Total BS.

Thanks!

I remember seeing a version of this years ago in a pride parade. Also Peppermint Patty & Marcie. I will admit to wearing a rather risque Batgirl/Wonder Woman shirt myself.

If she doesn't go to jail, or end up in house arrest. They probably wouldn't be able to leave the state if she takes the plea.

The Steubenville kids were future career criminals too. They just had the support of the community behind them to help them out of the consequences of their criminal behavior. As many privileged athletes do when they do the same stuff that black gang members do, which isn't limited to rape.

The xoxojane article says that the police taped a phone conversation between the two girls with the help of the younger girl's parents. So they have enough to charge her, apparently.

Good to know - I wasn't sure about the law in that situation.

Man, blogs can not catch a break lately, what with comedians dissing them for exposing their rape jokes as well.

The police taped a conversation the girls had about their sexual relationship, apparently without the knowledge of either. So they girl might not need to testify.

The younger girl's family taped a conversation between the two girls.

Easy to say, not so easy for a teenager dependent on parents to do. I say this as an occasionally mentor for an LBGT youth program in a red state; gay young people stuck in red states have a shitty situation.

Update: I guess the monkey official became a German citizen as of Friday because Beebs defaulted on the paperwork, so Germany gets to keep him. They just have to figure out where to put him. So I was behind in my news...

Except that because Beeb hasn't signed the paperwork, the monkey can't join the other monkeys in the sanctuary. It's still in isolation, waiting for him to get off his ass and do it, at least the last I heard.

I hope she's disgusted on behalf of Beeb's stranded monkey. Because I am.

Science journalism in general is so terrible. I'm not even in a STEM field, and most of the time I can recognize when an article fails to adequately explain the basic brief or abstract of what a scientific study says, let alone actually critiquing the study's conclusions in any way that has meaning to readers.

This sort of fits in with Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers research - people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and the Beatles had more than just an active mind at their disposal. They also had a support system of some sort that gave them opportunities, and 10,000 hours of tinkering at something they really loved to use as…

There's a later article where they said "no we didn't pull her; we just never put up the new art, but we're still gonna do it."

Except that they didn't actually pull Merida. They were forced to make some statements about it, but they're going with the makeover.

I can't tell you how excited I was to put Wandering Son on my birthday wishlist. I hadn't heard of it until the Gender Through Comics MOOC, and when I looked it up, everyone I knew was informed about what I expected for my birthday.

I saw the movie last night, and I'm saying the same thing. It was pretty bad. I wasn't sure they actually read the book. It was like the worst, most expensive book report ever. Jezebel's fake book report was better.