I feel like Piper is such a good foil, I can’t totally hate her. Her bourgie white lady problems are exactly as obnoxious as they should be.

“and I hardly think it’s a High School teacher’s job to teach kids how to make sex fun” is exactly right. Sex ed is great. But that doesn’t mean you have to teach students about what types of dildos feel good. I’d also venture to say that this is trying so hard to be sex positive that it might have negative effects. I…

I don’t think you can make such a broad statement regarding the abilities or beliefs of “most parents.” In my experience, “most parents” in my realm of existence absolutely understand that their children are, as the parents are, sexual beings. My daughter is thirteen and knows about many facets of sexuality as it was…

I was a pretty sex positive parent and I would have been extremely pissed if I wasn’t asked first (so I could discuss the trip with my child to find out if s/he was comfortable going) and I would be livid if someone presented the retail clerks at a sex shop as “sex educators” to my child.

o what your saying is that is children were acting “inappropriately” in regards to sex, the answer is LESS sex education? Because it might be triggering? You’re saying that children with a history of absuse should be “spared” sex education

They were lucky. If they’d gotten into an accident on the way to the shop, the school would be in a world of legal trouble, and there would have been terrible PR if one of the kids had a family emergency and their parents couldn’t locate them.

This! A million time this. I work with kids who have had all kinds of abuse and trauma in their backgrounds. Discussion of sex has to be very carefully handled, so that they can begin to heal and to understand mature, loving, ADULT sexuality. If even one of these kids has had some sort of sexual trauma in his/her…

How does the dildo library above accomplish either? It is beyond weird and gross for an adult to take a group of kids to a sex shop. It just is. The fact that she did it without parental consent goes beyond the pale.

It's not really either/or. A person can want and appreciate better sex ed, complete with an emphasis on safe sex, consent, and the idea of sex as recreational and STILL not want their kids getting up close and personal with a dildo on a field trip.

Worst fucking season ever. Violet/Pearl/Max/Fame all had an eerily similar aesthetic- like they could have all swapped starlet clothes and been just as happy. I checked out after maybe the 4th episode, caught bits and pieces online, and didn’t even watch last night. That has NEVER happened.

I have a lot of friends who loved him, pre-crowdfunding. I think they actually loved JD, who was probably actually Bill Lawrence. I always felt like I was being a jerk pointing out someone they love is an asshole. So I just said, “Bill Lawrence is cool. Zach has a tiny dog,” and left it at that. Now, though, I could…

This is dating myself but... when I was 10 years old my mother moved us from Philly to Westwood Ca. (a whole ‘nother story but it was actually a case of custodial interference.) Our neighbor in in the Melrose place looking complex was Barbara Barry. She played Gavin Mcleod’s wife on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”. She…

And I totally read that in his voice.

No! Not the Executive Director of the Family Research Council’s lobbying wing!?

Ok, well, I know I only have a laypersons understanding of what I read OH GREAT ONE, but from what I understand

Um, I’m not sure how I was supposed to know that, but okays. Please explain to me then why this would not fall under harassment. Please explain to me how we know for sure that he’s guilty if this never went to court. Please explain to me how her signing a legally binding confidentially agreement and then violating it…

Yeah, I’m sure you are getting, or about to get, the same barrage of “why are you defending a rapist?” crap that I am. These are important questions, and rushing to one side or the other doesn’t solve anything. People are pissed at how colleges handle this, but hello, it is a REALLY complex thing to handle. It’s a…

What you laid out is very interesting.

Because she appears to be about as deep as a mirror? As reflective as a mud puddle? As thoughtful as a coat hanger at a baby shower?

Peachy, that’s super typical behavior for a parent with narcissistic or borderline personality disorders — anyone who comes between the parent and their need to have the child’s full attention at all times is automatically considered evil, in the way, an obstacle. It’s truly not about the wife in this scenario - the…