Huh, I always thought people wore bathing suits for swimming. Being around water in bathing attire is a signal you want people to approve of your body? Why assume people care how they look? If a woman is really hot she probably cares what people think, but most people aren't really hot.

Oh fuck off with your entitled "women have to look fuckable for me" attitude. You are the fucking problem, asshole.

And here's where you're oh-so-mistaken, sugar...by thinking that people actually give a fuck what you think, how you feel, or how their bodies make you retch/not-retch/boner-not boner. Get over yourself. You're really not that important, in the grand scheme of things.

I think bald men are repulsive so, what, they should just wear hats all the time to avoid offending my delicate sensibilities? Do you realize how childish that sounds?

Can you explain why I should give a fuck what "good looking guys" think of me in a bathing suit? I mean, can you really explain why someone's negative opinion of the appearance of my body should matter, and why it should matter more if they are "good looking"? Please. I'm all ears.

If what others are doing is so distracting, that you're gonna let it spoil your good time... well, you're gonna have a real bad time.

If you don't do things in public that make you look stupid, why the fuck are you commenting on Jezebel? Because let me tell you... you look like a goddamn moron.

It could be jarring if you're the only person of color in class. These examples happened in lit classes so it's probably different, but there were several times when I was kind of slapped across the face with racist things in the text and I felt so incredibly embarrassed because there was no one to commiserate with…

I used to weigh 453lbs. NOW I weigh 165lbs. Many people look at me dressed and might think I totally rock a bikini but the reality is that I make a far better mannequin after massive weight loss than I do a nude model (or even partially nude in a bikini model). My knees and legs are particularly bad since I used to…

who decided that those things are "unpleasant" and "misfortunate"? its part of life and part of actual women's bodies.

As a woman with stretch marks, scars, and cellulite, I say you should go rock that body!

Because of our modern PC bubble we live in..Im a black guy born in 1984, and I hadn't seen blackface until almost the 8th grade. BTW I don't see the jarring as a bad thing, in fact I think our kids would benefit from a jarring look at our ugly history, I think the fear is backlash against the status quo.

Fat-lovers go to the beach to, dude. Why would you deny them their eye-candy when you get yours?

"Oh, is this offensive? I had no idea! If only we had a teacher to educate us on such things!"

I mean, that's nice and all, but I am a "real" woman and I am covered in stretch marks, scars, and cellulite. So we need to go one step further and really look at plus size bodies in real life and what they look like and what women's insecurities might be!

Here's hoping none of the students decide to protest Barron's suspension by showing up to school in blackface.

It is jarring. Almost as jarring as learning your nation's Founding Fathers considered you to be 3/5's of a person, or the horrors of slavery, or lynchings. He's teaching history. Racism is very much a part of that history, and all of that is jarring. Not sure why he would contact parents on this one particular…

Large parts of history are quite jarring, and should be, to everyone. Middle school is usually when you start getting into atrocities in greater detail- the holocaust, slavery, the treatment of native peoples, the subjugation of women, realities of war, etc. It's going to be tough to see and hear that stuff, and…

There's really not enough context given here, or in the article cited. There are non-racist ways to show blackface videos in class, and there are racist ways to do so, and it's really hard to tell which kind this was.

Did they inform the kids what they were going to show? It can be quite jarring to watch that if you're a child of colour, especially if you've experienced racism in the past so maybe they should have let the parents know? That being said I support this 100%, we must show all form of the violence that comes with racism…