Just really excited and amazed to see how this story has brought out all the hidden gorilla, animal behavior, and wildlife experts lurking around the world. Who knew so many hundreds of thousands of people had advanced degrees and such years of dedication and experience in working in this field?

I was thinking about that. A reassuring hug from the gorilla probably would have broken every rib and could have fatally crushed him. I don’t understand why trying to understand the gorilla serves any purpose, other than to muddy the waters and focus blame.

Assuming Cincinatti Zoo is a quality zoo, and not some dodgy backwater full of corruption and mistreatment, I will trust the keepers’ snap decision. It can’t have been an easy one, but had to be immediate.

Keep seeing this “The gorilla was being kind!” reaction.. Are people just not seeing the part where he grabbed the child by the foot and dragged him through the water repeatedly?

As a sexworkers myself, I’ll tell you sexwork is a lot like serving coffee naked from your own independent coffee cart, assuming you’ve chosen the profession. Some customers are better than others, but you’re in charge so you can refuse to serve anyone you want and roll your cart away at any time.

That’s a better way to put it. Either way, this is really unfairly written, which is disappointing because Anna is usually such a conscientious writer;

As a former sex worker, I don’t understand what is so hard for people to understand. We want our work to be legal, but pimping and human trafficking to be illegal.

This was the traditional feminist line not that long ago, so it doesn’t surprise me.

Yes, I feel like he is right about the issue but off the mark on how to solve it.

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.…

And unfortunately if you look at countries with legalized sex work sex trafficking has not disappeared... it’s just easier to hide. There are more men who want to buy sex than there are women willing to sell sex, and there are awful people willing to take advantage of that.

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…

If he hadn’t referred to her as a ‘supermodel’ as though that is what she is primarily known for and her entryway into acting and super shady and talked about how she isn’t an authentic, ‘proper film actor’ (like Adam Levine!!!), which she clearly is, one could maybe claim that they just didn’t get along, but based on…

The report somewhere else states that the car cut off the motorcycle.

The article says FHP did catch the guy.

I have a feeling Mr Depp does not care for dentists and hasn’t been to one in years. He never opens his mouth and shows his teeth on screen (that I can remember). He does this pouty closed mouth thing.

He’s a tank top away from being Faces Of Meth man of the year.

Lol I know I’m not the word police. Thanks for the lesson about English usage though, super helpful! I had NO idea that English was spoken by ‘millions of people of all ages and genders all over the world’!

My husband and I do that too. Usually super sarcastic, like when it rained today and our gutter overflowed... thanks Obama. Birds that wake us up at 4 AM... Thanks Obama.