Alright, but can we not use the term ‘blackface’. This is cultural appropriation (and probably some white saviorism), but blackface refers specifically with the desire to make fun of the stupid and childish bafoonery of black people. I don’t think she was trying to get us to laugh at those people, I think she was…

I really think she’s just trying to show off her make up skillz. She has as little ‘awareness’ of the portraits she's copying as we do.

I mostly agree with you, but can we stop using ‘blackface’ for anytime a white person puts another complexion on their skin. Blackface is very specifically a form of minstrelsy meant to make a mockery of black people - and to create a simple and bafoonish caricature to make fun of. While this smacks of some hard…

The bachelor of what?

I mean, yeah, you're correct. He most certainly did rape her... If it were in the real universe. But this is in some alternate universe where I don't have to be outraged at the implications or horrified by the consequences because it exists in a world of kink and play and I will REVEL IN IT! I DONT GIVE A…

There is no genetic predisposition, but a psychological one. It's drugs, drugs make addicts out of *anyone*. We are all potential addicts given the right trigger.

Wow. Context, child. Please read again... And if you won’t listen to what the other posters said about your own out of context partial quote, and you don’t know what Game of Thrones is, then you’ll also need a refresher course on current pop culture as well. I think you left the outrage machine running a little too…

Yes. Seriously.

No. No one said that. You just have three words of a partial quote in a quoted article. Good luck!

Weird. Your comments don’t follow any sort of logic. Now you’re talking about hedge funds? And minimum wage workers? You’re all over the place. I really don’t see what this has to do with paparazzi or how much an actor gets paid (which already weren't related).

That is a really weird attitude. Nobody forced paparazzi to work in their chosen profession (which requires thousands of dollars of equipment). If actors are making too much money for the work they do, it's hardly their fault, nor is it their obligation to share it with anyone. That said, there's a fair number of…

:-/ It’s not a good equivalent based on this particular article, though. It’s not fair to associate the way he was punished for his convicted crime (sex without a condom) to his current crime (looking at illegal, possibly coerced, photos).

Oh, sorry... I was under the impression that they were pre-pubescent. Nonetheless, I got confused because the two incidents in this article aren’t really equvalent. That’s why the OP’s statement confused me. I thought the correlation was about images of girls/women being prosecuted since the person here is not being…

Because the article is about a person who is accused of having images of pre-pubescent girls and facing a serious sentence for it. To make an equivalent, I thought the poster meant serious charges for having images of the young girls, versus images of adult women.

You're referring to porn? To appear in porn over the age of 18, there are generally agreements that the 19-year-old consents to the activities that are about to be filmed/recorded - sometimes even outlining the specific acts. Under the age of 18, boy or girl is considered incapable of consent

Considering a large part of authors of this blog (and attendees of Coachella) were born in the ‘90s, early 2000s were before their time

Oooh, where can I get a degree in metaphysics? Can I be a spooky hunter?

Art informs science, just as science informs art. It is formalized thinking, from Tesla being inspired to conceptualize ACDC transistor from a passage of Johan Von Goethe, to Puthagoras hypothesizing on the meaning and beauty of Number as seen in nature, requiring artists to learn a differential equation is beside the…

Really? Ok... but I wonder how many More believe they were from African descent? All ancient Egyptian depictions seem to mark them as a dark-skinned people.

I say a sad goodbye to that face. Who knows how interesting or beautiful it might have looked if she had allowed herself to grow up with it :-(