I LOVE THAT VIDEO SO MUCH.

Consistency is not a bad goal, but I would much rather we push for minors who commit crimes to consistently be treated like minors, than for minors who are groomed / seduced to be treated like adults.

Good question, I’d be interested to know too. Maybe it doesn’t require the minor to go through the courts / notify anyone, like emancipation does?

Yeah, I saw that in the article and was being snarky. I’m in shock at the idea that a 13 year old can just get home one day and say “well, parents, I’m striking out on my own” (or be coerced into saying it by parents who are abandoning them). Ugh.

I don’t disagree that it’s arbitrary, but I’d argue it’s necessarily so. You can’t have a different set of legal standards for every individual, so we need to draw a line somewhere. The exact location of that line is less important than a social contract to respect it, in my opinion.

Oh, she was a willing participant? Good thing it doesn’t matter, because she’s underage and cannot consent to running away with a married man. /s

Dude, you’re fucking afraid to eat dinner with a woman.

...I’m generally up for a post-game debrief, but in that case I think I’d have gone with “no comment”.

I’m familiar with this problem. My dog does not respect the upside-down-water-bottle-as-mic.

I don’t own a hairbrush (it is bad for curls) but I sing into other objects and also use them to interview my husband and dog about issues of the day.

Agreed. I´m a 30something, I lost a parent as a teen and I went the denial and avoidance route too. It never occurred to anyone that my siblings and I might need therapy until one of us fell apart in dramatic fashion years later.

Oh god - I bet you’re exactly right. Reminds me of a guy I went to college with who was convinced that oral exams were fundamentally unfair to men because women could just wear a low cut shirt and short skirt and pass that way. Can’t make this shit up.

When Ivanka called to request Miller’s help on women’s issues, he reportedly responded “...you mean like periods and stuff?”

Agreed, SES is enormously important and race / ethnicity and SES are intimately linked in the US. Although it’s not like Stanford students are a random selection of the population - these are all high achieving students and disproportionately fewer will be working class than in the general population - it would not…

You know, even if there wasn’t a comparable way for white students to get help, I wouldn’t care. This “the individual is the only thing that matters, groups don’t exist” is all very well in theory but it isn’t borne out by reality, and systemic factors mean that on average minority students at Stanford may well be…

She stated that she was brought to Detroit for “special girls trip.”

I don’t want to feed into the “conceived souls at ART clinics” idea because there actually are idiot Christians going to those clinics and asking to have unneeded embryos implanted in their wombs, then calling it “adoption” and talking about saving souls. Fuck those people a thousand times over; if you’d like to do…

I’m able to disconnect somewhat and enjoy the art when the creators aren’t themselves at the center of it (e.g. painters are one thing, stand-up comics another).

I agree that unfortunately many talented and creative people are deeply flawed humans, and I’m able to disconnect somewhat and enjoy the art when the creators aren’t themselves at the center of it (e.g. painters are one thing, stand-up comics another). Woody Allen’s is so self-celebratory and narcissistic I can’t…

I watched it and thought it was a pretty good movie - has some major tragedy, flawed characters and doesn’t take the easy way out. However, I didn’t learn about Affleck’s sketchiness until after the fact or I wouldn’t have bothered with it.