my irl bff is someone i met online bonding over harry potter. i actually have like, a good half dozen (if not more) friends i have met online. i regret nothing.

Try again. The point is that if Redditors were truly concerned about privacy, they'd be pissed when *anyone* violates someone's privacy.

I don't mind morons on Reddit; I'm more concerned with your pro-bono, ersatz lawyering on those morons' behalf in this Jezebel comment thread. The arguments you've put forth to defend the people who gleefully trade in, comment on, and masturbate to ill-gotten photos of women while denouncing the NSA are themselves…

Your argument is false. This isn't a nip slip. This is the deliberate, systematic and criminal invasion of multiple women's privacy, property and bodies.

That is why consent must be "continuous." If a woman happily obliges to a blow job and then is resistant, stiff, combative, crying, or attempting to end the encounter while her male partner proceeds with penetration, she had followed up consent to one activity with a refusal to anther.

Yup. After he forcefully slammed his seat back and into my bad knee, I was a dick in return. Not that it was hard, I literally had no other place to put my legs other directly into the seat back.

Why yes, it is pretty damn n hard to have a hard surface hammed into your knees and inches from your nose for three hours.

Do we REALLY need to have a conversation about the history of American Indian boarding schools run in this country for hundreds of years and their policy of forcibly cutting children's hair in direct violation of their native cultures in an effort to destroy their identities and reshape them as good little Christian…

I sat behind someone like that last year. Even better? Dude was in the emergency exit aisle so he had ALL THE LEG ROOM. I said, "Excuse me, could you not recline because your seat is in my knees" and he pretended not to hear me. So then I wiggled and bounced and shifted my legs as much as possible through the entire…

In principal this sounds nice but in practice it seems it could make the majority of sexual encounters rape.

I think you're imagining consent to be something like "Do you wish to engage in sexual relations, confirm or deny?"

And plenty of women have had their lives ruined by having the audacity to say they were raped. Even with video/picture evidence. So pardon me if I don't pour one out for the men.

If you read the language of the bill, which I am sure you did not, you'd see that affirmative consent is not necessarily defined as "affirmative verbal consent." It's defined as "an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement" by both parties to engage in sexual activity. Consent can be nonverbal; California…

Hehehe, those 2 paragraphs just filled 5 spaces on my College Rape Bingo card! Keep 'em comin'!

Do we really believe that women, and men, are going to start asking for verbal consent in all their encounters?

Frankly, you don't have to even be really tall for this to be a problem. I'm 5'9" and my knees are jammed into the seat in front of me when it's fully upright, on virtually every airplane. People who recline hate sitting in front of me.

Once I had a woman on a flight try to recline her seat but couldn't get it to work. She kept trying & slamming her chair into my already cramped kneecaps. After attempt 6, she peered around the seat to see my eyes filled with HATEFIRE.

If I ever have to recline my seat, I only do it just a smidge to try and be considerate. My husband who is 6'4 is so nice he will sit cramped in his seat and not recline. It's a lose/lose for him in being courteous to the person behind him, because the person in front of him always reclines their seat all the way and…

There's no winning. The seat in front of you is so close that you're practically banging your knees. But the seat backs are designed so badly that if I don't incline them backwards at least a couple inches, my back will cramp for days. Did anyone who made them even look at a human spine? Everything about airline…

ARE PEOPLE JUST NOT AS WORRIED ABOUT SEPSIS AS I AM?