I mean, they’ve done awareness campaigns about it. I’m pretty sure they know it happened.

Dude, I’m impressed Katie Couric (or anyone) can do that, and sustain it for that long. I would fall on my tailbone within 5 seconds, if I could get up there at all.

I hear you. I guess my thinking is that poverty and malnutrition are ultimately products of exploitative and wasteful economic and social policies. I know you’re advocating for more choices for women, and not for population control/eugenics kind of stuff, but I’ve heard so many people basically say “poor people need…

I mean, I’m all for informed family planning, but no, it’s not like those ills would be solved by just.. not having as many kids.

But it’s important to acknowledge their complicity and how that essentially made any real punishment impossible. As in, because they covered up the abuse and fostered an environment where abuse could happen, the statute of limitations had passed by the time it came to light. So no, they couldn’t put him in prison, but…

Yeah, it’s the kind of sex that’s normalized through porn that some people find troubling. I think sex is generally considered pretty normal/obligatory for adult romantic relationships.

Only like, half of America votes in the Presidential elections. Maybe we should work on that instead of guilting people who feel miserable/unsafe in their hometowns into staying there.

Idk who this is but I LOVE her hair color.

California is fucking enormous and various. You could absolutely find a studio for that in parts of LA County or the Central Valley. Probably up by Humboldt area too. No, you’re not going to find that deal in the bay or in any major city center here, but CA does not have a monopoly on the US housing crisis.

I mean, if you see pictures of her as a young teenager (shes 15 here) she really doesn’t look that different. Those lips are real. I agree that her beauty has been prolonged and a little augmented, but surgery can only get you so far.

It’s not a “much grayer area” at ALL? He had hours to contemplate whether he should fuck a 15 year old girl, it’s not like he got there and they said “surprise! she wasn’t 19” A mentally healthy adult would have stepped away from that situation without hesitation and it’s honestly disturbing that you don’t seem to…

I mean, it does. It can be scary and alienating to ask for that help from therapists and psychiatrists, but attraction to minors is not criminalized - acting on it is. They’re mandated reporters to the extent that someone is an imminent and credible threat to themselves or the people around them, but that’s a reality…

First it was “she lied about her age” then it was “well okay yeah then he tried to fuck her anyway but um 15 is okay is most places” Keep moving that goal post pal!

It kind of feels like you’re talking about a different issue than what this case is about? This isn’t like those cases with an 18-19 year old dating an almost 18 year old. This is a 38 year old man knowingly soliciting a 15 year old.

I was really only responding to the idea that his statements were an actionable, illegal threat against President Obama - which they are not. I still definitely think he should not have said... any of the things he said.

I mean his statements are repugnant but I don’t really see how it can be construed as a threat, unless you think he’s going to force Obama to have sex with a cow.

I know it’s dumb but I’m still sad that Brad and Angelina broke up.

criminalizing HIV transmission is actually a huge part of why the disease is such a social stigma. It’s sort of circular logic, isn’t it? And it’s lead to situations where people are sent to prison for spitting on law enforcement when HIV positive. Seriously.

30 years is an outrageous sentence. I certainly hope he doesn’t get the maximum next time.

30 years is unequivocally too harsh a sentence.