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Well you can’t, because you’re a decent person, and he’s a serial rapist, and you know that, and this is something he decided to trash when he made terrible choices to rape people: You think of him then you think of rape.

Doesn’t make you a bad person though. You’re not hurting anyone by trying to enjoy his work,

I’m telling you that there are no states where non-U.S. Citizens without work visas can’t get married. If you want to prove me wrong, all you have to do is provide a single counterexample. You can’t do that though, because there are none.

No. In some states you need to provide your SSN if you have one, but you do not need to have one to be able to get married.

Your idea is stupid. Relying on SSN for verification for online marriage licenses would just add one more way for identity thieves to fuck up their victim’s lives. It also means literally connecting a state jurisdictional issue, marriage, with a federal jurisdictional issue, social security. That is an unnecessary

You don’t need a Social Security Number to get married.

her smile says she concedes the point.

The text of this instant message conversation I had at work six months ago has not been altered. I was talking with an Israeli coworker about dance videos I made. She has a reputation as the sweetest person at the company.

Why not? actually works as an answer to kids a lot more often than people would expect.

Yeah, and apparently the author has discovered the biological source of sexuality?

No No No please click once more:

My roommate rolled her eyes and spun around. “We do understand,” she snapped. “Everyone understands. What we just experienced was a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” She laughed. “The Five-Minute War.”

Please tell me gino tobleroni is from some real hate mail

Absolutely correct. A gay men’s bathroom is called a bathhouse, and they are mostly illegal now.

This.

She’s pretty much saying spousal rape is A-OK.

Also, I can’t say this big enough:

You’ve got to expand beyond this limited 100% paradigm.

I was sympathetic until I read the essay. It’s really terrible, and it does really lay into shaming a student for reporting harassment. It’s gross as hell:

I think it’s because gay marriage actually does not materially affect anyone who is not gay. Allowing women to have control of their own reproductive rights means that many men lose control over means of reproduction that they were counting on controlling. It actually does materially affect them, because they can’t

The suit says Ball’s behavior casts serious doubts upon her motivation for insisting upon the forced vaginal probing sessions.