I think this boils down to Bethenny worked very hard to be successful and Skinny Girl is her baby. She mentions it to Luanne one night out drinking (yes, I remember the episode not just because of flashbacks, but I’ve watched from day one and have loved Bethenny for day one) and on more than one occasion Luanne acts…

It’s either that, or moves to Big Sur or Joshua Tree for a while, discovers her inner Stevie Nicks, and comes back to Los Angeles and makes her California Record™.

Right. It comes from thinking the girl is somehow “ruined” once she’s had sex or been raped. Since all of her value is destroyed once her virginity is gone, someone has to take her off her fathers’ hands.

Well, I think we can end the debate and just declare that it isn’t about what’s best for teenagers, it’s about punishing the slutty teen (girls) for their slutty thoughts and actions.

That tends to happen when about 40 % of American teenagers don’t use condoms - compared to 4 % in other Western nations that actually educate high schoolers on sex, rather than peddle a religionist “abstinence only” agenda to them.

I sort of think that in this day and age it’s more about saving face in church (which is still disgusting). Some people carry around a surprising amount of baggage about that stuff. My (pretty chill) mother did a bunch of hand-wringing when my sister moved in with her longtime boyfriend two years ago because “what…

Think of it this way...this is an unusual story, people were punished for harming this girl, and the general consensus of people reading about it is one of disgust. That was not always the case. That is not the case in some parts of the world right now. Things are getting better, but slowly.

We are so overdue for a plague

Shit, this breaks my heart.

People who treat nature as their own personal canvas infuriate me.

The guy at the end of the bar = Peter King’s constituency, who love when other people are also needlessly offensive,* because damnit someone needs to stick up for America and the first amendment against the PC fascists!

It’s so disgusting to try to dehumanize women by describing sexual activities they (supposedly) engaged in, too. Notice she goes for (egads, gasp!) anal, here. The last taboo for the proper woman! ::eye roll::

“Jenji Kohan just cannot hold it together for more than a couple of seasons.”

It sucks, but you have to do it. Because if you don’t, it means that the DoJ doesn’t have any teeth. It’s like when huge companies go after tiny firms for trademark violations, because if they don’t then other companies can point to a history of not defending the trademark.

This mock outrage is nothing new.

The fact that you’re a former soldier and don’t see the difference between this and someone giving a nazi salute frightens the hell out of me.

You equating BLM with Nazism says all there is to know about you.

Yes. Mainly because that’s completely and obviously different.

There was an article in the New York Times a few weeks ago (also on a Saturday) about a young woman in the Bronx killed by her ex-husband with a knife with their two kids in the apartment. In the article they mentioned that the Bronx has a high incidence of domestic violence homicides. THIS is the danger American…

Yes. The thing is, we do need to fix “the system” and we do need to dramatically revolutionize our broken 2-party way of life in this country. If this election cycle has told us anything, its that, from people on both sides. I agree with almost everything Bernie is saying, but I can’t support him. The revolution is…