“The costume drama, the argument goes, was once a reliable straight adaptation where sex was a mere afterthought, less valued than a lovingly accurate depiction of either source material or subject matter.”

A. Putting someone in solitary for attempting suicide is batshit crazy behavior, and is utterly common across the prison system.

It just comes back to, “Do you feel that prisoners deserve basic human rights?” If so, Mannings treatment should offend you, if not, then it shouldn’t.

Ok, 14 days in solitary confinement (which has been proven to make inmates suicidal) to punish an inmate for a suicide attempt. Makes sense.

Why do people still obsess over this case? How many non-rich, non-white girls have been murdered in the 20 years since, and where are their TV specials? I’m very interested in true crime stories, but this one has just always made me feel very, very icky.

This is not the time for this. This was the same sick argument used when Liang killed Akai Gurley in New York, why are we pressing charges against the Asian cop when black people get killed by white cops all the time with no consequence. This argument makes me sick, at the end of the day, claiming that women should…

This is not to suggest that everything’s kosher. Quite the opposite. But Shelby is not a victim because she’s a woman. White male officers are more often charged and successfully convicted of committing violent crimes while on duty or under the cover of law for the simple reason that they more often commit these…

You’re not wrong to say this smells funny, but there is no way to separate this into one part “serious racial discrimination” and one part “less so, but still serious gender discrimination” without reducing the former. Let’s not reduce this. Not one bit.

Would it be just as funny if a male teacher had said that?

As a parent myself and the child of someone who taught teenagers for 35 years, I can atest that kids are often difficult to terrible. However, I’d say this awful dipshit should be stripped of her teachers license immediately. She clearly lacks the temperament to deal with humans in general, much less kids.

I generally think demanding that high school teachers protect the delicate ears of their students is laughable (many of my best high school teachers could only go about 1.5 periods without swearing and “it’s debate not masturbate” is the best thing I’ve heard all day), but this woman didn’t just swear, she went…

Sorry, this teacher isn’t cool and this topic isn’t funny. I’ve taught college for 15 years, and I wouldn’t say this to 18 year olds, much less 10th graders. You’re in an immense position of power as a teacher. It’s really important not to mock your students. I had one teacher in HS who consistently made fun of…

ISIS has been truthful, as far as that goes, about what it has ordered or directly inspired. They haven’t taken random credit for unrelated acts of violence. I wonder why we (in this comment section) are so unwilling to accept their and the attacker’s own words on this.

It wouldn’t be Jez if someone couldn’t slip in a Trump slam in every comment now would it?