There’s this weird preoccupation on the left that the people who are best-equipped to fix a problem are the ones who have been direct victims of it. Which certainly does play a role, but doesn’t always necessarily pan out to positive outcomes in the real- someone who has spent a great deal of time studying and…

Yeah, I mean, I get her point, and yes, plenty of people’s version of helping is “replace your actual life with my version of ‘better,’” but I can’t believe kidnapped/sold twelve year olds being passed around to hundreds of clients are feeling “empowered” by their lives.

I think this is a serious problem with social justice as a whole right now. It’s become really self-destructive for the people engaging in it, and destructive for people outside of it when we see them as not behaving in ways/holding opinions we think they should for their assumed “privilege” level. I mean, it…

There is a lot I can agree with here, on the subject of doing good and do-gooders. (And coincidently I have a cousin who’s worked with Engineers Without Borders in Malawi - he’s blogged about some of this.) But the part where “anti-traffickers” are all clueless do-gooders? No. Some of those anti-traffickers are people…

As to the headline... well, duh.

While I’m all about a diverse bachelorette, I would not have tuned in for Caila. She was low-key crazy, and not in an endearing or amusing way. I think ABC was going to cast her, but she was just too boring. I seriously doubt this was a race issue. It was a boring issue.

Yeah, that’s pretty much the entire fucking point.

Having her hair constantly pulled back like that can’t be doing her hair or roots any favors.

this skeeves me out. it’s like she does everything she can to read as ‘very young girl’ and then releases songs about sex. yuck

She didn’t advance jack shit. Social justice advocates just latched onto her, and everybody just willfully forgot that she is a terrible person

I H8 C8

You nailed it - she isn’t/won’t be affected by a single policy, cultural mentality or tradition that women are.

Setta is Morena’s mom’s maiden name and Schenkkan is his real last name.

The “Setta” is hers. The “Schenkkan” is his.

I don’t think it’s a question of intelligence; I think it’s one of caring. She will never need an abortion or social welfare benefits, so in her mind those issues are unimportant. It’s like when I hear about how tax plans affect people with a lot of investment income — that’s not me and it’s never going to be me, so…

Gotham’s Ben McKenzie and Morena Baccarin welcomed daughter Frances Laiz Setta Schenkkan to the world on March 2.

A) Last time I checked, Caitlin Jenner killed someone.

Has anyone burned off as much goodwill as quickly as she has since she transitioned?

This made me want to punch this guy in the face. I am the mother of a son I sure hope grows up to be a fine young man, but if he does something to hurt another person, he’ll need to face the consequences just like anyone else who commits a crime.

At least he is talking to an unbiased source about the matter.