natural disaster Chip Kelly can affect this eagle family and may be difficult to watch.

Nice job Kara. This and a shout-out from Ta-Nehisi Coates himself.

Which is why I think the ultimate cure for this is anonymity. Divorce one’s self entirely from the process of doing good. Remain unknown. Serve others and offer aid and do not allow your personality to intrude. I make my donations anonymously, I refuse all awards, decline interviews. If the work is paid work, I’ve…

The long awaited Taco Video.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, and you bet your sweet ass! “Pam’s garden had gone to seed, but certain corners still recalled, if you squinted, the vestiges of the lush immaculateness that had made the garden such a source of admiration in earlier days.” (The garden is a metaphor for Pam’s vagina. And, like, America.)

Having suffered years of sexual abuse from my own father and being too afraid to tell anyone, the fact that this young woman had the strength to tell a trusted adult speaks VOLUMES about her. I wish I could hug her and tell her how brave she is.

No one wants to be a victim. Often it takes a while to process in your mind what happened, and while you’re working it out you’re trying to find every other possible explanation than “another person took advantage of me.”

Thank you for this! This was my feeling when I saw the article last night but I was too tired to voice it. Clicking the star next to someone else who says my opinion for me is much more my lazy style.

Um, no my words are fine and rape is rape. If I’m employed as a dock worker and someone forcibly grabs me and forces me to unload crates on a different dock against my will with threats, it’s still kidnapping, false imprisonment and assault, even if they pay me.

Right? People get so weirdly hung up on that “selling your body” thing. But they are fine with people selling their body for the value of its muscle to use a shovel or lift boxes, or to pour drinks or carry plates of food to people’s tables. You can go ahead and sell your back, arms, and legs — BUT DON’T YOU DARE SELL…

Noooooooo! That is the worstworstworst model for us! It does nothing to help sex workers, and it virtually ensures that the only clients we get are those who care little about conflict with the law. And guess what? That’s usually not because they’re freedom fighters!

Ugh, no. Sex workers want decriminalization, not legalization. Legalization creates a two-tiered workforce — those who are able to deal with the often-pointlessly-onerous regulations that are put forth, and those who can’t. It does nothing to stop street-level sex work, but it certainly ensures that police can abuse…

I’m late to this convo (because I was out with other sex workers last night!) so someone else may have said this (I’m having a hard time reading all the comments, TBH), but just in case, but I think you’re misinterpreting what decrim is. It’s not meant to be a way-station between ‘legal and ‘illegal’. Sex workers…

No. Just because people might have limited choice doesn’t mean they don’t have a choice at all and it doesn’t mean you have the right to choose for them. A sex worker has the right to sell her service. It doesn’t mean her client will have access to her anytime he wants. It doesn’t mean he makes the choice of what she…

Growing up in a coal region.... yes, I earnest, honestly do in my heart of hearts believe a job in coal mining is comparable to the sex trade. Most people get into it because they literally have no other options, yet someone had to get food on the table. They do it because its what they know, not what they want. Every…

Consent isn’t being bought or sold services are.

I think the reason this debate results in people talking past each other so much is because each side of the debate is arguing about a very different thing from the other. Decrim advocates, including current sex workers, sex worker advocacy groups, the World Health Organization, and Amnesty International argue from a…

I see where you’re coming from, and you do have a point. Women have been over objectified in the past, and while things have improved tremendously, are still way too objectified today.

I hear a lot of people talking about how enthusiastic women are to have sex for money. Is their heart really in it or are they just feeding themselves? A lot of service workers and other poorly paid folks don’t looooove what they do, but we’re far more concerned about whether people see their work as fulfilling when…

the silent majority supports you