Typically, yes. But Hamilton is reaching a far broader audience than a typical Broadway musical, and has become a cultural phenomenon. The cast album and the “Hamiltome” book have both been best sellers, and have reached many, many more people than will ever see the musical. The cast is all over late night and daytime…

Except that some of these people are superstars, and will not have any trouble finding work after Hamilton. Half the main cast already has other film/TV/musical projects in the works now. I mean, SEVEN different performers from this show got Tony nominations. That elevates their status and the status of the show, and…

Or Daveed. I am so completely enamored of Daveed.

I could definitely see him drinking children’s tears, Mason Verger style.

Odo/Dax 2016

Not just world leaders. Much of the sports and entertainment industry, too, apparently. You know, your general Illuminati types. Although apparently some - including Brad Pitt, Taylor Swift, and Tiger Woods - aren’t humans OR reptilians, but “synthetic cyborgs.”

Natalie Portman in particular. She was great in Leon: The Professional. Really, that was an astonishing performance for a child.

Well, we first talked about consent with the “birds and the bees” talk - I think around 3rd grade. He’s autistic and a bit of a late bloomer, but we wanted to prepare him for the “bad touch” presentation at school, and get some of our own values in there first.

I so completely agree. Again, I want to be clear that I’m not discussing the merits of this particular case, because it’s clearly more complicated than most. But in general, I find abhorrent the idea of making children into “sex offenders” because they’ve had consensual sex or played around on snapchat.

“Possession of obscene material” = kiddie porn = filming the sex. He is charged with both. The film is the one that will stick.

More for me!!

We’ve had those conversations with our son. We introduced the idea of consent when we explained how babies were made. We’ve also talked about his responsibility to intervene in a situation where someone might be being exploited (like, don’t leave your drunk female friend alone at a frat party). We’ve talked about…

Also, they should at minimum be aware that filming it is illegal.

Yes. Even children can be charged with distributing child porn - and even if it’s their own image. I don’t know about this school, but my son was taught this in middle school. This is increasingly an issue since all kids have cell phones, and few have much common sense. They need to know that if they share sexually…

As others have said, it’s the video taping that’s the crime. Regardless of consent, any filming/photographing or sharing of sexual images involving a minor is a crime. Children can be charged with distributing child pornography - even for pictures of themselves that they’ve willingly shared. There have been several…

The filming would be illegal regardless of his age, as long as one or both partners is under 18.

He is probably being charged not for the sex but for the filming/distribution. Sharing pics/vids of sex acts involving minors is illegal, even if the acts are consensual. This is important for kids to know in the age of ubiquitous cell phones - they have drilled it into the kids at my son’s school because there have…

However - and I’m NOT excusing this particular boy, because I don't know the circumstances here - most age of consent laws feature age qualifications for both parties. Usually, it is not considered statutory rape if both parties are close in age (usually a 2-4 year range, depending on state and consent age). I don’t…

Daveed is my everything.

This is so familiar to me. Partly because I’d never seen a functional relationship, I didn’t know that this was not how people were “supposed” to act if they loved someone. Like, obviously, love means yelling, breaking things, throwing the occasional punch, right?