This isn’t entirely related, but it’s funny how the “yoga community” doesn’t have one single Indian. I hate that it’s become so associated with upper middle class white women and their “wellness” moment.

Isn’t that the sort of thing gun laws should be for.

There are a lot of parents of dead children(and some dead parents) who would have said “My kids would never touch a gun just laying out.” Kids do things they were taught not to do all the time. Even good kids with good parents. Usually the worst result is a pregnancy or an appearance in Juvenile court. That’s the…

Fuck guns and fuck the NRA and fuck anyone who supports the NRA.

It’s really easy. Don’t be a loud obnoxious douche and you’ll do just fine in Japan.

Seeing a black woman hate on Bruno Mars while using a Japanese handle that means “I love you” should be a textbook example of the word irony.

hey! rude to one of the most important pieces in art history!

People’s resilience and ability to not be physically harmed by words is not a reason to perpetuate demeaning and hateful expressions, even if they’ve lost some of that ugliness over time. I get what you’re saying here (they’re only words, right?), but this concept of “people just shouldn’t take it the wrong way” is…

“Israel is Asia” is a dumb take that I was genuinely not expecting to read today, so, congrats for that.

It’s “pique” my interest.

So now you don’t have a position and now you’re just kinda falling apart.

Maybe you’re right, but fortunately that’s not the standard by which we base punishments in our judicial system.

I don’t really get why this is bothering people. This article was about the sentencing. It’s newsworthy (to me) because she was tried as an adult when she committed the crime at 12. As a lawyer, I think that’s fucked.

Irrelevant. All kids are kids. We made a decision as a matter of policy, backed by sound science, that crimes committed by kids have to be treated differently. We decided that not only are kids presumed to be redeemable, we won’t even give ourselves the discretion to say that one isn’t. All kids should be given that…

Yeah, good luck with the whole children deserve harsher punishment stance. Just when I thought I’ve read it all...

It always bothered me that they tried these two girls as adults.

All you have to do is write in to dearjane@jezebel.com with your questions and I’ll take it from there. Please change names and identifying info; this advice column unfortunately is not aimed at destroying lives. And if you sign your letter with a funny ID, we may or may not use it depending on how funny it is.

.....yes I’m well aware that PT was hot garbage and I’ve already reconciled with that and decided to enjoy a fucking musical that makes me happy.

Despite the insistence of our English teachers, ‘They’ is frequently used to refer to a singular person who is hypothetical or whose identity is unknown. “Who’s knocking on the door? They’re very insistent.” and such. The singular they really is already part of common speech.

‘They’ and derivatives can often (and should often) be used as gender neutral singular pronouns.