I haven't had time to read the whole piece yet but I wanted to touch on a point that I saw that is very important: while this is a rare thing to encounter in team sports because teams are usually gender-specific, this does happen in other co-ed spaces.

I know child molesting is not what this article or discussion is about, but I have the same reaction to child molesting stats. We teach our kids "stranger danger" but the reality is that kids are much more likely to be molested by an acquaintance. And that goes across the board, the more I think about it. Most of us…

It was a fantastic article. They only thing i find troubling is that most women who are raped are raped by people they know yet the prevailing idea is its only strangers and athletes who raped. You did a great job of touching upon that in your article i just worry that people have these "stereotypes" about what a…

As an avid BJJ practitioner, I just want to commend your take on the nature of the violation an incident like this poses to a gym and the BJJ community in a broad sense (in addition, obviously, to the extreme violation experienced by this young woman).

Thank you for reading it. It's actually part of a series I'm trying to write about the way we talk about rape in the sports world.

Here's another good discussion of the term ... http://rantagainsttherandom.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/so-…

I totally quie Facebook almost a year ago. I didn't make a big production of it. I didn't tell anyone. I didn't post a "goodbye cruel world" note about it, just deleted my account very quietly one night because I realized I was allowing myself to get caught up in weird ex-husband drama and rather than mass-unfriending…

That is a porkpie. Not the same thing at all.

Have you ever gotten a car from a your daughters friend's dad? And then had your daughter freak out because she knew it was her friends car?