Confused Gay.

Waitress taking my order: Such arrogance! Not only do you presume to boast under the guise of being humble, but your order employs the most decadent of linguistic excesses - the tautology!

My date, who until recently thought "tautology" referred to the study of tensile strengths and upon learning her mistake compensated by reading through its Wikipedia article: That would be more correctly identified as a "pleonasm".

The editor I hired to curate my posts who styles himself as a sort of scheming court advisor: My liege, this one is getting away from us. The punchline loses much of its impact when the rest of the joke is derailed by this increasingly self-indulgent meta humour. Were it up to me, your Grace, which of course it is not, I would cut the others and leave myself as the only supporting character. You need noone else, Your Majesty...

and during the final party, this success, the popular girl looks at her new friend and realizes that she had spent all her money, sold a bunch of her favorite objects, gave away clothing-

"Shit," she says, in the middle of the chaos, in the middle of the flashing lights and bumping beat and friends she's had since middle school. "You're gonna kill yourself."

"I'm going to keep throwing parties, so you better keep coming. They aren't going to be as cool as this one, but they'll all have ice cream cake, so-"

they both laugh.

"-They're gonna be fun as fuck. You gotta come."

And theres a montage, probably the Charli CCX's Party 4 U, despite that being very on the nose. of popular girl standing in the middle of different parties. In the flashing lights, in the middle of dancing, in a crowd, still. waiting. Its different locations, the amount of people dwindles in each one, the lights slowly mellow into just a dim ambient look. The ice cream cake is there, melting in each scene. at the end, she's just sitting on a couch, full cake in front of her. her legs are tucked up on the couch and she's just watching her glass of wine. years have passed. she's an adult now in her own apartment. alone.

and the door opens off screen, keys hit a bowl.

Prevent recidivism

Provide access to therapy

Address familial sex abuse

Differentiate between an adult abuser and someone who sexually harmed a fellow child when the themselves were a child

Differentiate between someone who knew what they were doing and someone who has a mental disability that rendered them incapable of understanding what they did

Differentiate between someone who flashed a child and an unhoused person who had to pee outside

Direct any of its very expensive resources to victim care

Things the registry does do:

Prevent registrants from wearing Halloween costumes

Prevent registrants from using a sidewalk if it passes through a public park

Is basically entirely structured around the concept of stranger danger

Places complex and often impossible restrictions on housing which means one of the most common places of residence for sex offenders is homeless shelters

Deprive registrants of gainful employment

Allow horrific abuse of registrants by law enforcement, including - get this - sexual assault

Put people in desperate situations where success is impossible and they are in such deep anguish that hurting someone else and going back to prison seems reasonable

Increase mental trauma