefully recycling fashions every 20 years. 70s AND 90s fashions are back lately b/c they’re 40 and 20 years behind us now. This is the first cycle I’ve been old enough to recognize and it’s so eye rolly. Oh, you look so ORIGINAL and WONDERFUL…

Oh man, back when video games were fun and I could actually figure them out!

I’m pregnant right now and if this (future) kid ever knew of the military-level precision planning that went into his conception . . . whew.

It’s very Kardashian-y to me. From the make up to the creepy ass face she’s making.

I’m 5 months along with my first pregnancy and it’s crazy how this experience, which was planned and which I’m crazy excited about, has made me even MORE pro-choice (and otherwise “pro rights of the actual human and not the cluster of cells). The idea that a woman could be FORCED into 9 months of this is horrifying.

It doesn’t matter if you or I care. The state cares (for a million huge, totally legitimate reasons) and its their interest that has to be weighed against people who want legal polygamous marriage.

Sure, I agree with the consenting adults thing but you just can’t do legal polygamous marriage. “A myriad of problems” is the understatement of the year.

You’re not even scratching the surface. There are SO MANY LAWS AND REGULATIONS that touch on legal marriage that would be enormously complicated by polygamous marriage. Thousands of pages of regulations on insurance, estate administration, etc. would have to be rewritten at the state and federal level.

Making polygamous marriage legal might solve that particular problem but it would cause a shit storm in a ton of other legal areas (child custody, estate administration and taxation, end of life decision-making, etc.).

Ahhh! My maiden name is very German and very long. It ends with “a-u-t” pronounced “out” and an astonishingly large percentage of people will helpfully try to correct me, “Did you mean ‘o-u-t?’”

This is not surprising at all. I’m an attorney and, while I loved law school and I love my job, attorneys are a bunch of special fucking snowflakes. Drives me nuts.

Better to keep it short and obvious than long (combed over) and obvious.

I wouldn’t know. My poo turns into giant boulders when I’m on my period.

I don’t think my 3-sentence opinion where I respectfully disagreed with you counts as a lecture.

I think you need a non-sandwich related hobby.

Or we just don’t all agree with each other?

Like 0.1% of the people commenting on this story seem to understand (b).

I agree with your line of reasoning generally but I think a particular rape could be a hate crime, just not that all rapes are automatically hate crimes. Just like not every murder against a person of a different race/religion/gender is a hate crime, but particular murders certainly could be.

You’re just hurting an innocent janitor in this scenario.

You’re right that the woman probably wouldn’t be targeted if she were a man, but animus toward women as a class would still not necessarily be the motivating factor for the rape (every time anyway, I’m sure it’s true in some cases).