Don't we all commodify ourselves if we work? That doesn't mean anyone is allowed to treat you with disrespect.

Younger women are coveted by men of all social strata. If a very attractive woman is going to go with an older guy it's likely because he is more financially secure than she is. That doesn't mean he is wealthy, just more stable/established than she is.

But that's not specific to drug lords. That's just life...in Hollywood there's George Clooney and his model du jour, Paul McCartney and his last couple wives, Alec Baldwin and his wife Hilaria, Michael Douglas and CZJ... Then of course there are successful men in other industries...

Aren't the hash browns the same one's you can buy at the grocery store? The rectangle shape with the rounded edges? I guess they deep fry their's so there's that, I guess...

She's a grown woman so I'm not sure how strangers on the internet can stop her. I do, however, suspect that her behavior may be a manifestation of mental illness.

I simply took issue with Mark's assertion that there isn't anything "inherently wrong" with a grown woman trying to turn into an inanimate object. I think there is a LOT wrong with that. But you are free to disagree, of course. Some people think it's great, some people think it's possibly a sign of mental illness…

We will have to agree to disagree. I spend my professional life running a non-profit which cares very deeply about the choices others make in their lives. So I care what people do; I care a lot.

IMO, it takes someone who can take education and the attainment of knowledge for granted who would actually pay someone to make them dumber. For a group of people who society already considers intellectually inferior (Black Americans) and for whom the right to literacy and education was a hard-fought battle (and…

That's lovely for you. But don't presume to know what my family thinks. They aren't into the "Do Whatever Makes You Happy" philosophy. Far from it.

For one thing Spitzer was the the chief legal advocate for the State of New York and prostitution is illegal in New York. Prosecuting others for something you do routinely is hypocrisy at its worst.

Nope. My parents would absolutely crack up at that assertion. Like, they'd literally start laughing at that. They didn't work 6 to 7 days a week so I would have the freedom to "be me" or whatever nonsense you're talking about. They busted their asses so I could go to college, which neither of them had the chance to…

We've known each other for about a decade. We know each other really well. Enough for her to know that I'm not the one to come looking for a high-five when you tell me your Black BF wants you to degrade him like a slave in bed. She didn't use good judgment in telling me and expecting me to laugh and pat her on the…

Of course it's her choice to do with her body what she wants to do. Who is saying it's not her choice? I haven't read one comment that she should be involuntarily committed or anything...

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Absolutely not. No. 100 times NO.

My point is that only someone who takes education/the attainment of knowledge for granted would pay someone actual US currency to make them "dumber." When your family members were denied to right to learn to read and to be educated you are less likely to take education so lightly. People actually gave their lives so I…

She was laughing while telling me and it seemed like she wanted me to have a hearty laugh with her about how weird it is. In that convo she relayed to me how hot and amazing their sex life is so she didn't seem embarrassed, nor should she be. It was just odd that she wanted me to think her slave/master sex play was…

I don't care about the act; people do what they do behind closed doors. But telling her Black female friend that she treats her Black BF as a slave during sex and expecting me to chuckle and high-five her? I think that because it involves sex some people expect others to automatically think it's awesome and great.…

But it involves sex so EVERYTHING IS A-OK AND TOTALLY LEGIT B/C WHATEVER GETS PEOPLE OFF IS AWESOME!!!

THANK YOU for saying this. I'm Black, my friend Dana is White and her BF is Black. At brunch a couple months ago she started telling me—-over my veggie omelette and coffee—-how her man loves for her to call him the N-word during sex and to "simulate whipping him like a slave." We're close, we've spoken about sex…