Again, none of that is a capital offense. I don’t care if he had just robbed a bank and the cash was in his hand. Unless he was an immediate threat (which he wasn’t, from the accounts I’ve read), there was no reason to pull any weapon on him. 

And those details change what, exactly? Expired tags and an outstanding warrant are not capital offenses. 

That’s better, but speaking as a performer, if he wants to use my image for his own promotional purposes, I should be compensated over and above what I would normally earn for just performing. If he’s using the dancers to promote himself, he should pay them, especially since he has the means to do so. Exposure doesn’t…

What he could have done is throw the promotional shit in with the real money and then also give the dancers (through the manager or something) the same amount as the promo stuff. Then he gets his promo moment without being a turdburger.

tube top short short onesies?—that were all the rage at the time (they were velour, held up by an elastic...

Exactly this. If 10-30% of people would get cancer after smoking a cigarette, we would (and do) call it a health crisis. And you have to smoke cigarettes for years to get cancer, but you can overdose shooting up heroin one time.

It is legal under federal law as long as the deduction doesn’t take the employee’s hourly pay rate below minimum wage. Some states have more protection for employees in this area.

Yeah, that doesn’t make any sense. If he’s with her when she was shot and he has no gun, what makes them suspect him, besides a statistic and his ethnicity?

When we heard who the victims were, everyone thought it was a hate crime. We knew it in our hearts. We always know. But there’s an unspoken rule that then we have to deny what we all know to protect the white supremacist, cisgender-heteronormative toxic version of masculinity. It’s like we’re gaslighting ourselves. 

We can restructure sports entirely. No men’s or women’s but “These people are in the same weight class/approximate same time trials/can bench press 300lbs”. That way we have classifications that have something to do with the sport and not people’s genitalia.

As if gender norms aren’t the ultimate peer pressure.

“We should be outraged that someone society is so invested in a three-year-old’s about changing their sex gender.”

Fixed it for you, Rand.

I plan on using my fat middle aged white lady privilege for good.  “Oh this? It’s just a bag of soup for my family, officer.”

WOW, we have almost the exact same experience. I have been a plus size person all of my adulthood. About 8 years ago, I experienced a major depression and literally did not feed myself. Any sort of food made we want to vomit. I lost about 50 pounds. When I went out in public (very infrequently) acquaintances would…

I also feel like there is some “Literature isn’t really a necessary subject like math or science” bias. No one worries if teaching kids the Pythagorean theorem is going to put them off geometry. It’s just regarded as necessary, even though I can’t say that I have ever used it in my job. I have used critical thinking…

She replied to one of my posts on Instagram tagging her and my 70s kid dreams came true!

In my ED recovery, I have said the exact same thing as Gabourey. You can’t live without eating. For the rest of my life I’ll be asking myself, “Am I hungry, or am I angry/sad/frustrated/?” Sometimes it’s not as pronounced, but sometimes, especially if I’m already emotional, it’s right there. Do I make a choice to use…

Same at my retail job in the 90s. An Assistant Manager was processing returns on his credit card, when the store wasn’t even open. One of the other AMs was looking at weekly reports and caught it.

OMG...Cherry Ripe. Drool.

THANK YOU FOR THIS!! We need to think beyond the gender binary in sports. Boxing (while still gendered) has weight classes. A featherweight doesn’t fight a heavyweight. Why can’t we apply a similar idea to other sports? What if we looked for different ways to classify athletes than by what plumbing they have?