So you think everyone who sold alcohol during prohibition should have gone to jail? Slaves who ran away when slavery was legal should have gone to prison? Your mindless devotion to legality betrays an extremely simplistic mind.

Well we could also benefit from federally legal marijuana. To the toon of billions of dollars.

My former sister-in-law is a diehard Trump supporter. She’s also only 3 generations out of Mexico. I just want to shake her and be like “which side of the wall do you think you’re gonna end up on!?”

Jaywalking is a crime.

There was a story a few months ago (has it only been that long?) about a woman who voted for Trump whose husband got deported, and she said basically that exact same thing: ‘I only thought he was going to deport the bad ones.’

That and most probably think they would have been accepted into Yale if not for all of the “illegalz” stealing their spots.

But they’re totally not racist against Latinos, though... Just the “illegals”, their families, friends, anyone who looks like them...

Agreed. I’ve already started with my daughter. She’s 9. She knows her body and how it works / what will be changing in puberty, she knows the mechanics of sex and we’ve worked with her since toddlerhood on consent (no you don’t have to kiss grandma if you don’t want to, it’s your body.) I’m hoping that’s a solid…

Actually, having read Tarentino’s “apology,” I believe it is no such thing. I think the analysis at the Mary Sue blog is right on this. See this post on Tarentino:

Unfortunately this summer my husband had to take our 12 year old daughter and her friend aside at the beach and talk to them about it after he chased off a creeper older teen. Apparently the girls took it okay ( I wasn’t there-the teen “accidentally” touched one of the girls butt and then was “adjusting” himself) but…

Indeed.

Such a tough thing - you’re totally right and I felt the same as a teenage girl, that I just wish someone had been honest with me about all the bullshit and patriarchy I was encountering... I was just angry angry angry all the time, and being told to smile. Rage face.

We’re in a world where so far the only male in Hollywood who’s admitted the truth, that they (and likely everyone) knew but personally chose to do nothing because greed, and given anything resembling an apology is Tarantino, a man not exactly known for being “progressive”.

Amen. At 14, I would have actually loved it if an adult took me aside to talk to me about harassment and assault—because it was already happening to me and I had no words for it and no validation for my anger at it. If anything, I’d err on the side of bringing up the topic too early.

“That’s pretty depressing. Adults are explaining Harvey Weinstein to 14-year-olds right now.” This is disheartening in that adults shouldn’t have to explain it because it never should have happened. But 14 year olds, especially girls and gender minorities, but honestly any 14 year old working in show business, are…

Or Flint Michigan water.

I suppose they still have to continue what they are paid to do, tracking the US’s weather local and afar.

I don’t understand. Trump gave them some paper towels and said everything is bigly great there and he did a great job and also what’s Puerto Rico?

We now live in a world where the hardest-hitting coverage of important world events comes from The Fucking Weather Channel.

The headline is misleading. It should be “The Weather Channel *website*”