That’s insane. It’s hard enough being away from my kid for 8 hours a day. American hypercapitalist logic: make it nearly impossible to have any sort of family life, and then complain that millennials aren’t having kids!

I’m so sorry that happened to you. I taught yoga to veterans who were mostly male, and some of them had PTSD-related issues with sudden touch. I’ve also worked with male athletes who couldn’t handle lots of hands-on adjustments due to sports injuries. Consent should always be part of yoga, for students of all genders,…

Thank you! Asking for consent to make hands-on adjustments in a non-intrusive way during every class is also part of the ethical guidelines of the International Yoga Alliance. Every teacher training I’ve ever taken, delivered or sat in on includes it as a recommendation. That alone is how I know Kest is full of BS.

Yes, and it can be particularly challenging when they are expected to empathize with and meet the needs of women and PoC in a body-centered therapeutic space, when they’re used to seeing these bodies as external objects rather than empathizing with them. I’ve literally hated being touched by some (usually male)…

Yep, I’m definitely Nicolas Cage in real life. Thanks for noticing.

Also anecdata, but I’ve been a yoga teacher and also led teacher trainings and on average have had way more issues preparing male teachers than female teachers. On every count. Not taking directions, lecturing, arguing, lack of empathy for students’ physical and mental limitations, talking too much about themselves…

I guess in every sexual assault story there’s always one victim blaming asshole. Today, it was you!

Oh noooo. Many gym teachers are working around corporate liability issues (or else they never received proper training) but staying at the front of the room is not good teaching. Teachers should circulate the room, watch students’ form, and give verbal and/or hands-on corrections as needed. Effort is important, sure,…

I’ve taken and taught yoga teacher training courses over the years and this is not a standard adjustment. Not at all. This is some dude being a pervert.

When I taught yoga we’d have a short sitting meditation at the beginning of class where everyone’s eyes were closed. It gave students a chance to unwind and for latecomers to settle in, and that’s when I’d ask students to give a physical gesture (like putting one hand on their stomach) if they didn’t want to be…

As a former yoga teacher and practitioner of 15 years, this story is disturbing and dismaying - but I find the headline sensationalistic. In the global yoga community we’ve had some horrible high-profile cases of (usually male) yoga teachers abusing their power, but saying sexual assault under the guise of…

My parents were as religious and conservative as it gets, but I can’t imagine them either of them ever pulling this creepy shit, let alone bragging about it in public. All I got were a few vague lectures about “saving it for marriage” that I don’t recall them giving my brothers. This is so far beyond healthy parenting…

Well to be fair, Stacey Dash and the Fox News chicks are pretty much only hired for their appeal to the male gaze. There’s no equivalent for us, since no one on earth could spank it to the likes of Trump, Spencer, Bannon or Miller (and if someone could, I don’t want to meet that psycho ever.)

Thank you. He’s only being called “dapper” in comparison to his fellow neanderthal skinhead compatriots. In NO other context is a perpetually sweaty, pasty, alcohol-bloated man in rumpled ill-fitting waistcoats and a haircut 20 years too young for him considered “dapper.”

This article is ridiculous. I live in Louisiana and the popularity of Popeye’s (and cheap fried chicken in general) cuts across racial lines.

Yes, people who shop at Walmart eat kale ffs, every super Walmart has kale.

I somehow doubt anyone in the Church’s cared at all about a white person being there. 

Yeah, I live in the deep South and white people are most definitely losing their shit over these stupid sandwiches too.

This article is so petty. Let the woman identify her own internal mental state however she wants. She doesn’t need to represent every single woman in the world, jeez.

It was on St. Philip between Royal and Chartres. But I’m sure it’s not the only weird place in the Quarter, so feel free to add yours too!