Troll harder dude.

There may be a spectrum of quality in terms of how well zoos do by their animals. But I think that the bigger issue here, which is getting lost in the animal rights debate, is a question of workers’ rights. Zoos are bad employers. Even the ones that don’t exploit their animals exploit their humans. The average salary…

Many Zoos in CA (Santa Barbara, LA, San Diego, Monterrey Bay Aquarium) shelter animals that are being rehabilitated for rerelease. They are the only institutions with the facilities to hold them. For instance, Santa Barbara from time to time has pelicans who are detoxing. They get “drunk” (It’s actually demoic acid…

In the US, though, the word “sanctuary” and the word “zoo” doesn’t necessarily mean anything. There are plenty of “sanctuaries” that are actually road side freak shows, and there are also a few “zoos” that are nonprofit that carry out a mission of education and preservation.

Some zoos are corporate like seaworld. Some zoos aren’t. Many small zoos, especially in rural areas, are just schmaltz tourist traps run by animal hoarders. I don’t know which kind of zoo this person worked for. But I specifically acknowledged, in my post, that if she didn’t know anything about tigers it wasn’t her…

“She probably had an extensive wealth of knowledge about tigers and how they react in captivity.” Actually she probably knew nothing about tigers. This is one of the public misconceptions about zoos and aquariums: that the keepers are animal experts. At the best zoos keepers usually have a background similar to that…

Same with Adam Sandler actually.

Yeah. I don’t really see what case the couple has here. It doesn’t sound like they signed any kind of contract outlining what would happen on the wedding day, how many photos they would receive or what they expected stylistically. She did the job. They can claim that photos “aren’t good” but she can claim that they…

Too true. But the rhetorical point of these questions always goes over pro-lifers’ heads. Because, ultimately, pro-lifers’ convictions come down to the poverty of their imaginations. “How would you like it if you were never born?” reveals the childish conviction of pro-lifers that there is no potential universe in…

But opposing social services DOES make sense if you are pro-life. Because pro lifers don’t actually want most of us to keep our babies. They want us to make the “loving decision” to give the baby to an evangelical family. Honest to God, one of the reasons that I would never consider putting a child up for adoption is…

What you don’t understand is that these unborn children have amazing potential: They’re all going to become president of the US, or activists on the level of Dr. MLK, or scientists who cure cancer. Can women do any of those things?

“If she was seen by the public at large as a black woman, light skinned or not, was she not subjected to the same biases or inclusions based on that?”

No. Because she got to chose which version of black womanhood she wanted to represent and she got to use her insider’s knowledge of white thought processes regarding…

I think Nevada is a different situation. For one, prostitution isn’t legal in Nevada except for in some very isolated parts of the state, where the brothels are located.

You’re not a “marginalized voice.” You’re a child who thinks that your fantasies about agency trump the rights of the truly marginalized to exist in civil society. And you have lied through your teeth about the history of both legalization and decriminalization of prostitution.

“That would mean clients can make demands when it comes to price and services that sex workers would have to go along with. It means the client would be more likely to kill sex workers and just as likely to get away with it.” Actually, in Sweden, when a John doesn’t pay a prostitute can call the police on them. And…

In this case, though, the 85% that are being considered trafficking victims don’t even have identity papers or anyway to prove their identity, travel or seek employment. That’s a good sign they’re actually trafficking victims.

The Netherlands also moved from legalization (which increased trafficking and also physical abuse) to this model, with good results. And in Germany, where they have tried legalization and also seen abuses rise, will probably do the same.

It may not seem likely to you, but its been proven to work in European countries that have already moved from legalization to decriminalization.

The Netherlands and Germany legalized sex work specifically to make it safer, through regulation. It didn’t work. The Netherlands had to switch to decriminalization (this model) because when prostitution was legalized, and regulated, human trafficking and physical abuse of prostitutes skyrocketed. Germany is moving…

Again, that’s not what has happened anywhere where decriminalization has been tested. So why would that happen in France?