We all have compulsions. But learning how to control those compulsions is part of being human. I actually have OCD, so I am no stranger to compulsions at all. By your logic, all criminals should be set free. Again, as humans, we are compelled to do certain things, but a person who unable to control these feelings…

Oh, I'm so sorry. What's the deadline for me to submit my paper on the complete history of childhood and child labor with all exceptions noted so that we can have this conversation without you marking me down for not being in your brain?

Most 14 year olds know that it's wrong to kill people. Your argument that he was a child and should be given leeway would only hold up if it was accidental or heat of the moment. This was a premeditated act. He knew it was wrong. He planned it out (brought gun to school) and did it any way. Mental illness only gets…

I'm sorry, but fuck that noise. You can make your valid point without policing someone else's word choice. He can be both a sad product of a toxic society AND a creep and he was.

Oh come now. Stop being disingenuous.

I know there's just so SO much garbage behavior in these messages to unpack, but it's a very specific peeve of mine when I see stuff like "take your meds, see your therapist" being hurled out as some kind of insult.

I always ask a dog's owner if I can pet their dog, and then "ask" the dog by offering the back of my hand. So, if I would literally ask a dog, why shouldn't I ask a kid? "May I have a hug?"

Her daughter isn't avoiding touch. Her daughter is touching on her terms. That sounds healthy to me.

Wow you're really taking Hale at her word, aren't you?

I may be dumb, madame, but in the morning you will still be defending a mediocre author suffering from borderline personality disorder with no boundaries and a dangerously tenuous grasp on reality.

Never dumped hydrogen peroxide on anyone as a teenager (and I doubt you have either). And I don't see the remorse or shame that you do in that article - I see a lot of justifications and rationalizations with a very thin veneer of faux remorse.

You accuse me of being "dumb", yet you seem to grasp none of the actual facts about this incident. THERE WAS NO REVIEW, whether on GoodReads or elsewhere. Where is this supposed "entire blog revolving around a fake persona"? Please link to it here, or else finally get it through your head that this "review" and any…

And I reiterate that Harris never wrote a review for this book on goodreads; she disliked the book so much she stopped reading it and left it at her reading progress notes. Her sole commentary in the actual review section was "fuck this"; snarky but completely within the bounds of normal goodreads entries. Where is…

Again, that doesn't justify assault. Its her tone in conveying that story (not an ounce of remorse) that strikes me. She also write a "humorous" article about how she tortured and killed animals (her pets!) as a child.

There is no evidence of the points you are making here. How on earth is mischaracterizing a book in your own personal reading diary objectionable on ANY level? How on earth do you know photos were stolen? There is no evidence anywhere that Harris followed people around from site to site — care to provide that? I have…

alittletruth: Tastycakes is NOT the "exception", and you have some strangely inflated demands of online reviews. Reasonable folks don't place too much credibility in ANY review they read online, regardless of origin or presentation of the author.

We frequently jail people - even children - for assaulting someone with a chemical agent. Which is exactly what H 20 2 is - a chemical agent. It's used as a bleaching agent in more dilute forms and as a propellant in rocketry in higher concentrations. The solution Hale used, the more dilute form, is still capable…

She…… harassed a woman at her job and showed up to her house. This is not like, collecting horse figurines or only writing letters with a typewriter or some cutesy eccentricity.

She's defending her actions left and right on Twitter. Just because she writes well and can be charming doesn't mean she's acknowledged her wrong-doing. In fact, an abusive person telling the world about their bad behavior in a self-deprecating way is called gas-lighting, and it's a form of aggression against their…

When we call Hale's actions stalking, we're just interrogating reality from the wrong perspective.