In my second year of teaching, I had a boy in my kindergarten who had little self-control and kept hitting other children. His mom showed up one morning to pick him up, so I brought her aside and told her about his behavior. She said that she would give him a "whupping" so that he wouldn't do that anymore.

Hi, my major is in Early Childhood development (with a concentration on Elementary and Adolescence), and I'm just going to say it: spanking is bullshit. You know why it's obviously bullshit? Because you have to keep doing it. If your kid keeps getting his or herself into trouble constantly and you keep hitting…

Well for starters whether somebody feels violated or not is up to them, not you, and is a case of personal feeling not legal technicality.

As an "actual rape victim" I can see how people would suffer from having their sexual agency taken away from them, it's a shame you can't do the same.

Because you are using someone for sexual satisfaction without their consent and against their wishes, probably leaving them feeling victimized and violated.

If you can look at those pictures and think she's going to have trouble getting attention from hot young 20 year olds as well, I don't know what to tell you.

Well, let's just starting calling Senator Martin a kidney host.

That's kind of like calling all accidental drownings suicide because "You were near water! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?"

Isn't it fairly reasonable to expect that it won't happen if it's 99.99 percent unlike not to? Then it's unexpected. I may have a greater chance of being hit by a car crossing the street but people won't say, "Well, she should have expected that might happen today because she chose to cross the street."

When you had that sex, did you intend to wind up pregnant as a result? No? Then it's an unintentional pregnancy.

I assume herpes, genital warts, and the effects of AIDS aren't?

Yeah, but does he get a book deal and a ring out of it?

It also can't hurt that Kerri favors Shane from The L Word.

Why, exactly, does it have to be a contest between which is worse? So letting rapists walk free is worse, so that makes it automatically OK to lock up victims who have difficulty with the process? That kind of over-simplification of these types of issues always bothers me. That's not how we have to deal with these…

The popularization of reiki is based solidly in the orientalization and exoticization of the other, and while that doesn't mean that any individual practitioner of reiki is an Orientalist, the language that the letter writer uses ("she's truly on a higher wavelength") is fairly damning.

1. Poor long term thinking. There's decades of stories where some former porn actress can't live a normal life, have a job, etc because of their porn.

No, he's an exhausting fucking troll.

You're a sexual predator.