.... because getting into a shouting match with a 9 year old always ends well?

Ok, lets assume the eloquent 9 year old doesn’t know that Indians are currently referred to as Indigenous People, First Nation, or Native Americans.

It seems to me that if the teacher had in fact mentioned “indigenous peoples” or “Native Americans,” then a better response to the journal would have been something like “Today’s lesson did in fact focus on indigenous peoples (they are not called ‘Indians’) and I’m disappointed that you chose to accuse me of lying…

Without commenting on the complete inhumanity of this kind of bill (and I’d be very interested to hear how these bills would change if Kentucky lawmakers were only permitted 1 term), increasing financial literacy is a commendable goal, if it weren’t coupled to draconian “bootstrap” policies.

I think it’s still pretty simple, even if you can’t read body language or understand more subtle verbal communication, ask and wait for a “yes” rather than waiting for a “no.” The burden shouldn’t be on the other person to say no, that’s not real consent

Glad to see everyone commending a student for using a culturally inappropriate and offensive reference, without even bothering to ask whether the teacher might actually have been right, and the student wrong.

You have no idea if his journal is spot on. That teacher could easily have mentioned “indigenous peoples” or “Native Americans” and because King didn’t hear “Indians” he assumed he was being taught a lie... instead of, you know, a culturally appropriate take on the truth.

I always knew this, but airlines take it way to seriously. I flew international a couple years ago and they wouldn’t let me on my flight because I didn’t have a fully blank, unmarked page in my passport book. Like, some ink had seeped through one page, and despite my book having mostly half-stamped pages, they…

Men can and are harassed, so I have no idea what you mean by ‘only women can decide what harassment is.

Not being able to read subtle cues isn’t a crime but it is a major social disadvantage. Not listening when a woman clearly is letting you know she’s not interested is the actual big deal.

Stop calling us desperate sluts when we are aggressive.

Others have expressed their disdain for #4, but to address the first three - I get all that, and I get that it’s social conditioning and not any one person’s “fault”. But men are also being expected to shoulder the vast brunt of the burden for changing the way we expect social interaction to go down, and that isn’t…

Maybe men are not as likely to complain of harassment from women because you are reasonably less afraid of us than we are of you?

And yet, fairly half the country votes for these policies, so maybe the real solution here is to... you know, vote?

Humans are not computers—there isn’t a simple “input-output” formula, where as long as you do “x,” then you get “y,” as expected. You have to be comfortable with fluidity and uncertainty—this is why social skills can be really hard work for some people.

yes won’t anyone think of the men

yes won’t anyone think of the men

Stop calling us desperate sluts when we are aggressive.

All of which has a fat load of nothing to do with anything I said?

“There is a massive ethical disconnect there; the entire proposition being put forward is that women want attention, but only from the men they want it from”. This is mostly bullshit, because the same is true of men—have you ever HEARD guys talk about being pursued by a woman they think is unattractive?—it’s not…