Both of your posts were fantastic. Thank you.

in 5 years will it be ok for them to throw an elbow in a womans breast while playing basketball or soccer? How about use their superior size, weight to physically bully them on the field?

They have a response on their Facebook page.

I always try to make decisions based on what I call the Picard imperative: stay cool, keep true to your values and beseech those on the other side of the table to also stick to theirs, but together appeal for compromise.

wait until she finds out that some Hispanic Americans dont speak Spanish at all!

I’m as atheist as they come, but this is the best advice for OP. Dr. Nerdlove’s advice was spot fucking on, but with people like OP the framing of the advice matters. They won’t take it from Dr. Nerdlove (ironic seeing as they submitted this to them in the first place) but they will take this advice from a pastor who…

The fact that you’re hoping somebody tears this guy a new asshole when all he’s doing is offering reasonable advice with a nice heap of stuff that you certainly disagree with but is ultimately harmless says far more about you than him, and I say this as an agnostic.

Nice advice. From a non christian perspective, I think drowning should have seen his pastor rather than posting online.

I’m not sure what kind of answer “Drowning” was looking for asking someone relationship advice who 1)does not share the same faith convictions or 2)ascribes to a “whatever feels good/works for you philosophy” or 3) isn’t even a doctor.

This makes a three-parent kid as much as a kidney transplant recipient is a two-person person. Like…sure, I guess there’s bits from that many people in there, but for real that is not what’s going on.

The rape rate is per year, but rape itself is not like murder; it’s not a purely cumulative crime. You can, in fact, have an extremely high number of rapists and an extremely low number of lifetime rape victims. And it’s entirely possible that’s what’s going on.

I did the math wrong.

It’s completely splitting hairs, rape is rape, but he only digitally penetrated her (as far as anyone knows)

Procedures can vary widely from state to state, and the federal system is its own separate entity. What you’ve linked are the federal sentencing guidelines, which wouldn’t apply in a California case like this one.

Juries typically do not sentence, judges do sentencing. After they return a verdict, the juries job is done—they are not even allowed to know what the potential jail time of the charge is. I know this because I’m a criminal trial attorney.

If we take away judicial perogative, we get bullshit like mandatory minimums and “three strikes” nonsense.

Just don’t confuse modern-day Republicans with conservatives. Because a lot of the noisy Republicans who call themselves conservative are actually right-wing radicals, religious fundamentalists, white nationalists, and so forth.

My best friend and college roommate for three years is a conservative, and was a member of the college Republicans. He was (and is) an exemplary conservative and one whom I wish the party was full of.

DON’T YOU DARE

The response of the students to their meeting with school executives is embarrassing. They’re complaining about a lack of “empathy” from people that are acting professionally. These aren’t their therapists; it’s the goddamn DEAN OF THE SCHOOL..