My fear, as ever and as always with mandatory minimums in a white supremacist culture, is that the mere existence of them with respect to sexual assault will make it less likely for white rapists to even see the inside of a courtroom. That is: we’ll have to endure twice the amount of “their poor lives / futures”…

You could bring up the most unsavory, reprehensible people our society has to offer. I still don’t think it warrants making our criminal justice system more draconian.

ALEC is a far-right think tank behind, among other things, numerous Stand Your Ground and voter ID laws. FreedomWorks is a far-right organization heavily associated with the Tea Party. They’re about as unbiased and trustworthy as Breitbart.

So, the next time a 18 yo has sex with his 17 yo gf, he’ll face a 3 year minimum sentence. Great law and in no way the panic reaction of a legislature hounded by social media!

I agree simply because I’m not a fan of any law that limits a judge’s discretion. California especially has a well documented history of making laws as a knee jerk reaction that don’t do anything except overcrowd their jails.

I’m really conflicted about this. I think mandatory sentences are generally a terrible idea. I also think judges are going to continue to treat sexual assault as a harmless little non-crime in which the perpetrators are the true victims as long as they’re legally allowed to do so. I’m honestly not sure which is the…

No, they’re opposed to mandatory minimum sentencing laws, which are disproportionately used to incarcerate people of color.

Seriously though, what POSSIBLE good can come from putting a prostitute in prison? Can you think of a more counterproductive way of dealing that situation?

This is an example of a bad set of facts, and public outrage in search of a target, leading to a bad law.

one step short of saying he has to pay to be around beautiful women!

Also, fuck all men who treat women as prizes to be fought over and won. And fuck everyone who cheers on this barbaric behavior.

Definitely shade. I shrieked at my tv screen with joy.

Lol. My cat is half Siamese and sooooo chatty. We have a spray bottle on hand just to shut him up sometimes :)

sam irby is queen!

i cannot wait until i get to recount the halcyon days seeing her tell stories in the rain at the theatre on the lake. before there was a book, let alone a canon.

As far as I can tell, so far both Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer have been using their fame to produce awesome female driven projects and I freaking love it.

As someone who is a huge fan of early Burton (maybe up through Sleepy Hollow?)- you’re not telling me anything I don’t know. But just because you identify as more niche than “weird white people” doesn’t obviate the fact that he is basically saying that he makes movies about a certain subset of white people.

Okay but can we talk about how goth/punk/alternative subculture does have a race problem and it’s partially perpetuated by people like Tim Burton who make this a white people only thing. Hell, Gothic Beauty Magazine just put the first Black goth woman on the cover like 3 issues ago after years of hyper pale women…

“art-house-camp-goth-misfit movies.”

Attitudes like this are so fucking disconnected from reality. I have never once watched a film or tv show and thought “huh, this was great, except it was a little too diverse.” I cannot for the life of me understand why directors wouldn’t want to cater to (or at least pay lip service to) the 37% of America that…

There are catio kits online that you can buy. You can get little pop up catio tents if you want to go to the park. You can also walk to that park with your cat safely enclosed in her screen pram.