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Jerry and Mike - Did Mike's struggle with the Dickwolves debacle strain your personal or professional relationship? Is it still a sore point for either of you, or is it something you've moved past?

Are there any other controversies the site/comic has endured that feel similar? How much do you struggle with knowing supporters/detractors/critics/etc can go overboard (make threats) - and does that ever create pressure to self censure?

EDIT: Already with the silent downvotes. It's hard to be critical for some, isn't it?

Thank you! The Supreme Court aside - there are also large differences between the candidates. For someone to say "I can't tell who is worse, Trump or Clinton" and expect to be taken seriously as a candidate speaks to how they view their campaign. Can you imagine if Sanders said that, the shit he'd catch? Jill Stein knows she is running a joke campaign, and that really sucks, because I think the Green Party is the party that best represents my interests.

Another thing - I'm a Bernie guy, but holy fuck he at least ran a solid campaign. He has detailed policy positions. More than I can say for Jill Stein.

Compare her plan: http://www.jill2016.com/plan

To Sanders: https://berniesanders.com/issues/

To Clinton: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/

To Trump: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions

1. Sanders and Clinton both have detailed plans to move us forward.
2. Clinton and Trump are so wildly different Stein's comments are all the more laughable.

Hi, can you speak to the rights of women in your tribe?

Do you practice female circumcision? Are women allowed to get abortions or use birth control? Do women have the same access to education and career opportunities as men? Do women get the same say in society as men? Do they have the same right to free speech? Can a woman decide who she marries? What is the minimum age for marriage?

Related - as an unlicensed therapist, have you ever felt over your head, or like you hurt more than you helped?

You don't need to be in someone's shoes to know radically reducing a woman's ability to feel pleasure, and giving her a lot of health risks including during childbirth, is wrong.

It IS brutal. There is no excuse.

EDIT: Yes I have left my home country, yes I see the problems in it and work hard to fight it. Whataboutism isn't a defense, for my own country's misogyny or for anyone's. Piercing or mutilating babies is brutal - there is no consent. Attacking LGBT people or their rights - utterly evil and without defense.

I am glad OP is seeing things change, I would just like to see a response (within my own country as well) of these practices stopping - without excuses. I don't know enough about OP to really say where he falls in this - he could be one of the people pushing hardest for women's rights among the Maasai. But to say we cannot judge the practices of others, or ourselves, without being arrogant? That judgement is how we come to see what is right and wrong, and how all change occurs.

I hope with all my heart the Maasai change how they treat women fully, and I hope my own country (the US) throws off the shackles of Christian culture that hurts women and LGBT brutally. For my part, I will do what I can to push for this sooner instead of later, and I will never excuse it. I do not and will never judge a Maasai as an individual based on their culture, just as people of the world generously do not judge me for being American. But in a public discussion of the Maasai, we all owe it to the Maasai women to make sure their treatment is part of that discussion. This isn't arrogance. It is humanity.