Is she not smart enough to ACT dumb?

Just because the past is gone and a memory doesn't mean that it can't affect the present. What we experience writes itself on our brain; it reinforces neural pathways. Our bodies remember too—there's something called muscle memory. No one could learn to do a complex task without it.

OK, so threats of lynching are acceptable.

So, since there's racism and that's OK because it's a rap battle, then threats of lynching are acceptable?

Many of those messages are equivalent to the street harassment in the video.

Thanks. I was wondering why they allowed the breeding and weren't considering sterilization.

One question I haven't seen answered yet is why not neuter (or vasectomy to keep other things intact) the animal so it can't be used for breeding?

And if a man is out alone and gets car jacked, he's rarely scolded for having the audacity of being out in the world without an escort.

"stop trying to exlusivize tragedies"—I think you just made the other people's point for them with that statement.

Oh, wait...I didn't read it very thoroughly, but is that actually a sculpture or a model? If a sculpture, then that's weird unless it was actually made with a real fetish model who sat for it. Otherwise, if it's a person, especially a fetish model, then I see less of a problem with it

Yes, because that would be relevant for a Russian.

Please make sure everything you do is sensitive to Russian holidays which honor their important social/political leaders.

This is also a fetish. Can black people not engage in a fetish or be fetish models? Not sure if that's the story here, but there are plenty of fetish sites on the internet and the whole "people as furniture" thing is definitely something out there. Has there been any comment from the model herself?

Actually, Heather, there are laws that govern what EVERYONE can put in PUBLIC spaces.

Because public spaces belong to everyone, not just the grieving. These public memorials are becoming more common and it's obvious more places need to start creating laws to govern them.

How do you know she's not dealing with her own grief and this memorial is a constant reminder to her of her own pain?

Can you imagine if everyone created a memorial in the place someone died?

Of course we do, we do it all the time, but death is a sensitive subject to confront. Public spaces don't just belong to the grieving.

No one is saying that the family can't grieve after a week, but that they don't have a right to take over public space as a memorial indefinitely. Can you imagine if everyone did that anytime someone died in a public way? Or even private? Would you want a room in a nursing home with memorials to every person who…

When I was in junior high, it was Polo.