The article is incorrect. He was 13 when she was arrested. He was her sixth grade student and it’s confirmed she started having sex with him when he was 12, but her grooming began before then. She plead to second degree rape of a child.

He was eleven when it started. ELEVEN.

Yeah, I’d be really interested in hearing how this effected her children, if they wanted to talk about it. They got a double-raw-deal in the parent department.

Also, he was eleven or twelve when it started.

For some perspective, he was in the 6th grade when it started. This is what sixth graders look like.

He was 11 or 12 when it started.

Not only was he sexually violated, he was also put in an impossible situation of being an adolescent father with a woman imprisoned for what his 12 year old brain took to be a consensual relationship. A mentally unstable woman who had continued access to him, allowing her to warp his perspective further. While growing…

The Mary Kay Letourneau story is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay weirdo than most people. Here’s a write up I did on it a while back.

Same. I miscarried, but the one thing the experience of being pregnant taught me is that it’s a big deal to go through it. Meanwhile, a relative who had to spend most of her pregnancies on bedrest said that seeing a 12 week ultrasound made her completely anti-choice. WTF?

Maybe we should start calling it what is is: forced birth, compulsory pregnancy, etc.

Honestly, it's not that interesting. Also, not a honeymoon. We almost our plane to PR from NY because we were told to get on the wrong check in line, and the woman behind the counter was awful, just telling us we'd never make it, so we asked to take our baggage to the plane. She argued with us, a supervisor was…

That poor man!

I went to Martinique literally two weeks before 9/11. I'm not going to go into the saga, but suffice it to say, it wound up taking us two days, four planes and six airports. Also, a couple of hand written boarding passes.

My coworker broke his collar bone on the second day of his honeymoon in Hawaii. He was a trooper, though, stuck it out and swore through gritted teeth that they had a great time.

They handle the housekeeping in my office in a very creative way: by staffing the support roles with the only African-American (bar one) and visibly Latino employees. :-/

I had a roommate who didn't have the free cash that most of us did, so she would say at the beginning of a dinner out that she could afford to split one appetizer and only pay for her own meal and drinks. Then she'd put the exact amount of cash she'd calculated on the table and that was the end of it. If others…

Not to mention, the 1950s middle class lifestyle was often achieved on a single income.

But the costs of things like housing were much lower for your grandparents, as a percentage of their income. They probably have pensions, and your parents probably went to college for little or no money. Baby boomers could often pay for college by working summer jobs. Not only is that impossible now, but working a…

This would make more sense if they based it on average or median BMI among all models, recognizing that some are outliers, and to keep it more in line with how BMI distributes in the absence of eating disorders.

Maybe a good opportunity to circulate a memo on the topic.