If women in general started shouting, "Federal marshall, STOP!" whenever getting randomly groped, would that be a crime (impersonating an officer)?

Well, it works for some people.

Oh yes, I'm white. And trust me, I know that plays no small role in my statement - I teach classes on hate speech, critical race theory, etc.

Party in Mark's nose - everybody's invited!

"Danger Zone."

To be fair, I'd much rather live in the US's current sham democracy than in Russia's.

Agreed.

Exactly - this is hyper-controlling in any relationship structure.

Gaaahhhh... I've been practicing ethical non-monogamy for over a decade now, and this is exactly the kind of thing that sends up massive warning flags whenever I encounter it. It almost always happens when a previously monogamous couple decides to open their relationship, but one partner is either not happy about the…

I was thinking for a bit that maybe some kind of threshold system could be put into place, where if you get, say, a minimum of 50 or 100 stars on a given comment, you automatically get bumped to "followed" by the site you posted to.

Heh.. when I teach public speaking, I have a bit where I say, "There's one thing Americans have a particularly hard time dealing with when communicating with each other."

Less skin lightening, more skin lightning!

During grad school I worked in a parking booth at the university hospital. It was usually a great job, I always took night shifts so that I was basically being paid to study. Nothing ever happened, really.

This brings up an important aspect of physical abuse that we don't often talk about: that for many women, an attack that affects their appearance is also effectively an attack on their livelihood.

There are probably going to be a lot of cosmetic surgery costs that wouldn't be covered under most insurance, and the dental costs alone are probably going to be huge (I don't know about you, but I've never seen an affordable dental plan that covers much beyond routine visits).

Just adding my voice to the chorus of people that are

Is posting this story some sort of weird internet-judo "use your opponent's moves against them" type maneuver for Das UberGifTroll?

The main point you're trying to make is definitely one I agree with, and my sincere respect to you for accepting your mistakes. I know I've posted any number of things over the years that in retrospect I wish I'd put differently, the difference being I rarely really owned up to them in public. Kudos!

I teach about the complex problem of differentiating between institutional racism and individual bigotry, so I understand what you're trying to get at.

The Mass Effect style armor is huge improvement, imho. I've been happy to see Marvel quietly revising many of its more prominent female heroes with more practical outfits, I wish they'd gone all the way with that in the movie.