Yeah, like I said, they should be paid a minimum wage. Treated like employees. I'm with you.

Yeah, sure. Because when has a minimum wage employee ever been screwed on overtime or benefits?

""Hi, I'm plain in feature and certainly overweight, and I'm here to pick up my dry cleaning."

Being pretty and thin IS the accomplishment!

You think those are the same?

"She sure was fat and ugly, although astonishingly it appears she was valued by some people nonetheless!"

Your comment would be a lot more valid if you didn't feel the need to point out that people can "help being fat" (which is also, 'on the whole', not true, and completely irrelevant either way). If it were true it wouldn't make this anywhere near OK, and everyone is as outraged by the 'plain of feature' bit as the…

"Somehow in spite of not being ultra-fuckable in the eyes of most, she opted not for suicide (a common and understandable reaction to her plight) but instead to not give a fuck about it and go accomplish great things instead. How she found the strength to endure in the face of the harsh reality of not being a vector…

not a hottie, but still somehow valuable, somehow...like SOMEHOW she did it guys. weird, wacky stuff.

Lately I've been dealing pretty directly with my own psychological scars from being bullied almost daily for about 10 years of my childhood/adolescence — being constantly told that I was ugly. And this was before I gained 60-70 pounds and also became "certainly overweight" besides "plain of feature." Besides the…

See this is what goes through my head every time I have a job interview and they can't get me out of their offices fast enough. It's not my qualifications, they love those, that's what got me in the door. It is my appearance, and they just can't reconcile fatter (older) woman with competent person. So they'll hire a…

Just imagine what she could have accomplished if she were pretty and thin. Just imagine. Just imagine …

Oh god, ugh ugh ugh.

Never mind the whole Boston bombers poem.

first off, her name is Amanda Fucking Palmer and second, what do you expect from a Ghomeshi apologist?

It is awful and that is part of the reason that this is important news. Canada may not be the US and we may not have a Ferguson yet but we have a big problem when it comes to law enforcement and race relations.

yes. It is and there is deep rooted systemic racism and classism at the root of it. If these primarily First Nations and Inuit communities were given the same resources and respect that any southern rural municipality was given, such as a stable police force that reflected the cultural and ethnic make-up of the…

Sorry, I should have said what I said in another comment. People, of all races and genders, treat WOC worse than white women.

"Probably Inuit."

Men of colour, just like white men, treat women of colour worse than they treat white women. There's just a general idea out there that there are less or no consequences for treating WOC poorly. Doesn't matter if he's Inuit or not. I'd bet money that the same officer would have treated a white woman differently.