Fully agreed. Certain crimes, when convicted, the community really should know about.

Chiming in with Missy to agree and add that Blatchford's relevance to most of us locals dropped very low when she moved from a left/centrist paper to one of the most right-wing papers going. She's an asshole windbag who deserves obscurity.

That's what kills me—if a minor is convicted, I think that minor's name should be published, even if only in cases where the victim has given consent to have their name known as well. It seems like there are only two reasons to shield the identity of a convicted minor: to protect their victim, or to protect the minor…

*nods* I think what made it click for me was when I thought, "wow, he has beautiful eyes...JUST LIKE MY GRANDPA'S DDDD:"

I'm not going to judge. I think it's primarily a construct, a societal more mostly based on squick. *shrug* I never saw any of the cousins I grew up with as attractive, so I think there's really something to the GSA theory.

I'm with you as well. As someone who's only been watching football for a couple of years, it encourages me to watch the plays more closely, and see if what I think I'm seeing is actually flagged. I love when I get it right ^_^

*lol* Definitely won't be doing so; I'm happily married, and would prefer to keep it that way :)

I admit, when my aunt introduced me to her son, who she'd given up for adoption about three years before I was born, my first thought was "homina homina" because he was definitely an attractive guy, but yeah, the overriding voice in the back of my head was "STOP THAT HE'S YOUR FIRST COUSIN AND THAT'S SUPER WEIRD".

Hey, Colts management: If your player's been charged with rape, then that's a good start in terms of relevant facts. Bench him, at the very frigging least.

Imagine what might happen if a bunch of us sang Joni Mitchell songs while menstruating. The Vatican might implode.

I hope you're right. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt :)

Damn skippy. You might see ankles!

If that happens, I'm making a pilgrimage. I have a pink and black polkadot bra that's pretty worn out that I'd be happy to donate to the cause.

The irony is that, for all his insistence that the Catholic church is liek, totally equal and stuff, y'all!, girls were banned from the altar again after only a few years in many dioceses around where I live, because the new bishop felt girls were too distracting.

Ladies! Is there anything we can't ruin? *high fives*

It gives me hope when I hear about parents teaching their sons enthusiastic consent. Thank you for being a good parent.

Shit. Busted. Okay, I'm going to go set fire to my husband's testicles now while I rant at him about how his penis is an implicit oppression of me.

Mock, you're a bad father and it sounds like you raised a rapist.

Amal is awesome, with or without Clooney. Griffin sounds like sour grapes, making comments like that.

It's porn for people who aren't comfortable with admitting they enjoy porn :P