I'm aware of her films, though she didn't fit my specific fetishes (nothing 'creepy', just taste-wise she didn't tickle my fancy).
Still though, this is a great little video, and what I feel is the best way to deal with modern bullying and criticism. She's quite brave to produce this and I only wish there was some way to show support that, coming from a male at least, didn't appear to have strings attached or give the impression of such.
Regardless, I feel extremely bad for her experience but I hope she makes it through her personal trials, graduates, retires from such a rough industry, and goes on to have a very happy and wonderful life in another field of her choosing. Women in that profession don't make nearly enough in exchange for what they give away, let alone relative to the net profit by those that hire them. Most women in this industry deserve to retire as millionaires as far as I'm concerned.

@bobknight33

At least have the courage to own it Bob... don't be a bigot AND a coward!... no one here is going to misinterpret your thinly veiled euphemism for anything other than the blatant bigotry you all to frequently display... just be brave enough to actually own it!...

Truly disgusting....

Went to Xel-Ha just down the road from there in similar weather. If this place is anything like Xel-Ha it's worth braving the lightning to get the place to yourself.

I liked the Hunger Games (first movie) enough that I decided to read the books. OK, but the third one went off the rails a bit and overall I felt like it would be better to try to get the YA audience to read Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, or 1984, all of which still hold up pretty well.

I haven't watched Divergent yet. Would you (or your wife) recommend watching the movie first and then reading (if I like the movie), or going straight to the books?

I finally started re-reading A Song of Ice and Fire, so this would probably have to wait a good while until I finish that, but I don't mind holding off if that would be the thing to do.

looks like a bunch of cops don't like seeing a citizen being brave andhelping others, lol

No, dumbassess....Here's a 'strawman' for yas all:

The terrorists are created by a highly influential and financed cabal of cunts who need attention drawn away from their fascist police-state vision of something worse than Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, and Nineteen-Eighty-Four combined ever thought about being imagined, in order to prepare the world for an end game fist-fuck without lube and wrist-watches the likes of which Bradbury, Huxley, or Orwell could have never fucking imagined in their worst drug-addled nightmares, This potential anything-goes scenario enabled, by willing participants who think they have a clue ready to doubly-assfuck the gullible into thinking that sophistic mumbo-jumbo is some kind of cure.

Get a fucking clue people, you're all cattle to the conductors of the most twisted opera of catshit ever perpetrated on the civilized world.

Now: Are these the words of a "troll" or simply someone with a clue tired of reading the rambling retardation of passionate idiots??

Seconding Artician. The brain evolved by natural selection, just like the rest of the body. It has built in biases and modules that vary genetically. Look at the wide variety of personalities in dog breeds, for example. In humans, the big five personality traits are estimated to be about 50% heritable based on twin studies.

Gattaca is a good movie and Brave New World is a good book, but they should not be taken as the ends of some slippery slope that any eugenic policy inevitably leads to. I think it's unfortunate that so much fear of eugenics is propagated by dystopian fictions like those. Eugenics can be done in a humane way that respects all individual rights. For instance:

1. a system of incentives for highly successful people to have more children or donate to sperm banks.

2. Universal single-payer healthcare, providing among other things free condoms and birth control pills to all, so that the use of contraception will not be so much inversely correlated with income as it has been from 1850 to the present when the poor often couldn't afford it (and it's a demonstrable fact that on average the poor tend to have lower intelligence partly due to genetics)

Even such modest, individual rights respecting policies, if phrased in terms of benefiting the gene pool, are political suicide because people are still afraid of imaginary slippery slopes leading to Hitler. Most of the US is still in denial of the implications of biological science, for reasons that speak well of them, but it's time to grow up and get over that habit of Godwinizing any attempt to improve the gene pool regardless of whether it infringes individual rights.

Or maybe lots of people people don't actually believe that, but are reluctant to say otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0W9sSqeJnA

As someone who can personally relate; if my parents had been that accepting, I wouldn't have all the cuts and burns I do today. I wouldn't have spent my entire childhood and teenage years wishing I'd never wake up. If my parents had been like this, I wouldn't have made my first suicide attempts at age 9.

We need parents like this. Parents who are brave enough to stand by their child and their happiness even when society around them wishes to tear them down.

The RNLI are a worthy cause for donations, while the actions in this video may seem a trivial task to observers it's just another example of volunteers putting their well-being at risk to help others. I've seen some of the footage of rescue operations out at sea and these men and women will brave insane conditions when called upon.

After typing lots of stuff, I realized the rabbit hole would have no end so I'll leave it unsaid, but making this video was an amazingly brave and worthwhile decision on her part as I see it.

Some of it did seem a little too lean a little too much toward "positive experience" which may be necessary for balance I suppose, but nor do I see it as negative. She paid the parking ticket rather than having her life impounded, which is fine and proper and right for her when it came to that, but it's better to put money in the meter and avoid the ticket. Good lord, that's a terrible analogy... or metaphor... or whatever it is.

Sometimes, I have too many opinions. Anyways, I think Emily Letts is a little bit of a hero regardless.

I always found it a thing of respect but to the culture it affects is where the judgment should lie (Remember, I was a kid when I held that view. I always looked up to the Braves. If they hate that term, brave should have no place in our society's sports. Same with redskins and such.)

And why was the woman on the right side of the team? I expected a man to slap the ball out of her hand and run off with it...

Apparently you can't read. They sent Armed Men, after trying to get him to pay several times and after he threatened them with his guns. Maybe you missed that but when Bundy says he and his wife have guns and they're going to "do what needs to be done" they're not talking about Gardening.

Bundy no matter that he's a racist has acted improperly. He is Stealing food for his cattle, even Glen Beck has people paying him Grazing fees for his land. Also the fact that he hasn't paid taxes in 20 years.

He hasn't paid taxes yet still benefits from the government, most specifically there would be NOTHING in Nevada if it wasn't for Big Government Projects like say the Freeway system or The Hoover Fucking Dam.

These Militias certainly aren't in the right, hell they planned to put women and children in front of them so the government would shoot them first. Mighty brave, I think Al Queada uses the same tactic. They're not crazy, maybe a little off, but they're certainly not right about this.

The government isn't assfucking people by protecting land and charging for grazing. It's perfectly reasonable, otherwise you can be the first asshole to start dumping oil all over Yellowstone National Park.

Oh Bob, how I envy you. The world must be such a nice place if you can view it only in black or white. Binary thinking must be easy on the synapses.
Here's one thing I don't understand, though. Maybe you can help me out.
Why do you hate liberty so much?
I mean, you're an american, right? Land of the free, home of the brave?
Home of the Liberty Bell? The country whose most famous landmark is called the "Statue of Liberty".
Why so much hate the most american thing? I always wanted to asked somebody who's so obviously republican as you.
Here's something I found on Wikipedia:
"Liberalism is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally they support ideas such as free and fair elections, civil rights, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free trade, and private property."

Hmmm... generally supporting following ideas:
- free and fair elections (voter id laws and voting fraud prevention)
- civil rights (Dude! Don't tread on me!)
- freedom of the press (concern about lamestream media and "liberal bias" in the media)
- freedom of religion (for example the freedom of teaching children creationism)
- free trade (capitalism yay!)
- private property (for some reason the name "Ron Jeremy" came to mind but I think I got the name wrong)

I can understand a dislike for equality (come on, slaves are super useful) but not for liberty. Not if you're a true american.

Shouldn't you call yourself a liberal? Is it just a weird closet you're in?

Yeah, wow, that price. That's pretty brave of them.

Well holy shit was the band of Penguins who thought to travel that far... migrating if you will, BRAVE or STUPID or DRIVEN ! ! !

But damn, how did one get to the other ? perseverance!