Counterpoint:

I guarantee you that a train-your-dog-to-have-sex service is a common thing the same way that satanic ritual abuse was a common thing in the ‘80s. (In other words, it sounds like complete bullhockey, but it’s a lurid enough story that people keep repeating it.)

Extremely common?

“It is a very, very seedy world when it comes to animal sexual abuse and it is extremely common.”

...and? Nixon was preceded by both conservative and liberal politicians decades before that who engendered fear of black Americans. He didn’t invent the myth of black criminality, but he is one example of it being put into policy.

Private prisons incarcerate 50% of all detained immigrants and 16% of all federal prisoners. Populations in these prisons grew by 1600% since 1990.

And, no, I’m not arguing whether Clinton and Reagan are comparable or that private prisons caused the incarceration crisis. My only point is that non- right wingers “reap the benefits of anti-blackness.”

Guess you missed the line ending “piled on by every subsequent president for their own purposes.”

Pin this on the Republicans all you want, Dems played on this fear of black criminality as well. Private prisons skyrocketed beginning in Clinton’s era. Federal sentencing got tougher and continued to be discriminatory as well.

To each her own, I guess. That was my point. Personally, I do not understand how someone could eat, sleep, or fuck in temperatures of 82-84 without pausing to occasionally throw up.

You and me both. I have intensely passive-aggressive contests with one of my beloved flatmates who likes the temperature to hover somewhere between the Arabian desert and the surface of the sun. I, being a normal, like it somewhere around 21°-22°C (aka 70°-72°F in American). So every time one of us passes the…

50 DKP plus for working Dworkin into it.

Why don’t you write for this site? That was *perfect*.

Temperature is just one more thing that the patriarchy controls. This is not about conditioning the air; it’s about conditioning the oppressed classes to accept the cheapest, most convenient, and easiest air that the ruling classes can provide. It is a result of capitalism: An effort to monetize the human condition…

Jesus. 77°F is 25°C. That is nuts. It’s one thing to be working in an office that doesn’t have air conditioning, so it occasionally gets that warm on summer days, but quite another to aim for it. I’m a girl, and that is TOO HOT. Are the rest of you secretly lizard people? You are. I knew it.

No! You're reading fine! Her essay was not shocking or out of line!!

That's not an accurate or fair depiction of her piece.

I’m not even sure what is the particular objection to her original essay. Is this a failing on the part of this Jez article or does this speak more to the “incoherent” nature of the students’ protest? I read the article, and I didn’t find it especially shocking or even pro-rape (a ludicrous position to take). Am I…

At the end of the day, it isn’t really about the type of app—it’s how often you use it and what it’s worth to you. I think $20 is more than reasonable for heavy torrenters. If you use the app EVERY DAY, how is $20 too much? You pay that much for a decent dinner.