I’m just glad we can finally focus on the real victim, his dad’s stash of pretzels.

“and that he will “never be his happy go lucky self [sic]” again.”

Or delete it and throw their computer screen out the window.

Does Briles not realize that it is impossible for him to be exonerated at this point? Even if it came out that he didn’t know or direct anything personally, it still means he didn’t know that members of his coaching staff were contacting victims, downplaying assaults, and obstructing investigations. He was either…

Uhh, I’m pretty sure the president of a fairly large and significant university has an administrative staff, some of whom would have access to his e-mail for the sole purpose of screening the messages that come in. Pretty sure that person would click the little red flag next to “I Was Raped At Baylor”

Ken Starr’s world:

Me too. It was tone deaf but well-intended.

You know, I feel bad for Debra Messing. I’m sure she’s sincere.

If my memory of thirteen year olds, boys especially, is remotely valid, aside from being deeply disturbing, this is wildly confusing.

Heavens forfend someone criticize a Third World culture...

If you’re culture routinely mutilates women to stop their sexual desires then your culture is, at it’s core, inferior and barbaric.

People do understand that. The issue is that it seems like a near impossible reality to separate legal sex work from all the seedy crime that follows it.

I completely agree. I just can’t say I’m a feminist and not take issue with the commodification of women’s bodies. Legalization doesn’t magically fix everything. This is one issue I part ways with many people on this site. We’d all like to picture empowered women going into sex with as a great choice- that could be…

This is why we can’t have nice things. Because people who disagree on a hugely contested complicated issue are “awful” people who write “bad” things.

Everything he’s saying applies to sex workers who are trafficked, coerced, or forced by desperate circumstances into an industry they don’t really want to be in, but it doesn’t apply to sex workers who are working safely, legally and by choice. To be fair to President Carter, there are more in the first category.…

I feel as though he’s coming from the right place. And unfortunately sex work is not something that has one easy answer. I fully support anyone who would CHOOSE this profession but the issue is that it is hard to separate those who didn’t from those who do. And keep people safe from being trafficked against their…

Yeah. At least he actually seems to care about the well-being of sex workers, which is a hell of a lot more than you’d get from any Republican.

I don’t think we should insult people for carefully thought out opinion pieces that slightly differ from our own opinions. This is a complex issue.

To be fair, there are a lot of feminists (especially from the previous wave) that would agree with him. So, calling what he is saying ‘awful’ probably isn’t fair. I don’t agree with what he’s saying, but that doesn’t make it awful. Awful is what Republicans do when they open their pieholes and pontificate about sex…

oh please anime be the next, that would be nice