God, I’m so sick of this. Right now, in the pre-referendum UK, the “but what about Syrian child-rapists?!!” thing seems to be a keystone of the Ignorant Xenophobia - sorry, I mean the “Brexit” - campaign. It doesn’t make a difference how many stories of white child abusers you send them, for some strange reason, they…

Yes, it certainly can be, I know a lot of very high functioning neurodivergent people. I also know some who are non-verbal and find day to day living almost unbearably distressing. That’s why it’s a spectrum disorder. I know you didn’t mean to be offensive, but saying “it’s only X, not like it’s Y or Z”, immediately…

I do have to pull you up on this comment, because you have made it sound like it would be more acceptable to let children die if the risk was Downs. While Downs is certainly challenging, and can be life limiting, I have known people live very happily and productively with it. To suggest a hierarchy of “acceptable vs…

I assumed it was some combination of a) societal acceptance that women can enjoy sex too; and b) decent contraception, so she doesn’t have to spend her adult life pregnant, then expire from exhaustion during her 11th labour. The idea of sex as satisfying, rather than procreative, as a long-term thing, is still pretty…

“Just abuse”

Well, the way the polls are looking, the xenophobia might just get their wish.

Even if it’s not directly, the constant stirring of hatred by the right, coming out of it, seems a credible contributor.

I think it is striking that the Nationalist right (Trump there, Johnson and Farage here) look like clowns. People expect fascists to wear jackboots. We are sleepwalking towards Nazism on an international scale, and it will be very little comfort, to get to say “I told you so”.

Well, Jo was white, you see. Britain First only has form for encouraging violence against ethnic minority politicians, eg. Sadiq Khan.

This is comparatively local to me, and it’s breaking my heart.

I know, right? It’s almost like people line up to make excuses for mens’ shitty behaviour!

“Depressed”.

Hang on, so the fact there was a rape survivor on the jury somehow invalidates the entire jury’s verdict?

I know this is not the same, but I saw this the other day:

I was going to say “Isn’t getting into university meritocratic enough?”, then I remembered the terrifying cost of college in the U.S., whilst I was fortunate enough to study whilst higher education, in this country, was free. (R.I.P., education as a universal right.)

Also, is there some kind of trick to getting un-greyed? I’ve been commenting for best part of a year.

As a Brit, the entire fraternity/sorority pledging thing, remains an eternal mystery to me. What is with foisting this weird Masonic shit on students, as a matter of course? To put up with that kind of nonsense, I’m going to want a guarantee, along the lines of worldwide stardom/millionaire by 30. The only comparable…

“White Christmas”? The one with Jon Hamm in it? Weird, layered VR thing, where you could slave a bit of your psyche and fuck with time. And block people in reality. Hah.

Ooh, not sure. Are you thinking of “White Bear”?

Given we are increasingly living a dystopian nightmare anyway, can we really not figure out how to keep this piece of shit alive to serve all those life sentences consecutively? In a small, unlit room? Full of pissed off wasps? (And absolutely not keep him alive a day longer than that, obviously.)