The truly disgusting part of R Kelly is how long he got away with this depraved shit. We live in a society that prefers to cover up child abuse rather than deal with it directly, and there’s gonna be countless other R Kelly’s until we start facing how many kids are sexually abused in the US on the daily.

They might…

Probably shouldn’t read too much into his claim of “genius”.

why do white supremacists hide their faces?

Pennsyltucky is racist not georga racist

This reminds me of a KKK march in Decatur, Alabama back in the 1979. they were marching at night through a Black neighborhood to intimidate the residents. They got their directions mixed up and turned on the wrong street that led them pats a Black nightclub. Somebody standing outside yelled to the patrons inside, and…

You do such nice work, your stitches are perfect!

I need some help. I can’t find the answer on line. Sorry this is long

I’m sorry, but I feel like I need to be a voice of reason here. The sex work industry is complex, and not monolithic. Whereas some sex workers are more empowered and have the resources to be self-employed (which often, but not always coincides with class/race-based privilege), others are incredibly vulnerable to…

I know you didn’t ask me, but I’ll answer anyway : ) The information provided is actually not at all the general context of the action. FOSTA and SESTA are legislation- they are not the law, they haven’t even gone to conference committee. FOSTA and SESTA are completely irrelevant to what is happening to Backpage.

Yep. I am not bothered one single bit by Backpage being shut down. I hope this means that they are criminally prosecuted and thrown in jail, not just fined under civil liability as FOSTA provides. And, like I said, I really do not care in the least that this inconveniences anyone else who used Backpage for whatever…

Yep, I live in the Netherlands where: 1) prostitution is legal and there are a number of social services available to sex workers; and 2) the Netherlands is one of the world’s top sex trafficking destination countries and sex trafficking is a huge problem here. The percentage of Dutch women in sex work is the minority…

Everything you’re describing falls under interpretation of law. And that’s for lawyers to argue about. Is that good or bad? *shrugs*

Unfortunately many countries have found that legalizing sex work doesn’t help with cracking down on trafficking. The US is a particularly difficult country to talk about, though, because there are fewer social services (e.g. welfare) in the US (compared to other western countries) that sex workers could turn to as an…

So now Jezebel is seriously acting like a site which was notorious for sex trafficking is some kind of great loss? Can you just give up all pretense of being feminist now?

Good.

Bobby this is just like the Bible! The Meeks and the heiress give birth!!

Maybe you should help out more

Parental guilt trips are a monumental mind fuck, and it sucks so hard that your folks use them on you. It’s not fair, and it sounds like they feel like they have the right to exploit you because you’re their child. It’s an awful place to be in, because they’re your parents and of course you love them, but you also…

Get on an HRT plan (hormone replacement therapy). It works. When your estrogen drops, you get hot flashes. Transdermal patches are where it’s at for estrodial replacement. You put a patch either over your ovary on your front or your back. It doesn’t go through your liver. Completely bio-identical and completely safe.