Can I just ask...what the FUCK is up with the trump boy’s faces? They look like that part where the Terminator tries to smile by mimiking a human child but can’t quite make it.

“Curved” is a thing? See, this is why I come to Jez. I’d have probably never heard the term.

Never broke her smile, and then capped it off with the “we’re just friends” arm pat. Beautiful.

Goddamn that was some amazing evasive maneuvering.

Just a PSA for the night

“It’s not lewd, it’s sexual assault.”

As an old, I can assure you that yes, many people who grew up in the 60s and 70s did, in fact, joke like this all the time. Trump is a bit older than I am (I’m 54) but that would only make his acceptance of this shit stronger. Thankfully, many of us evolved. Some of us though, clearly, lagged behind in that particular…

This, and saying you’d *like* to fuck a celebrity who you have never met is not even in the same ballpark as saying you can get away with groping real people because you’re famous.

THere’s a lot of confirmation bias going on. Being a respectable man, that has thoughts that exist above his belt, you aren’t likely to hang around with the MRAs, the Trumps, the dudes that do actually talk this way about women. And good for you.

No, we can condone murder. We as a society condone murder all the time, based on circumstances. In this case, a child attempted numerous times to flee her attacker and was returned to his care. She notified responsible adults of her abuse and was not provided aid. She did all the supposedly reasonable things that we…

There’s actually some really interesting and gruesome feminist legal theory about self-defense laws. Basically it boils down to: self defense laws are made for someone defending themselves in a fight to the death that’s moving quickly and happening right at the time of the death or injury. Women’s violence, and the…

And unlike the “argument” when women shoot their abusive husbands kids can’t “just leave” If she ran away she’d be sent back.

Unfuckingbelievable. I guess it’s because women aren’t perceived as “heads of households” or property owners, and if they’re not spinster slobs they’ll have a husband with a gun to protect them in the event that a black or brown person threatens their “rights.” But within that household, anything goes, and it’s not a…

There was a woman (in Florida) who shot into the air to try and scare her abusive husband out of her parents house, which he had broken into and she got 20 years. Stand your ground really is just for white men.

This is a classic case of what is often known as battered wife syndrome (although the shooter is in this case the daughter). An abuser is killed while vulnerable because his victims feel there is no other escape - they can’t run because he’ll find them, they can’t go to the authorities because they won’t keep him in…

This is part of the central moral question with regards to women and the law.

Can someone please explain to me why many states are totally cool with Stand Your Ground laws/using deadly force to “prevent death or great bodily harm” but this little girl faces life in prison for shooting someone who repeatedly threatened to kill his entire family with that very gun?

Honestly, I cannot understand the batshit mental acrobatics and internalized misogyny that would enable any woman to defend Trump’s comments.

Yep. I swear that the internet and social media in particular are making this a more widespread problem, too. It’s really popular in some circles (think upper-middle-class, white, suburban) to bake gluten-free, sugar-free, dairy-free, vegan birthday cakes with kale baked in for a baby’s 1st birthday party because God…

Orthorexia is an eating disorder where you’re obsessed with the purity of your food and parents definitely impose it on their children. And Orthorexics are often recovering anorexics.