Hold the phone. Doug Hutchison, a 51-year-old actor (he played Horace Goodspeed on "Lost") just married a 16-year-old.
16.
She's 16.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/434673...entertainment/
Thoughts?
Hold the phone. Doug Hutchison, a 51-year-old actor (he played Horace Goodspeed on "Lost") just married a 16-year-old.
16.
She's 16.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/434673...entertainment/
Thoughts?
...and the milk's in me.
I dunno, man. I'm sympathetic to the spirit of it, but couldn't they, y'know, wait a few years to get married? I'm generally more horrified by the fact that she's 16 and married than the age difference.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
They'll be divorced within 18 months.Quoting Mara (view post)
They compound one another, in my opinion. It's one thing for a child to make a decision of that gravity before she could even, say, sign a legal contract. It's another thing to marry someone three times her age. Put them together, and you're in a world of squick.Quoting number8 (view post)
...and the milk's in me.
Just in time for her to be able to vote!Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
...and the milk's in me.
Honestly, though, if it was a 20 year old marrying a 60 year old, I'd probably just shrug and move on, because while it doesn't feel right to me, I can't find any reason to be against that objectively, so I don't think I should judge.
I just don't trust a teenager's idea of "madly in love."
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Oh, man, I knew she must have an online presence if she's an "aspiring" anything.
Does it make it less creepy that she looks like a forty-year-old who has been heavily smoking for a decade?
Or does it make it worse that when she speaks, it's obvious she's not only a child, but an exceptionally dim one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSUQcX9EMPs
http://www.courtneystodden.com/
...and the milk's in me.
That... That is some 16 year old...
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
I think she looks horrible. But I've never understood that particular "look."Quoting number8 (view post)
...and the milk's in me.
Generally speaking, we're too quick to assume that people under the age of 18 are incapable of making informed decisions. I know we've had this discussion already but consent laws are pretty damn arbitrary.
The adolescent brain is a funny thing. I think certainly most adolescents are not physically or emotionally prepared to make life-altering decisions, and that they should be protected from harming themselves.Quoting Robby P (view post)
As for the minority who could make an "informed decision", what criteria do we have for isolating them? Personally, I'd rather err on the side of caution.
...and the milk's in me.
Good lord. In what universe is that girl sixteen? Blech.
I'm trying to think of the age where I was phyically and emotionally prepared to make life-altering decisions. I might not be there yet. :sad:Quoting Mara (view post)
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
I have a friend, a semi-relative, who is sixteen. He is intelligent, compassionate, talented, and thoughtful.
He is the single nicest sixteen-year old I've ever known. Head and shoulders over where I was at that age.
And if he announced he was getting married, his mother would lock him in the basement for the next four years. And I'd help her. And bring over books for him to read and fresh-baked bread, because I love that kid.
...and the milk's in me.
If you told me that girl was 35 I would believe you.
Now reading: The Master Switch by Tim Wu
Maybe she's lying about her age?
Pam Anderson looks less used up.
...and the milk's in me.
I understand all these words. Just not in that order and with that punctuation.
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
While the girl looks much older, her youtube video is very 16.
jeremiah?Quoting Mara (view post)
Yeah. He's a peach.Quoting romantisaurusrex (view post)
...and the milk's in me.
I thought you hated teenage boys.Quoting Mara (view post)
Most of the girls, too.Quoting romantisaurusrex (view post)
And yet.
...and the milk's in me.
...but I'm a teenage boy. Do you hate me, Mara? Do you?Quoting Mara (view post)
Teenaged boys are so needy.
*eyes elixer suspiciously*Quoting elixir (view post)
...and the milk's in me.
fixedQuoting Mara (view post)