It's not OK to hit a porn star stupid

This is fucking disgusting:

http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/how-internet-responds-porn-star-abuse/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=main

This is disgusting for two reasons, firstly the hitting and beating people is never OK; especially if that person is your partner. Violence is wrong; period.

The fact that it happened against a porn actress is irrelevant which brings me succinctly onto the second reasons this is so fucking disgusting; the reactions of the people who’ve commented on this on Twitter: it’s wrong ‘even though’ she’s a porn actress – WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN ‘EVEN THOUGH’ NOOOOOOOOOOOO; I MEAN FUCKING NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, punching people is wrong, beating people is wrong; the profession of the victim has nothing and I mean nothing to do with how unacceptable it is, I cannot emphasise exactly how ‘GRRRRRRRRRR’ I feel on this matter.

Porn stars need loving personal relationships too: what they do must be emotionally exhausting, so they need a special someone to be there for them just as much (and probably more so) than the rest of us. The fact that they have sex on camera doesn't mean that they will be unfaithful to their romantic partners.  If you think being porn star makes someone scum: YOU SHOULDN'T WATCH PORN; you also need to Google the word ‘hypocrisy’.

Sex work is work, sex workers deserve respect.
Stigma Kills (just like it almost did here).
Rant over. That is all.

Pussy Riot member on hunger strike

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/23/pussy-riot-hunger-strike-nadezhda-tolokonnikova

I think that it’s important that everyone who can spare a few minutes takes the time to read this shocking account of life inside a Russian jail.

I’ve heard this quote attributed to everybody from Churchill to Ghandi, so I’m not quite sure who first said it but it’s good advice no matter who said it (evidenced by the fact that some may people seem to have said it):

‘If you want to judge how civilised a nation is; look at how they treat their prisoners’

I’ve never been particularly religious myself, but this is what religion is supposed to be about

http://www.upworthy.com/muslim-america-rocks?c=bl3

Whenever someone associates Islam with killing in conversation I tell them off; I've known some very kind and friendly Muslims in my life, people I've done charity work with and people who've encouraged me in the charity work that I've done.

A few days ago I posted a picture on my professional Facebook page (www.facebook.com/AllanMcleodOnline) of a group on Muslim’s surrounding a church during mass so the Christians inside could pray in safety and a group of Christians surrounding Muslims so they could pray in peace. And here it is, the final proof that Islam is not about killing, violence and patriarchal dominance:

I've never been particularly religious myself but I will defend people who are if it makes them a better person.

Somehow ‘I told you so’ doesn’t quite say it.

I agree with Ste

http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/08/07/an-open-letter-to-david-cameron-and-the-ioc/#

I totally agree with what Stephen Fry has written here, Russia over the past few months has become so militant against the LGBT community that I simply don’t think that they should be allowed to host any international event which could allow them to reflect themselves in good light. A message of solidarity on behalf of the LGBT community from the other governments of the world should most definitely take place in the form of saying stop by taking the Olympics elsewhere.