Thank you! I was looking for this exact sentiment.

...But of course, even then, their ~punishment~ has been entirely a matter of business and social consequences. Because for insanely powerful celebrities, their concept of “losing everything” just means an indefinite (entirely-possibly temporary!) halt to their gains and a significant decrease in popularity.

Always tough to be a pioneer!

Eh, that’s a bit of subtext that is never fully explored or realized. It’s not even really critical of the police. It’s critical of a system in which police are easy to infiltrate. Those are basically throw away story beats to explain why Yuri is so willing to operate on her own. 

Their communications are friendly but also imply that they aren’t representative of how the police force as a whole perceives Spidey.

It’s been clear since the word go that Williams treatment is different because she is a dominant black female player. Consider that she is randomly tested for steroids several times the rate of other similar players.

But it’s unfathomable to think of referees boycotting, say, LeBron James’ games over a testy exchange.

What about John Barron!?

Having been a clinic escort for 14+ years, I can tell you we rarely bother to report stuff because the cops won’t do anything. It gets exhausting for us and having cop cars at the clinic is stressful for patients, so it has to be something major for us to call the police.

As a 33 year old, I appreciate that I have an age appropriate celebrity crush.

You’re not a child anymore. The world is no longer wide open to you.

Sure he does. George KFC Bucket.

He out there in high school lookin’ like a grown-ass man. lol

No one really cares what cops want to do, they care about what cops actually do.

Does anyone look good coming out of this story?

Yeah, it makes a...warped amount of sense? And if you combine it with his resentment of Obama, it totally makes sense. This is a reality show to him and the ultimate popularity contest - that he won makes him very happy, but he becomes furious when confronted with any of the realities and limitations of his new…

6th grade, first boyfriend ever. We went out for a month, then he broke up with me. I was fine, just excited to have had my first boyfriend.

6th grade. Elementary school. I was “going out” with a guy named Paul for about a month. He would walk me home from school everyday. One day we’re walking out of school and this other kid walks up to us and says “hey, I want to walk her home.” A fight ensues. They’re beating each other up. Really going at it. I’m…