Well, it doesn't have any precedent as far as I know, but it is a television show, so I think the writers can make things up in order to make the plot interesting.

In the article the author writes:

From the article:

If demonstrations and protests didn't inconvenience people, they would be invisible, and it would defeat the whole purpose of protesting.

I've tried to suggest that this "circle jerk" (to borrow your apt term) over this case and this decision is a meaningless piling-on of people pointing at people they don't like and going "look at how raaaacist they are! At least we aren't like that, right guys?!" It's all to prove one's "not-racist" credentials by…

If that is your reading, then you have misread me. I can't sit here and reiterate what I made plain in my original comment, but you're miscomprehension of my statements is bordering on wilful as you really want to create an argument you can refute. You've made some impressive leaps from my words to your summary, and…

No one is advocating a perfect solution here. If we're playing the fallacies game, that is a straw man. I am saying that this misplaced attention and obsession with this case could be harnessed to do more good than the prosecution of one individual. I'm not arguing about individual perceptions of safety, I have…

You don't need to condescend to me because you disagree with me, you know.

In both your example and this case, it wouldn't demonstrate that black/female lives "matter", it would demonstrate that the law is equipped to punish individual in accordance to what society deems a criminal act. In this case, the law is insufficient to punish Zimmerman for needlessly taking the life of a young man -…

I have, however, been told on MULTIPLE occasions—daily, really, when I lived in the Bay Area, how I was a "white bitch" who "deserved to be raped" and who was responsible for all things evil that happen to black men.

You've caught a lot of flack for this comment, but I want to tell you that you are spot on.

I do have an honest quibble with your statement here. Do you think that a guilty verdict would have demonstrated that black lives do matter in the United States? This was a criminal case brought against one individual for his actions towards another individual, and he walked because of insufficient laws and…

I don't see anything in our generation that suggests we will be able to "fix" all of these problems. As many young people lean right as lean left, and many lean libertarian, and many are apathetic. This generation is just as self-absorbed, uninformed, and unrealistic as the generations that preceded us, and we will…

What, specifically, has she changed about television?

I don't know...

Charles Saatchi was caught on camera forcefully wrapping his hands around his wife's throat. He now claims, with no corroborating evidence that doing so is acceptable because Nigella did it to him at some unspecified time. At the very least, two wrongs don't make a right (and I highly doubt there are two wrongs in…

No worries. Thanks for sharing your perspective!

If they flat out refuse because they have serious anxieties in clinical settings, even in the waiting room, I'd accept it. If they refuse because they do not or cannot (and in the US, often it is the latter) take time off work, I'd be okay with it. If they refused because they wanted to give me some privacy and felt…

Agreed.

I'm with you on this one, to the extent that every couple can have their own dynamic with medical procedures and whatnot. The author shouldn't be shaming partners who, for whatever reason, don't want to go. Some people have serious aversions to clinical settings and anxiety problems, others may wish to respect the…