It’s stupid that prostitution is illegal. It is simply another way to criminalize women and remove their autonomy from their own bodies.

The overall goal is to punish people for having sex for pleasure, without the purpose of reproduction.

Colleges are fucking expensive so it’s understandable. What is wrong here is taking money from a scholarship.

if the goal is a legal, safe, and well-regulated sex work industry

“The Associated Press reports that the student was initially reluctant to come forward because the sexual abuse occurred years prior, but detectives found enough corroborated evidence after interviewing the three sisters to arrest Knight.”

Gee, I wonder why the girls thought that would be an issue. I am so over this…

Wait. An agency being run by a GOP government doesn’t properly understand how science works??? Now I’ve seen it all!!

ICE was created in 2003.

We can’t protect ourselves. We can’t protect our sisters from the men that hurt us. We can’t go to the police, we can’t use whisper networks.

I mean, it’s either Heitkamp or a guy who said that he wanted to “wring the Tribal council’s neck and slam them against the wall” during a discussion about the Violence Against Women Act. He’s apparently super concerned that the certain provisions of VAWA give tribes the jurisdiction to prosecute non-Native…

At the very least, I’d like to hear the stories of the women victimized. Because those are the stories that need to be heard.

But I couldn’t do that. It was too late. This was our first train together as a group. All the fellas were there and everybody was anxious to show everybody else how cool and worldly he was. If I jumped in on Vanessa’s behalf, they would accuse me of falling in love. They would send word out on the block that when it…

Well then they would be wrong, not even just about disagreeing with a Black Stormtroopers, but about the clones themselves. The Clone Wars tv show made a big deal about how clones aged very rapidly, which isn’t really as much of a hindrance in the middle of a war, since there’s a high turnover rate anyway. Once the…

Actually that doesn’t even matter because the phased out clone troopers during the empire and they make a point during the movie that they’re not using clones, that’s just an attempt to disguise their racism. 

It’s a weird place to be, having issues with something that racists and white supremacists have more or less made their personal hate object, so that you can’t reasonably engage in critique without either being labeled as one of them, or sharing agreement with one of them. *shudders*

Honestly I am kind of relieved to hear this. Both the (not so) little man and I left The Last Jedi scratching our heads; but when I went hunting for places to talk about the movie they were always toxic environments. I will apparently never care about anything as much as some of these people cared about a movie. They…

Start the clock on the eventual Beto O’Rourke photo op with Grandma and her Grandbabies.  I ain’t even mad.

What isn’t fair is that this girl was assaulted and then this principal apparently wanted to do more damage. This woman is a DC school employee. The assault happened on school grounds. What, should this girl and her family roll over and say that they shouldn’t seek justice because it might hurt other students? This…

Paul Doucette, the chief of the Bennington Police Department, said he was not able to comment on the case, adding that he did not think the department had “done anything wrong,” according to the Times.

Lol. What, with no cameras around? It'll be a long wait.

“Stupid” is the wrong word.  In some sense he’s a genius at reading a certain kind of person and telling them what they want to hear.