Yup, this threw me off the whole time. Enjoyed seeing her on screen but her character makes no sense other than to basically pull off whatever nonsensical plot twist the writers couldn’t actually think their way through.

I want to note:

Why aren’t the NRA folks rioting over this? A responsible gun owner did everything you’re supposed to do but was killed.

She gave me her heart and I sent her a dick.

Then the Church needs to stop taking people’s money if it doesn’t want to listen to people.

Be honest. You get a sick thrill from being roasted in comments sections, don’t you?

Church stops telling people who and how to fuck, people will stop bring their fucking-related issues to church.

Hopefully this will open her eyes to the absurdity of believing in an invisible sky-god. Hopefully this will reveal to her the deep-seated bigotry and hatred that underlies the vast majority of religions. Hopefully this will make her realize that what they preach is not what they practice. Hopefully she will go on…

My students do not have meaningful memories of the AIDS crisis at its highest pitch — before the “cocktail” treatment was introduced in the 90s, for sure, HIV/AIDS was an automatic death sentence with a very short horizon. So I have to explain things like ACT UP, Larry Kramer, etc. It’s not as if AIDS went away, of…

For Brother Bob, I naturally assumed the same. That this was his brother. They said that he would bring in cops and politicians to do things to the girls, too. Again, I assumed that one of those cops was his brother. Maskell seemed like someone who was really good at getting people to do things they didn’t want to do.…

This was SO GOOD. I want Abbie & Gemma to have their own detective show a la Cagney & Lacey.

I think they figured he was a priest, so he must be naive, and told him it was her vagina in the bag. He seemed genuinely freaked out by it even now.

Newsflash: It is actually possible to love your child and be there physically and emotionally for them even if you don’t understand or even approve of the choices they make. When you love your child more than you love your own prejudices amazing things can happen.

She could have been holding a knife because she was barbecuing in the backyard! She could have been holding a knife because she was afraid of the burglar she called them about (yes, mental issues, I know, but...)! IT’S NOT ILLEGAL TO HOLD A KNIFE.

Could we get an edit on that headline and remove the word “captured”? She was a young girl, not an escaped convict or an animal that needed to be picked up somewhere. She was not captured. She was abducted. She was kidnapped and murdered.

Yet detectives state that they have “not gotten any indication that this was motivated by hate or bias.”

I found out about this from my dad. After having dinner with him, he sent me and my sister a text saying he loves us and not to go anywhere alone for the next few days.

Wait - so they are arresting people who were illegally trafficked here? As in, people who are the victims of trafficking are being arrested for being here illegally when the real criminals are the people who trafficked them???

I feel like these people have been trained to view their work like some super hyped up action movie or video game. There seems to be such a disconnect from normal empathy and reasoning. It’s heartbreaking (not for them, for the people they view as part of a scorecard).

Beautifully described; thank you.