Yeah, some poaching (e.g., silverback gorillas) does occur because people can't feed themselves because of corrupt and bad governance, but not in numbers so significant (as yet) to wipe out a species.

See, this argument made sense when it was being used by female suffragettes and pro-abolitionists, the idea being that being a shitty person hurts the soul and destroys it in a myriad of unseen ways.

This is...legitimate but also kind of creepy?

Seriously. I hate humans sometimes. We are so fucked up.

No, no. We can't show this. This doesn't fit into Jez's narrative of the West being evil all the time and everything bad being the fault of Westerners.

Yeah, that's what makes me so NUTS. It's educated, wealthy Chinese who should know better - it's not like the rural, uneducated poor can afford it, and being uneducated and poor, at least they'd have some excuse. There is no excuse for theses people. They need to be called out and shamed.

Oh, man, people that go on Safaris make my blood boil. But not as much as the poachers, and the fucking WEALTHY Chinese/whatever urbanites that drive this shit. They should know better.

On a rereading, HOLY fucking shit. How disingenuous. The vast majority of the blame of the extinction falls on the countries demanding the ivory and animal parts, and the vast majority of poaching are carried out by a small number of native Africans profiting off these animals. This is some pathetic, embarrassingly…

You know most of the people doing the killing are a small number of native African poachers, doing it to make a profit off of the animals genitals and ivory because of demand for these things in Philippines, a few other countries, and especially China, right? The problem is China, and it won't stop until Chinese…

Curious how you left out the part about the rhino's impending extinction being more or less the result of Chinese demand for exotic animal parts for Chinese medicine.

Right, but then isn't the bigger problem the people who are ready to label the women as sluts in the first place because they're balck? And FYI, Miley HAS been called a slut, whorish, wild and loose by PLENTY of people. It's kind of screwed up that people are so gleefully, meanspiritedly attacking this 20-something…

They may be laughing at her cuz she can't twerk, but she's laughing all the way to the bank.

I once got into a argument with some Jez commenters forever and ever ago for daring to suggest that the women who participate in various Miss USA/America/whatever pageants are just really not that smart. Not so, said some commenters. They are SO smart. And beautiful! And accomplished!

Ridiculous sexism aside as in the Steinem case, when I think of "women's magazine's" I literally think of the fluffiest, most intellectually vapid crap that's been sucked into a pop-cultural grind and spit back out, and which regurgitates and reinforces rather than analyzes. This is obviously problematic, because the…

*too thick, NOT thin —oops!

Glasses-wearing ladies of Jez - HELP!

Of course it could. Do you know how much crap "could be done" and/or is done by attractive looking women? Life isn't fair. If you're attractive and you're male or female, you get a gigantic pass. Fat/ugly girls never get to skip the line in clubs; they don't get invited to the VIP section, and they get overlooked by…

This is true, but I've heard plenty of stories from my parents about how I was - not perfect, but not shout-y either. I'll take their word for it.

Agreed - you should read my reply to FritzKekich!

Fair enough! It's just that I have definitely have heard the suggestion that little girls (Louis C.K., I love ya but I'm looking at you) possess some special evil manipulative power, and its a narrative that pops up a lot.