Yeah. The officer just said they "have no indication at this time" that it was a hate crime. They're not ruling out the possibility; they're just going by what their existing evidence suggests. The indignant, presumptuous tone in the article was not necessary. Just because a trans woman was murdered doesn't…

Well, exactly. It's in the police's best interest to be as vague and non-committal as possible with the press, especially this early into an investigation. Even if there were, say, a 99% chance that this woman was murdered because she was transgender and a 1% chance there was another motive, why say anything about the…

I'll play devil's advocate for just a moment. Just because a black trans woman was horrifically murdered, doesn't mean she was murdered because she was a black trans woman. People are murdered, burned, and dumped all the time for various reasons. Were her genitals targeted in some way? Because that'd be a glaringly…

"Do you typically see non-hate crime related homicides that end with burning the already dead body and then dumping it like worthless refuse in a garbage bin?"

It doesn't meet the legal definition for hate crimes, at least in my state (and from what I understand, we've actually got pretty serious hate crime laws compared to other states). They are misogyny-based, but the women weren't targeted because they were women so much as because the victim was a specific woman he felt…

That's great. I'm sure some of it is my fault (in the past 9 months anyway) for living in costly city and being insistent on living by myself, but there are a lot of people who absolutely have no room for it, and that's why I took to bitching about it, because I feel like people are always saying "You failed at being…

The idea that traveling for a summer gives you some great perspective on life is so dumb I want to pick up this column and beat you over the head with it. If you were pretentious asshole before you left, when you come back, you'll just be a pretentious asshole who went to Africa or Peru or China.

UGH. I KNOW. I actually had someone tell me that I "needed to get out more" when I mentioned that I had never been out of the country. I'm so sorry that I've been working since I was sixteen and cannot afford to take the time off my hourly wage jobs. At least growing up I felt "normal", but once I was at an Ivy League…

I also love the implication of "getting off the couch" like the rest of us are just lazy. Yes, I'm a grouchy commenter.

"This has never been more true than the time we live now: while money has and always will be an issue with traveling, the barrier of entry to get somewhere is so much lower than it used to be."

But when you're watching hardcore facefucking, you aren't necessarily watching two consenting adults who enjoy the act. As with Knox...watching that first scene she participated in would not have been watching a fully consenting adult who was receiving pleasure from the humiliation and pain.

What I don't get is how the "abuse" line of hardcore porn can be considered okay. Even professional wrestlers pretend to hit and choke each other. But this is full on beating of women, and equally as bad, psychological torture. I'm not saying the porn industry used to be wholesome or anything like that - it was always…

Jezebel really confuses me just a few days ago an article was posted about Terry being a "sexual predator" because his dick touched some woman's face, when she expressed her disinterest in engaging in sexual acts with him he did absolutely nothing to her and let her leave his studio. He was literally ripped to shreds…

I agree 100%. If men are consuming violent sexual acts constantly, it continues the fucking RAPE CULTURE. Why do you think young men are so angry at women today. I'll give you one hint:

Everyone is blowing this is off as some weird fetish-y thing and missing Mark's larger point: this is becoming normal. Let me repeat that again: hardcore, extreme and often dangerous sexual acts, overwhelmingly involving women, are becoming more and more normalized. Things that should be seasoned fetishes and…

she was being a nervous, whiny, self-conscious brat. that's what little 8-year-old girls are/do.

She always acts out when she's on a talk show or doing promotion type things. I think they make her deeply uncomfortable and since she's just a kid she doesn't really know how to act in those situations. Not making excuses for bad behavior, just saying that she isn't trained to behave the way a young Dakota Fanning…

This story is about something sad and ableist that happened to a little girl. I don't think it's appropriate to make this about pro vs. anti-pitbull people (I mean do whatever you want, but it's kind of a sad reaction to the story. It just ends in fighting in the comments). Besides, you will never change each…

Am I the only one who doesn't get Tom Hiddleston? He's very average. I haven't seen him in anything, though, so maybe something attractive happens when he acts.

To me the uniform dark haircuts just look like they're meant to resemble Perry's own hair, like the dancers are meant to be larger-than-life caricatures of herself.