Agreed. I grew up having no relationship with my father that is worth repeating or retelling. Therefore I could not possibly relate positively to a father/son dynamic in the style of Leave it to Beaver. Having it be a daughter, however, can give me hope for a future relationship with any daughter I might have who…

I mean, we’re not talking about creating characters and then gender-swapping them. We’re talking about a preproduction process where the writers might say something like “alright, and then Nate and Sam go into this old man’s house” and then someone says “what if it’s a woman?” and everyone’s like “hey yeah.” Maybe…

As a concept artist, I think asking that question consistently is really empowering, actually, as long as it’s responded to appropriately. It’s not a “can we fit a female/nonbinary/minority into this character?” sort of thing, it should be moreso “is this character better as something other than a while, straight…

EVERY character gets the “what if it were a girl?” treatment? No, I don’t think that’s necessarily a good thing.

Different stories will resonate with different people, of course, but to me the idea of Nathan and Elena having a precocious daughter who wants to be just like her dad is way more interesting than any sort of father/son relationship they could have done.

There's no tipping point. There's just not. Sandy Hook proved that. It will never end.

You fucking, stupid, careless asshole. Usually? Usually?

Never underestimate a jezebel commenters ability to find something negative in an otherwise heartwarming story

You’ve got it backwards. Shake It Off is Taylor Swift.

Always useful when a predator reveals his criteria for potential victims (women with “lifestyles,” meaning they’re black or poor). He’s too much of an ignorant, spoiled little shit to see how obvious his guilt is to everyone else.

I’d be ok with them interviewing him if they were going to hold his feet to fire a little. Push him on his flimsy excuses and point out the fallacies in his bullshit spiel - like the comment about soccer moms - and I’m down. But a soft touch bit giving him free rein to whine about how sad and misunderstood he is is a…

Also, props to the SVU detective on his own force that helped to put him away. She's a badass.

I watched this last night and it was disgusting. How many times did they mention he was an all star football player? Way too many. One time would have been too many. While talking about the vile things that he did, they followed it up by mentioning what an amazing son/brother/boyfriend he was. He’s a piece of shit and…

And we don’t equally apply the standard of grief and despair across all tragedies. If I matter-of-factly say my mother died 10 years ago, you would believe me. But if I say I was raped 10 years ago, you may doubt me because I don’t quiver and cry.

Oh my god, this! People who have never been poor do not understand how important it often is to present themselves as well as possible, to be the
“good” poor person who is clearly “trying.” If you can scrounge up the clothes and make yourself look presentable, maybe that job will hire you, or at the very least maybe…

Certainly the rapist has no shortage of tears in the photo, so crying isn't indicative of any actual empathy.

Are you a mental health expert? Ever has post partum depression or psychosis? who are you to question what this woman was going through?

That’s not how the law works. The insanity is based on whether you knew right from wrong at the time the crime was committed, not your state of mind at trial.

Because she didn’t meet the standard for insanity in New York State. Instead, the judge knocked her charges down from murder to manslaughter. Since was found guilty on that charge, she must serve prison time.

I’m just guessing here, but it seems as if they are saying when she committed the murders, she was suffering from it, but currently she is not suffering from it. Again, just a guess. And if it is as serious as these psychiatrists are saying, I would think a mental health facility would be more appropriate, as well.