Let's get this party started.

Is it slut shaming if you're shaming someone who's probably twelve? I mean, slut shaming is supposed to be bad. But 12-year-olds, boys and girls, shouldn't be wandering off to sex up older partners.

I actually respect the mom for laying the hammer down and selling the tickets. I don't respect her airing her daughter's dirty laundry in public like that.

Congratulations, this is the post that made me stop postponing getting my daughter Gardasil. I don't mean that in a judgy way - everybody's gonna do what they're gonna do. I'm just saying that my daughter doesn't run with a precocious crowd, but a parent never knows.

Virgin™. But very excited to read this nonetheless.

thank you for pointing out the pressure to be a hard partying slut, as soon as I realized that it was ok not to go crazy drinking, partying, hooking up, I was so much happier. Your post is perfect.

But Anastasia Steele had an earth-shattering orgasm on like every other page – for three books straight!

I agree with the theory behind this, HOWEVER...

It always creeps me out how these people write like Son of Sam. It's not enough for them to be creepy, sexist racists, they have to make you imagine some reporter slowly easing the letter out of the envelope with tongs.

I really appreciate the points you make in your second paragraph; in my understanding I was definitely glossing over the way that other authorities police and problematize the parents' behavior and lack of involvement. And thus, the difficulty broad public policy faces in adequately serving all parties involved...

I'm willing to grant parental oversight in many of the ways that you describe, but I simply cannot agree that a parent has the authority to compel their child to carry a pregnancy to term and birth a child simply because that child is under 15. And this handling of the law creates that possibility.

Unfortunately, parental involvement can in itself become access prevention; the parents may impose religious beliefs upon the child and require her to carry the pregnancy even at her own immediate physical risk. And the situation becomes especially fraught if disclosing the pregnancy may result in abuse (or if,…

Agreed. This is why it's best to avoid self-deprecation on first dates and job interviews.

So, I take it that you don't write for a living? This reads like the freshman philosophy papers I have to grade. You didn't name names- You could have at least embellished a little bit to make it relevant.

Okay, if you tell a guy, "I don't know how to dress for straight men, I usually only dress for gay men and women so I didn't know what to wear on this date," don't be surprised and/or mortally offended if he gives you his personal opinion as The Voice Of The Straight Man. Because it really sounds like that's what you…

I'm pretty sure that the Dowager Countess is less exacting when it comes to her interactions with "the help."