These situations always make me sick to my stomach. Glad to hear she was able to get out of this and that her trafficker was arrested. Confused as to why the 49 year old man wasn't arrested as well? I'm no legal expert but isn't soliciting sex from a minor a criminal offense? And it sounds like he was caught redhanded…

That's because your comment is kind of a trivial observation about how they look to you, like they're only supposed to look one way forever, and not talk about serious things like being accosted and harangued by photographers with their kids. It was an odd comment in context.

I just think it took them having their own child to realize how scary it can be to be with your baby while you're being chased down by photogs.

This is totally off topic but thank you for the best rundown of Kinja I have found in one place?

I wholeheartedly disagree about Jared Leto doing the bare minimum. He dropped a significant amount of weight, and admitted to subsisting on just water for parts of the filming. He put himself at major health risks because he so desperately wanted to get the look down. He also took to walking around in every day…

I find it a little hypocritical to call Rayon a collection of tropes rather than a real trans character, and then criticize the character for not reacting to being misgendered. This implies two things about trans people : that we all react to misgendering the same way, and that we all experience gender dysphoria in…

I came of age in the LGTB community of a redneck city during the late 80s and early 90s and I thought Leto's performance was absolutely convincing. He was messy and campy and superficial and damaged in all of the ways that many trans women are —and were—in the the real world outside of the vain wishes of identity…

As someone who has helped run a local LGBT clinic, I want to voice my opinion.
When I watched the movie, I felt that the movie was able to capture bits and pieces of the problems faced by different trans-gender men or women. Of course, we didn't live in their shoes and we can't judge how "accurately" it portrays the…

At least one half of Daft Punk came to her aid!

This woman is the best thing to ever happen to award shows.

How is Jared Leto so hot and his brother is so not?

I hear you on this. There needs to be a balance because no matter what, rape culture Still Exists. To NOT warn women about their safety is, IMO, irresponsible in this situation. When women are being abducted by multiple men, CLEARLY not going out alone is a good idea. That is not victim blaming. That is pure and…

I think I missed the part where gender was specified in the article.

I knew this would be a top response to this. Genuine question.... it seems likely that the police consider the rapists to be the primary problem, not women making themselves vulnerable. Do you really think they should just tell women at UCSB to just go about their business as usual, so as not to blame the victim? Is…

That's really the only advice that can be given. What is she suppose to say? "We are now offering martial art classes and tasers are 40% off in the bookstore"

Yeah, I think that's likely why they included 16-17 year olds in "child porn" laws... but as much as I don't think 16-17 year olds should be in porn, that should be in a separate area of law, one which can prosecute porn producers for not carefully verifying age (which they legally must do already anyway). I mean in…

I don't know, we have this really strange grey area for 16 and 17 year olds in that they're allowed to have sex with each other, but sometimes not with people over 18. And even where they are allowed to have sex with adults, they aren't allowed to be presented in a sexual way to adults. They're aren't supposed to be…

Yes, I would call her a crybaby. If the makeup of the classroom gives people problems, they can easily drop the course and move on rather than filing a discrimination lawsuit because of a failing grade that stems from the lack of fulfilling an attendance requirement because you did not attend the course.

You know, I've sat in the first lecture for a class and gotten the distinct impression that spending two hours every week sitting there for the next four months would be overwhelming. I reacted by dropping those classes and quickly signing up for something that seemed more tolerable.