The bright side of "the hard way" is that, as you say, at least he didn't get it from you.

This, this, a thousand times this. GOOGLE YOUR DATES! I just had one guy refuse to give me his last name. Closed him. Others have turned up criminal backgrounds, including sexual harrasment and assault. I now do not give my phone number or off-site email until they have given me their full names.

I only ever meet people in public locations, I always arrive and depart in a different direction from where I live (I basically will loop around several blocks to avoid being tailed), I have a 2 drink maximum, and I always have multiple friends that check in with me and/or that I meet up with afterwards. So I'm pretty…

I was practicing a blue-belt level of Google-fu on prospective (and actual, if I was introduced via mutual Bacon degrees) dates waaay before Match.com started turning up registered sex offenders and financial scammers on the regular.

I'm sure they will catch Monty Emu. He's not much of a flight risk.

Yes, I am female.
Yes, I have been stared at.
Yes, it made me uncomfortable.
Yes, I have been groped.
Yes, I have been cat-called.
Yes, I've been sexually assaulted.

I'm fairly certain I "stare in a sexual way" every time I see a brownie.

I think Shia wants to be having fun, may even BE having fun, but I sort of get what you mean with the Joaquin comparison. Case in point - although his outward demeanor and general way of carrying himself makes Joaquin come across as a "serious" guy pretty much all the time (not just during his performance art thing),…

I will always remember her saying "She's fat. I'm fat. You're fat. We're all fat." Then she slammed her head on the table. I couldn't hate her after that.

I'd be shit out of luck even if I'd wanted to get married right after college, because I magically started getting tons of sexual attention only after I hit my 30s rather than 20s (bless Susan Patton's little heart).

Picking shit out of my skin and watching others pick shit out of their skin is insanely satisfying for me. I can't explain it.

I'm not a cow, and my vagina is not milk, and my boyfriend is not a customer.

It's harassment. Even if this boy isn't charged with anything, he should be kicked out of school. He didn't write smutty fan-fiction. He posted a classmates name on a school forum and encouraged others to rape her. He told people where she lived. He did this to intimidate her. If he was just telling a friend verbally…

I dont understand what is wrong with it, seems to be fine to me.......and who the hell spends that much money on a wedding video!

What the hell is she complaining about? Oh man this makes me angry, I already hate weddings.

Not commenting on the death penalty in particular but this woman fits the exact bill of a violent sociopath (AntiSocialPD, whatever you want to call it). Torture and abuse to "weaker" people (the mentally-disabled victim and the abuses against her daughter); lying to garner sympathy (a lot of sociopaths use pity as a…

You would think a professional art photographer would know how to take that shot without having the flash bounce off the floor/background like that.

Did they find that background on a defunct geocities page from 1997? Because that's what it looks like.

Yes. I get it. You've said it 3 times. And no holding your daughter's hand isn't a red flag even if she is a teenager.
It seems to me that you are reading into the picture to make it fit "everything we know about Woody Allen".
I'm not arguing that he isn't a creep and a child molester. I'm arguing that the picture…

I'm a survivor and I've worked with teen sex offenders and child & teen victims throughout my career. I'm not forming my opinion flippantly.
There's just nothing damning in this photo.