She doesn't know that I've called an Emergency Meetings of All Black People. We are drafting a contract that any white person must sign before any of us get busy:

I just saw an article (I think in the Christian Science Monitor) about how law enforcement is looking more and more at going after johns and pimps, as opposed to sex workers. This is an idea that has re-circulated from way back when. I remember in the 80s, where I lived in Southern Florida, there was a big push to go…

I will buy your book, Jolie. Because I read your column and you are the only breath of fresh (snark-free and still compelling to read) air in all of Gawker media.

Goddamn, I am so sorry.

I'm SO SORRY. That is the most horrible thing in the world. I hope you are in a much better place in your life and I am sending you love from an imaginary internet stranger.

your post just broke my heart. I hope you are doing well.

When I was trafficked as a 12-year-old, the impression I got was that the men though that as long as they were paying for it, it was commerce and they weren't responsible for any illegalities or breaches of ethics - the person doing the selling was 100% responsible for that. They were just poor hapless consumers who…

According to a Coldwell Banker Housing Report last year, Malibu is more expensive than Vancouver. A 4 bed/2 bath house in Malibu would be over $2m while a home of similar size would be about $950K in Vancouver http://hlr.coldwellbanker.com/

Rape charges are generally aggravated when the victim is a child, but this description doesn't list the exact charges, and different degrees of rape are often referred to colloquially by the general heading.

THANKS KINJA. I hadn't planned to comment on this, but the rape charges can encompass that even more severely without making it too hard on the victim during trial.

Mine was 15 days ago! If I drag the boyfriend to the courthouse this afternoon, I could be basically on time! "Listen, baby, I know we don't want to get married, and the idea of being legally bound to someone makes my skin crawl, because I am shifty and whatnot, but we must do this FOR THE SAKE OF PUNCTUALITY."

:( Everyone knows the Flying Spaghetti Monster was made incarnate in a food fight in a school cafeteria. You can try to ban his image, but he will be made manifest again, in righteous air born food rage.

Bravo rubysecret, my work brings me into contact with a lot of adoptive families and some of those kids have real issues—generally, the older the child at the time of the adoption, the more likely issues are. And they just don't disappear—thus, the rate of failed adoptions. While I get how people are upset about…

Some of it is socially constructed too. A child who has been raised in an institution for several years has missed out on a lot of parent-child interaction and nurturing. Sometimes it's hard to catch up (and remember this was decades ago before a lot of the targeted therapeutic interventions that are available now.)

Thanks. I know families like this as well, and I, for one, would like to see a little more evidence if there are going to be accusations of "collecting," or "white-savior syndrome," etc.

As for the "they never lived together" question, they kept separate apartments blocks away from each other. If I was a woman with 9 children (at the time I think) I would BEG my boyfriend to keep his apartment, if for no other reason than to have a place for us to go where there were not 9 children. (My ex and I were…

The following quote (regarding Soon Yi) doesn't make any sense and should be corrected. "(The history of Soon-Yi's biological mother as a prostitute is as pointed as it is confusing. According to Mia, Soon-Yi was found eating out of garbage cans on the streets and spoke "no known language, only gibberish." How then,…

A lot of adopted children will have behavior issues, whether you're rich or poor. The nine months you spend in womb can shape your life. If your bio mother is stressed, unhealthy, depressed, etc., it can cause you to have mental illness, addiction problems, etc. Mia also adopted a lot of children with disabilities.…

Is there a reason to post Dylan's name changes? Is this clickbait or are Jez editors so in love with Woody Allens films they have to dox an abuse survivor?

Sure zoos can do more when it comes to conservation, management, etc.