You take pictures of random people so that your friends can rate them? That’s pretty fucking creepy.

This reminds me of a quote I saw online a while back that said “Do something to do it, not to have done it” which I took to mean people should care more about the moment they’re in instead of always focusing so heavily on capturing it for future reference. This isn’t a cold-hard stance and I capture unique experiences…

You are murderable. There is no reason to expect not to be murdered. You should just accept it and be murdered.

There’s a difference between a snap and taking several in sequence & ”reporting” on you when you are just going about your business. Not to mention sharing it on some platform where it will get thousands if not millions of shares sometimes even ending up on international news...all this cause some dick has decided…

I see a couple of armchair lawyers trying to suggest your right to take pictures in public is completely unfettered. That is actually not correct.

I’d be most concerned about my contacts’ information. And my Lyft app has a lot of information about my whereabouts that law enforcement doesn’t just get wholesale access to if they’re looking for info about someone else. Otherwise, it’ll finally be revealed to law enforcement how often I enter the Hamilton lottery,…

To quote 17th century French statesman Cardinal Richelieu:

You’re failing to grasp the distinction between legally allowable and ethically defensible.

If police are trying to find a reason to detain someone, they might choose to interpret texts and emails in very specific ways. But aside from that, anyone with nudes on their phone has a good reason to keep that shit locked up.

There is a difference between having an expectation of privacy and wanting your picture posted to social media by strangers. If you don’t understand the difference please smash your phone against your forehead repeatedly until you break it.

And please have a friend film you doing so and post it everywhere.

This is the exact wrong take.

Just because you CAN post a photo of someone who’s out in public doesn’t mean you should. We’ve also run pieces about street photography encouraging people to ask permission before snapping a pic of someone. 

To proactively respond to anyone who says “I don’t care if my picture gets out there” please post a clear full body pic in this thread along with your current city/state.

Seemingly? This hot take is an extremely bad take. Don’t dismiss facts just because you don’t care for the politics of the source.

I do not believe a child is misguided enough to interpret what is happening to a dog that talks as something that could possibly be happening to them.

The way these scenes were described were almost exactly what I went through as a kid by my abuser. “this is normal, just relax. This is how it’s done, you’re fine, think of something else.”

I was expecting to see an article here about this, but this is not the tone I imagined.
How do you not see the problem with teaching kids that “it’s ok if someone wants to touch your genitals, just go to your happy place”?

I’m really surprised that you took such a neutral stance in this report. As a survivor of incestual sexual abuse, I can say there was a TON of ambiguity in my child brain about what was right and what wasn’t, especially as I suffered at the hands of a trusted family member. This is absolutely grooming and is SO SO…

Kids, especially very young ones, emulate what they see in movies. They identify with Lightning McQueen, who’s a car for crying out loud, and want to be brave like Nemo. It’s not a particularly funny joke (as in, it’s dumb and unoriginal) and I can absolutely see a kid who’s experienced some form of sexual abuse…

“I do not believe a child is misguided enough to interpret what is happening to a dog that talks as something that could possibly be happening to them.”