Of course this whole mindset is paused whenever someone they know or like is the subject of arrest or prosecution.

Even if you are an illegal immigrant you have rights because you are first a person.

BUT THAT SHOULD MEAN SERIOUS THERAPY AND YEARS OF RECOVERY, NOT BOOK DEALS, SPEAKING GIGS, STATUS AS A RISING POLITICAL STAR AND THUMBS UP FROM THE POTUS!

“It doesn’t excuse shit. Both these men are grown and need to find some way to deal with what happened to them without supporting their attackers.”

the idea of an individual negotiating effectively on their behalf, in a job where there is little leverage (lets say working at a super market, or a manual laborer at a construction site) is non existent. You could say “Well then become more valuable so you have some leverage” but the issue is we have people doing…

2001 here.

If you are anti-choice, you care less about the born, by definition, because forcing birth on unprepared women makes children suffer.

I’ve been arguing with someone over at Kotaku, who says you can be both pro-life and pro-woman. But I try to point out (unsuccessfully it seems), that while you can be personally against abortion, as soon as you want to take away a woman’s right to have one, then you are not “pro-woman”.

If she cared more about the born than the pre-born she would support abortion. Women, who are born, have a right to plan their families and plan their pregnancies and protect the child they already have from being plunged into poverty and privation by having a sibling brought into the world. And so on. She can care…

Using the term ‘pre-born’ (blech) is a quick and clear way to indicate that you were furiously revising your Young Life skit when you should have been paying attention in high school biology.

“Pre-born” is post-fact.

Nothing indicates that she cares less about the born than pre born.

It’s like being furious about amputations. It’s an unfortunate medical procedure that is sometimes necessary, but no one gets riled up about Hippocratic oathes to “do no harm” when a surgeon is holding a scalpel (or even a bone saw).

Actually, Sheila, the vast majority of fetuses are aborted before there is any observable sex.

I just don’t know why we still feel the need to retreat into pro and anti porn factions, y’all. Women face exploitation and violence in every profession. And the entire entertainment industry is built on those practices. We should talk about those problems and advocate for performers in these industries. For every…

Ok, I’ll bite. I’m a sex-positive feminist, I enjoy porn and I support any woman who wants to earn a living as a porn actor. I also believe the industry and its products to be rife with misogyny and in need of further regulation to protect said women. I don’t expect the women who voluntarily work in porn to be okay…

most provincial healthcare will cover the “baseline” surgeries (top and bottom), although the waiting lists are pretty bad. In Ontario the waiting list is about two years for top surgery that’s covered by OHIP. from what I’ve read online most provinces are the same. I might be mistaken though about some of the…

Honey, sorry, that’s bullshit. You are acting like Trump is a normal person, just a republican or a conservative. You know as well as I do that people would not be losing their shit had a decent and honorable person been elected. Like Rubio or Kacish. I may criticize their political positions or policies, but not…

Or, maybe, Democrats are actually capable of being nuanced about things, and liked Wikileaks when it was publicly committing itself to being neutral and non-partisan. And then Assange was put under investigation for rape and his history of egotism and egomania came to light, and Wikileaks started leaking things like…

They can’t.