Well then, in answer to your hypothetical, voluntary intoxication is neither a defense to a crime you've committed nor a free pass for crimes to be committed against you. If I walk home stinking drunk and get hit in a crosswalk by a drunk driver, the driver is a criminal and I am not, even though we are both…

She passed out, and woke up with her pants down and DNA evidence of sex was found with an anal swab. If she was drunk enough to pass out, and then woke up after the sex, it's pretty damn hard for her to have consented at all, much less meaningfully.

Not sure if you're serious, but I'll respond under the assumption that you are. Caps are for emphasis, and are not me yelling at you.

Because legally (and I would say morally and ethically) if she is too drunk to remember and/or passed out and he had sex with her, that's rape. Consent does not just mean lack of being able to say no.

"She wakes up remembering only the puking part, but somehow she just "knows" that the sex wasn't consensual?"

I'll make this really simple for you: Josh Lueke was not convicted of rape. Josh Lueke is a rapist. These two things are not incongruent or inconsistent.

It should go without saying that if someone is too intoxicated to remember an event, they're also too intoxicated to consent.

Great post, Stacey.

Hate Lueke, but direct an equal or greater amount of hate at the system that allows him to be free right now.

Mostly I'm laughing at the "I'm in my 20s and I still look young and I don't care about aging anyway" comments. Of course you look young in your 20s and it's much, much easier not to care about aging when you haven't done any. Talk to me the first time you wake up with sleep lines on your face that won't go away…

Okay, I'm intrigued (at 34, the lines are there and I can't ignore them) but also clueless — the Retin-A prescription, is this just a generic product I should ask my doctor for? And assuming the acne is no longer an issue for you, how aggressively are you applying the stuff? Are you just dabbing it on any and all fine…

I find people of our generation tend to look younger than what our parents looked like at the same age. we ate better foods, exercised more, didn't expose our skin to the sun as much...plus better skin care, cosmetics etc. I could probably pass for 30 (I'm born 79).

Life is so wacky. You can be young and smooth and beautiful, but you aren't emotionally mature enough to have the perspective to appreciate it. Then you get older and wrinkly and saggy, but you have this glorious lack of self-consciousness that comes with age. Just last night, I finished Zumba and thought about…

Yes. And this is a claim Feldman has been consistently making for at least several years. I believe he has also spoken to some extent about abuse Haim suffered as well. I wish he would just up and name names. But I'm sure his lawyers have already advised him of all the reason$ why he shouldn't. Plus, at this point, I…

scrivener is also excellent for screenwriting. The ability to drag and drop scenes to change their order is very helpful. Also the fact it archives previous versions of scenes to allow you to roll back to earlier versions will save you from rewriting constantly...

Since I still had the tab open.

Yeah, the one thing that is a MAYBE is a blepharoplasty. She looks like she's had her eyelids done, and there are lots of reasons someone might choose to do that.

If there's a line of Portland Rapunzel cafes to match the bikini coffee shops in the Seattle area, I'll literally die.

Hair cutting is prohibited for some Sikhs. So while you're free to be of that opinion, I'm not sure whether stating it publicly is appropriate. You don't know why someone has very long hair unless you ask.