@BuddyBradley: You are using a 1939 Supreme Court case to make an original intent argument.
@ajlien03: I can't remember the last time I cared even the teensiest bit about a celebrity event because I thought it would be exciting or interesting. The fact that's it these two...and a baby rumor, sort of blows my entire self-concept.
I'm going to go write about this on Facebook's new "philosophy" section.
I'm going to go write about this on Facebook's new "philosophy" section.
As a stereotypical law student who is entirely too enamored with CASELAW, I just have to say *this* would be why so much "legislation" happens from the bench.
ETA: During finals I apparently can't handle the responsibility and stress that comes with being able to see the unapproved comments. Must get back to outlining.
ETA: During finals I apparently can't handle the responsibility and stress that comes with being able to see the unapproved comments. Must get back to outlining.
@jlpwjh4l: Well, gee, now that I've done all that *thinking* about the harms of "slacktivism" and child abuse, I think the world is a much better place. So many people are unaware that child abuse is bad, but I am at least AWARE!
It feels oddly validating to learn that there is an even dumber fb meme/rumor going around than the one that caused people to change their profiles to cartoon characters.
I just really like April from the TMNT, and thought it was fun to see more Donald Ducks than duckface. I briefly considered posting a disclaimer, "I'm not doing this because I think it does jackshit for abused kids, but because it's sort of cute," but that seemed sort of petty.
I just really like April from the TMNT, and thought it was fun to see more Donald Ducks than duckface. I briefly considered posting a disclaimer, "I'm not doing this because I think it does jackshit for abused kids, but because it's sort of cute," but that seemed sort of petty.
@R-V: I want to say I understand your frustration, but as a hetero, I realize that I'm *lucky* not to be able to.
In addition to the psychological and economic benefits that marriage purports to extend to happy-in-love couples, many of our marriage laws reflect the government's baffling interest in keeping unhappy couples together. I was married to my boyfriend of 6 years in a simple, non-religious ceremony by the town justice (lavish party followed though!). Divorce, on the other hand, has been a real bitch. The process has already been dragging on, and even when we finally get a preliminary judgment, we will have to wait 6 more months before the final judgment is entered. The cost of our ceremony was less than $200. The divorce will easily cost ten times that, and we're both students!
I hope to come out of this still a foolish optimist in love, but unless there is some option where the dissolution of a partnership could be as simple and painless as entering the partnership, I'm not legally committing myself to anyone ever again. The government's sorry attempts at protecting marriage and the family have done nothing but add instability to my life -- and it's placed me in an extremely precarious emotional and financial situation. I wish we could radically rethink the options we give people to form families. I honestly think my ex and I would have a much better relationship/friendship if it weren't for the perverse incentives divorce law seems to give us to be complete dicks to each other. And I live in a state that is thought to have relatively fair and equitable divorce laws.
Okay...end rant...I hope this sort of thing can help everyone make the family decisions they want, and that if govt's start giving civil unions to both straight and gay couples, that they won't use it as an excuse to deny gay couples the right to marry.
In addition to the psychological and economic benefits that marriage purports to extend to happy-in-love couples, many of our marriage laws reflect the government's baffling interest in keeping unhappy couples together. I was married to my boyfriend of 6 years in a simple, non-religious ceremony by the town justice (lavish party followed though!). Divorce, on the other hand, has been a real bitch. The process has already been dragging on, and even when we finally get a preliminary judgment, we will have to wait 6 more months before the final judgment is entered. The cost of our ceremony was less than $200. The divorce will easily cost ten times that, and we're both students!
I hope to come out of this still a foolish optimist in love, but unless there is some option where the dissolution of a partnership could be as simple and painless as entering the partnership, I'm not legally committing myself to anyone ever again. The government's sorry attempts at protecting marriage and the family have done nothing but add instability to my life -- and it's placed me in an extremely precarious emotional and financial situation. I wish we could radically rethink the options we give people to form families. I honestly think my ex and I would have a much better relationship/friendship if it weren't for the perverse incentives divorce law seems to give us to be complete dicks to each other. And I live in a state that is thought to have relatively fair and equitable divorce laws.
Okay...end rant...I hope this sort of thing can help everyone make the family decisions they want, and that if govt's start giving civil unions to both straight and gay couples, that they won't use it as an excuse to deny gay couples the right to marry.
@Hasselbland: It's bizarre though. It's people who have been on my mind, but not ones I've necessarily fb stalked, but who might have recently caught up with a mutual friend, or who are really good friends with people I fb stalk way too much. Also, when I look at my friends' list of friends, there are a few mutual friends I'm close to, but who the profile owner barely knows, and I'm *certain* the profile owner isn't stalking the mutual friend and vice versa.
I just clicked on my bf's page about a hundred times though to be safe.
ETA: Changed "tho" to "though." Jesus.
I just clicked on my bf's page about a hundred times though to be safe.
ETA: Changed "tho" to "though." Jesus.
@weetziebat: Me too! Does anyone know what it is?
@thevioletllama: I was married for a whole nine months, but to some people (banks, grocery stores, great-aunts) I'll forever be "divorced" instead of "single." Unless I get married again. I mean, yeah, marriage is so sacred, even if you're married for a whole two days it changes you FOREVER.
@Jessica Coen: Dude. They're STILL not going to let you play in their treehouse.
I get it, you don't want to be pigeon-holed as that harpy, humorless, feminist site. It probably hurts when Gawker's commenters pick on Jezebel. But, even though I realize that Jezebel never billed itself as a feminist website, it was reading Jezebel that caused me to learn about and embrace feminism.
Reading Jezebel taught me to recognize and reject bullshit arguments and bullshit viewpoints -- whether they were presented in the mainstream media, or as pseudo-intellectualism in a university newspaper.
Thanks to Jezebel, I ended my subscription to the ladymags I came to realize only reinforced and parroted the messages of misogyny our culture spoon-feeds us.
And, now that Jezebel apparently feels the need to provide bullshit, misogynistic content to its readers, it's time to move on, and leave this site. (IT COMES FULL CIRCLE!).
I get it, you don't want to be pigeon-holed as that harpy, humorless, feminist site. It probably hurts when Gawker's commenters pick on Jezebel. But, even though I realize that Jezebel never billed itself as a feminist website, it was reading Jezebel that caused me to learn about and embrace feminism.
Reading Jezebel taught me to recognize and reject bullshit arguments and bullshit viewpoints -- whether they were presented in the mainstream media, or as pseudo-intellectualism in a university newspaper.
Thanks to Jezebel, I ended my subscription to the ladymags I came to realize only reinforced and parroted the messages of misogyny our culture spoon-feeds us.
And, now that Jezebel apparently feels the need to provide bullshit, misogynistic content to its readers, it's time to move on, and leave this site. (IT COMES FULL CIRCLE!).
@LadyTudorRose: I had the same reaction to Harry dressing up as a Nazi for that party. A commenter above said that it was a "colonists and natives" party (wtf?!?), and that he went as a German colonist. Just typing that makes me want to puke, but it seems as though he was probably poking fun at Germany.
It actually makes me pretty angry when people do stupid, offensive shit in the name of irony. However, true admiration or acceptance for the Nazi party is probably worse than a young, privileged, idiot thinking he's being tremendously clever and failing miserably.
Bigger fail for me is that I still find him sort of hot, despite this. Also, I find hipsters occasionally hot. Will be talking to my therapist about this....
It actually makes me pretty angry when people do stupid, offensive shit in the name of irony. However, true admiration or acceptance for the Nazi party is probably worse than a young, privileged, idiot thinking he's being tremendously clever and failing miserably.
Bigger fail for me is that I still find him sort of hot, despite this. Also, I find hipsters occasionally hot. Will be talking to my therapist about this....
@SilentShout: A small corollary: even a woman a man finds beautiful doesn't need to be beautiful all the time.
I was changing from one pair of jeans to another that I thought would be even more comfortable for a flight. It was 5:00 am. I hadn't showered, and my appearance definitely was not on my mind. My boyfriend, who was watching me, commented (in this weird tone of objective judgment) that I "looked really good." Like he was appraising a wine, or a dress on Project Runway. There was no potential for sexytime, and we were both exhausted. My immediate response was "are you fucking kidding me?! Why do you think I care? I don't need to look good at 5am, for a flight!"
I was changing from one pair of jeans to another that I thought would be even more comfortable for a flight. It was 5:00 am. I hadn't showered, and my appearance definitely was not on my mind. My boyfriend, who was watching me, commented (in this weird tone of objective judgment) that I "looked really good." Like he was appraising a wine, or a dress on Project Runway. There was no potential for sexytime, and we were both exhausted. My immediate response was "are you fucking kidding me?! Why do you think I care? I don't need to look good at 5am, for a flight!"
@SharonBallBearings: Oh I must break out an "lol" for this. I kept getting more confused as I was watching it...the clip you meant to link to sounds delightful.
@SharonBallBearings: Um. That is the meanest, most pointless youtube video I have EVER wasted 2 minutes of my time on. Why would you post what is most likely a "hit" video done by this dancer's bitter ex? Are you the bitter ex?
/really wish I knew how to report trolling
/really wish I knew how to report trolling
@isthatspam: Yes, it's worse to live in a country where legally anyone (any woman?) can be executed for adultery, in addition to being mistakenly executed for more serious crimes than it is to live in a country where you only risk being mistakenly executed for more serious crimes.
Distinctions matter -- it's not a trivial difference.
Distinctions matter -- it's not a trivial difference.
@isthatspam: And here I thought you were going to link a website that would show that the US has executed someone for adultery.
I'm a complete abolitionist for the death penalty, but your comment minimizes the horror of being hanged for adultery when you act as though the US does the same damn thing.
I'm a complete abolitionist for the death penalty, but your comment minimizes the horror of being hanged for adultery when you act as though the US does the same damn thing.
@isthatspam: "Yeah, we generally don't kill people for adultery"
"generally"?
"generally"?
@itstimetopaytheprice: I can't wait until you move Back East either.
/gives finger, moves the eff along
/gives finger, moves the eff along
