Rapists get less time than this

The last time I went camping there was a woman in the hiking trails with big hair, full makeup and four inch heel boots with a fake fur bobble trim. She climbed those trails like a damn mountain goat.

Yep

I tried to read this shortly after you posted. I couldn’t. Despite it being early in the day and a new one, I woke up tired because I know the America that greets me isn’t. My tiredness isn’t specific to today. It’s been constant and growing since the inception of this America’s administration. It was quickened when I…

The $750 seems right for Ms. Mason too. Five years for this?!

As a nanny, none of the ill treatment surprises me. I’ve been lucky enough to work for great families, but I’ve also heard some crazy horror stories. Because we’re isolated in separate households and often contract our own services, it’s difficult to address complaints. Nannies and au pairs are routinely overworked…

The law exists to deter felons from voting. But the harshness of the sentence isn’t to deter felons from voting -- it’s to deter people like her from voting.

My family hosted 6 au pairs, each for a year stint, as I was growing up. All of them were from Germany and they were all 20 years old when they came here. They really were like older sisters to me. My parents renovated the house to include a comfortable room and full bath in an area of the house that could be shut off…

It’s beside your point, but the person would be responsible for the kids for that whole nine hours, sleeping or waking. They can’t just up and leave at any time, and they’d have to deal with it if there was an accident or someone got sick.

I feel punched in the face every time a black man gets shot and his killer walks away.

Weird that this article is about fair labor violations but most of the comments so far are from the POV of the employers and not the workers. Guess this is a fancy readership.

She is black.

This is awful. I was a professional nanny for a long time, and I can tell you that the agency and the other nannies I knew—though admittedly there were only a few—did not approve of au pairs. We had ALL heard horror stories that involved overwork and hound-dog dads who clearly wanted to bang the girl. Nannies, even…

I have a friend who worked as an au pair in Spain for almost a year. Her host family was very inviting and she loved working with their kids and the hours were manageable enough that she had free time to have a social life. She went on family trips and got to practice her Spanish. Everything seemed great, but one…

Prison reform should start with a statement of spending per every adult non-violent criminal sent to every taxpayer on the municipal, state, and federal level. This punishment does not fit the crime at all and stinks of everyone profiting from her incarceration.

An au pair is supposed to be treated like an exchange student: they are a part of the family who you not only include in vacations, dinner, family outings, etc. but you also make the effort to give them “cultural experiences”, like take them to the train museum or some shit. In exchange for that they do some child…

She wasn’t supposed to vote, but under no circumstances should the punishment be fucking prison!!!

That judge is trash. Pure trash.

This is well written, but I for the life of me don’t understand why you included this: