So much this. When I was in high school, I was cast as the lead in one of our plays. At one point the director (also an English teacher) asked me to go with him to talk alone in the school’s greenhouse about how my past could be integrated into my role. He told he knew that my biological mother died when I was little…

In the words of Tina Fey (who sometimes gets it right) in her Prayer of a Mother For Its Daughter: “Let her be beautiful, but not damaged - for it is the damage that attracts the creepy softball coach, not the beauty.”

Also the school is apparently hiring a lot of predators. So much so that they know it and would rather police the girl’s uniform than...you know...hiring non-pedophiles.

The obvious double standard here drives me crazy. I’m trying to imagine what the reaction would be if boys were told they can’t wear shorts or short sleeve shirts because it might be distracting to teachers, especially if the rationale were that it’s too distracting to gay male teachers...

Oh my God. I can see her wrists. They are so creamy and delicate. And she’s touching herself! A lady never touches herself in public. And is that... YES. It’s a dab of rouge! What a painted harlot. Plus she was posing for a painter, who certainly defiled her the moment they were left alone.

Ha!

Ugh. There is so much that is wrong in her tweets. She is suggesting that predatory teachers only go after teens or preteens in short skirts or tight tops, etc. But that is false. Many predators choose their intended victims based on them being viewed as less conventionally attractive and thus less credible if they…

A guy said the same thing to me once. He claimed I looked older than 12. Looking back on my 7th grade photos...he was a fucking liar trying to use ‘she looked older’ as an excuse for his predatory behavior. So now I always side-eye that excuse.

“What were you wearing?”

I say knee length skirts don’t take it far enough. We should put girls in burkas.

Oh my God this. History tells us that we can wear the most modest pilgrim outfit ever, and we’re still going to scandalize someone with a flash of sexy, sexy ankle.

The real problem is that we allow girls to go to school at all! With their boobs and legs and various holes that could be penetrated....it’s a recipe for disaster.

Well, personally, I know that when I see a child with a cookie, I’m unable to control myself because hunger is a natural human urge and cookies are delicious.

Presumably those men didn’t know you were 12, they just pegged your age wrong. Badu is talking about male adults working in a school setting knowing that these are children — and their charges.

I’m pretty sure dudes are gonna get ideas no matter how long/short girls skirts are. I refuse to be held responsible for other people’s thoughts, I don’t always like being responsible for my own. I most definitely will not accept responsibility for anyone else’s actions .

I don’t think you’re missing anything, in that THIS situation is healthy. But polygamy in Utah can’t be taken without context. There are many, many, many poly marriages in Utah that DO abuse government assistance, that DO involve coercion and long-term indoctrination, and ARE very harmful to anyone who isn’t a rich,…

So, here’s the thing. The Sister Wives folks are all very weird people. Their weirdness has nothing whatsoever with the composition of their family, but more to do with the fact that four women have chosen to “marry” the same repellant doofus. But whatever... there is clearly something attractive about him somewhere…

“shouldn’t they just try piggy backing on the legalization of gay marriage? I feel like it gets dicey when it comes to things like spousal benefits and tax deductions”

I’m sure it has to do with good old fashioned pearl clutching but a male dominated religion where men marry multiple women raises so many red flags for me that I can’t help but think “good”.

so i can’t have a harem of man??