The way you worded those thoughts were condescending though and in keeping with how many men speak to women in the first place.

I didn't realize Emily Post had risen from the grave.

Don't tell women how they should respond when someone's being a dick to them. It makes you look like a dick.

Because if skirts didn't exist, this sort of behavior would suddenly be considered unacceptable?

I'm not trying to put words in Lindy's mouth here, but what I took from her "rant" (really, a reasonable paragraph or two about the situation) is that this isn't an isolated incident. You mention that "the school needs to figure out how to work on teaching the boys respect for women" but it isn't just this particular…

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Violating a woman in a sexual way is unlike rape how?

People can also be balls deep in rape culture and think that something like this isn't nearly as big of a deal as it is. Especially when it's dudes who never actually have to worry about this shit happening to them...

This has nothing to do with this prank, but that jumped out at me. It's illegal to put things in people's mailboxes? I'm going to go file charges against my neighborhood association.

I pretty much agree with this reply. And I hope I didn't seem like I was saying that I'm so much cooler and more laid-back than girls who were traumatized by this letter because they were raped recently, or because their parents made them get their hymens inspected, or because they weren't virgins and were afraid…

Also, can we point out that if a guy is willing to do this, he's also probably more likely to actually commit some sort of sexual assault? Because I see more than a tenuous parallel there.

Honestly, though, actions have consequences. If the schools decide they don't want kids who do this shit on campus, well, I think they should have that option.

I would totally laugh this off, too Emma. But my personal reaction (or yours) are not the barometer by which we gauge incidents like this off of. At least I hope it's not. I have a very high tolerance for comedy, jokes, etc. personally. When something doesn't make me uncomfortable doesn't mean it's OK for me to…

Hey, if the colleges agree with you that it was "harmless" than no futures will be ruined. If, however, they decide that they would rather not have someone capable of this on campus than the authors of this prank will have ruined their own futures.

No Michaelangelo was just gay. Like super gay.

"UUUGGGGGGHHHHH, for shit's sake. No good deed goes unpunished, AMIRITE??"

I think the cat is bored of being told how great she is because every cat everywhere is thinking "I am great" pretty much all the time, so none of this is news to her.

What is sad is that the neighbor did not keep his dog properly on his property.