It looks like in Georgia, the verdict has to be unanimous. But I’m not an expert -- someone from the state might know more about it.

The definition of that term has broadened so much as to make it useless. At one point sex trafficking referred to situations involving kidnapping or threats of violence, where the prostitute was being forced into sex work. Then people started using it to mean any sex work with an element of coercion or manipulation.…

Step 1: Hire Oprah so somebody under 90 might watch your show.

Like what? Remember, she’s over the age of consent — so even if he photographed or videotaped himself raping her, even if he left scars on her body, all he has to say is that she agreed to it and poof, the proof is nullified. Rape within a relationship is very, very hard to convict even with victim testimony, and…

The issue is that she’s of age under state law, and agreed to have “nonconsensual” sex as part of their relationship. So his defense could argue that she had consented to everything he did. They also probably would have tried to prove that she had opportunities to leave the relationship or call 911 and didn’t take…

Yeah, I don’t think she was trying to trash Kate. I think she heard some gossip that was making the rounds and her imagination took over, and she maybe didn’t realize that people would take it as more than speculation if it came from the account of a professional writer/publisher, even if she doesn’t consider herself…

Yeah, I feel bad for the Marchioness and also for Kate. Even if her husband is cheating, it must be hard on her for the whole internet to know. It’s not like she’s Beyoncé and can make an album to tell her side of the story.

Maybe! I’m frankly dubious, because the UK tabloid industry is notoriously sketchy with or without strict libel laws. But it’s not going to collapse my worldview if the basic story turns out to be true.

I don’t blame the “shonky” sites, though. This is an industry where Z-list reality star A unfollowing Z-list reality star B is worth a story — an account with a blue checkmark and a big following posting what looked like an inside take on something !scandalous! is obviously catnip. Nicole should have either not posted…

Which actually raises even more questions, because if there really were enough people in the know on this to flood her DMs, it was the worst-kept secret in the UK. (And yet, none of them are willing to confirm it to a source slightly more reputable than some lady on Twitter. Strange, that.) I suspect most of it that…

Wait, treason? Here I thought she had dropped out of view because she’s like 39.999999 weeks pregnant, but I’m sure somebody out there has convinced themselves she’s faking that too. Christ on a cracker.

I think they probably dated casually at some point around the second movie, and let the studio and their PR people spin it into something much bigger and more serious than it ever really was. I agree that the apology made it seem like there were real emotions there and it wasn’t a hundred percent a stunt. 

Yeah — I got a sick feeling in my stomach reading the thread originally because I could tell she was just speculating, but a lot of the people in her replies didn’t seem to realize that and she wasn’t correcting them that I saw. It seemed like the kind of thing that could get ugly very easily (and, obviously, now it…

Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound stan-ish; I agree that the internet and tabloids spread the most random gossip and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

I don’t see a problem with her having embraced it, though. You can’t exactly announce you aren’t christening your newborn because you got sick of babies five kids ago. Maybe her only sin was not doing a better job hiding her mixed feelings.

I mean, it could be that he liked Meghan as a girlfriend, but once she settled in as a wife the level of conflict increased because she didn’t fall into line as a proper royal wife. *eyeroll* Their dynamic at the wedding may not reflect how things are a year later. 

Okay, this is a side point, but as nobody in my real life cares — can I just say I’m kind of pissed at Nicole Cliffe for having decided all of her kabillion followers needed to hear her particular fanfic for how the alleged affair went down, which then influenced lots of the media coverage? She’s clinging to “I didn’t…

The Grey Worm/Missandei scene was so exactly what happens before a character dies that I can only hope it was a fake-out and they’ll both be fine.

I think half of it is people who intellectually know Maisie/Arya are adults but can’t emotionally accept it, and the other half is people who don’t want to break an unbroken streak of finding something offensive in every GoT sex scene so they’re making things up.

Word. I couldn’t breastfeed exclusively, and realizing that was devastating. Like, we’re talking “sobbing too hard to talk in the lactation consultant’s office” devastating. Before I admitted formula was there to stay, I pumped a lot, I took herbs to increase lactation, I read every forum I could find and made the…