Serious question. Is every manifestation of feather headdress appropriation? Because this just looks like a grouse costume. I know it’s easier to err on the side of caution. But I feel like musical festival go-ers really really want their feathers.

Family law attorney here. The court is obligated to weigh the best interests of the children. That is the determining factor. Here, and in pretty much every case, it is in the best interests of the children to spend as much time as possible with each parent. In this case, the parents do not live in the same place, so…

Her lawyer tipped them to...something. In the Statement of Decision the judge discusses the issue at some length:

They explain this pretty clearly in the 2013 ruling: Kelly’s worst-case scenario with the France plan is the same as Daniel’s best-case scenario with the NYC plan, and Kelly’s the parent with a track record of interfering with visitation. When you add in the shenanigans about the visa and the fact that the kids…

This is what confuses people about this case: there’s a 2012 custody ruling that E!’s got, and then there’s the 2013 ruling that I believe is an appeal of the 2012 ruling: http://harris-ginsberg.com/wp-content/upl…

Check out the Oct 2013 ruling, which I believe is the result of an appeal of the 2012 ruling that E! has: http://harris-ginsberg.com/wp-content/upl…

It’s not clear, during the many years they were together, that Hope had meaningful work—not consistently, anyway, not as benefitting someone with an Ivy League education and multiple graduate degrees.

Remember the woman in Washington state who reported being raped, and was tried and convicted of fing a false report, purely because the police didn’t believe her? And then, about a year later, the police caught a serial rapist who kept photographs of all his victims, and he had a photograph of her.

I’m the author of this article, and I’d like to write in response to the biggest issue commenters seem to have with it: the 2-8% statistic.

We always seem to present things as “innocent until proven guilty” vs “believe the victim”, but that’s really a false dichotomy. I have no problem with our judicial system setting a high bar for conviction, even in cases of rape/sexual assault. What I have issue with is that so few reports are even taken seriously…

Hey, remember the time Gawker Media decided to do a series of false rape accusations against James Franco for clicks? Good times good times http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-womack/j…

Now hey, get back to trying to lecture us about the very shit you do for a living.

People can’t even bother to put on a condom at times... you think they’re going to use their phones?

Eagerly awaiting all the people with poor reading comprehension who will see that Jezebel posted an essay on false allegations and immediately assume we are arguing that they are unimportant/nonexistent (despite this entire essay being written to say the opposite)—but I mainly came down here to say that I thoroughly…

Eh. This is one issue where I diverge greatly from feminists on, probably due to my ethnicity. As a black man in America, I just can’t be so dismissive of the the existence of false allegations of rape and the impact that they have when they occur. Many an African-American man in the early-mid 20th century ended up…

Wow, I wrote my BA thesis on Love, Fear, and Rape in Ovid’s Metamorphosis! It’s so cool to see someone’s take who’s spent so much more time on this! It can be SO hard to put Greek or Roman mythology into any kind of modern context, or to use it to exemplify historical trends, and this is done so expertly. Usually when…

THE COMMENT SECTION IS AMAZING

oh god this post is perfect yes yes yes.

THIS IS THE JOKE YOU GUYS

oh brother.

I will “exalt sex workers” all day long, if you mean “allow that some of them are human beings with free will who’ve chosen sex work.” As for people who do not choose sex work, but enter it through trafficking, coercion or economic hardship, I’ll put this part of the letter in again, in case you missed it: