Also to your claims of innocuous statements in that street harasser video - when the woman doesn’t respond, those innocuous statements become angry at the rejection. “You don’t want to talk? Smile! I’m just being nice.” That’s objectively harassing behaviour.

I’ve been asked out on the street at random by very attractive men, and I was flattered because they were attractive but also I was like “what’s wrong with them that they are approaching a random woman on the street?” It’s odd behaviour, even if in a different setting I would be receptive to it. Also to your claims of…

I’ll give you that it’s complicated, but generally speaking nobody is going to raise a fuss if you politely ask a woman you know out once, she declines, and you don’t approach her again.

Honestly, if you don’t know the difference between harassment and an appropriate suggestion related to acceptable socialization, you may be an abuser/rapist.

I have heard several men make this sort of comment recently about how they could possibly be expected to discern between an appropriate and an inappropriate gesture of interest in a woman. As if the two are so terribly similar that one might “accidentally” harass a woman. Like, how could any well-meaning gentleman…

They should still do season 6, sans Spacey, focusing on Claire’s presidency. She was always the MVP.

It’s the same burden we place on victims of domestic abuse, whether the abuse is physical or not. No one wants to acknowledge that abuse can happen to anyone no matter how smart they are, what their socioeconomic level is or what background they came from. If you’re a victim of abuse, it’s because there has to be…

You’re right that probably more was going on but I also respect her right to lie to the public to protect her personal health information and her dignity. It’s really no one’s business. Maybe it’s just because I have a personal connection to mental illness (clinically depressed) but something about covering…

Did she go to high school?

It also could have been wearing off by the time the authorities got there. I’m glad she’s ok.

I wouldn’t say “lesson” as she didn’t really need to “learn” from what is entirely the predator’s fault; it’s not her fault that someone drugged her. Because whenever people get raped they think it’s some sort of a cautionary tale, which it isn’t. When rapists plan to rape, it can happen no matter how “careful” and…

I fear in Trump’s America, this predatory action is going to get even more prevelant.

I’m gonna need a magnifying glass and a pair of tweezers for that.

It’s actually okay to offer someone work for exposure but you have to be someone people care about.

the stylist is used to a certain lifestyle as well, getting paid for her services.

Oh, someone accused me of being a “special snowflake” the other day when I expressed that people were scared not just for their safety but for their *lives* so I snapped

I’m not Catholic— I wasn’t raised with any religion, though I guess grew up in a predominantly Protestant social circle— and I barely made it through the first episode because the Trump-as-Pope joke seemed a bit too smug for my taste. And, you know, I don’t need to watch a TV show about a conservative douchebag who…

As a cultural Catholic who’s lapsed for some legitimate (annoyance with the members of the clergy who DO think they’re God and bad handling of abuse cases) and lame (my favorite priest only does the 8AM Sunday Mass and I just can’t get up that early on a Sunday and I don’t like the other guy at the 10AM one), I…

It’s taken the Voyager spacecraft 30 years just to reach the heliopause, the edge of the solar system, and it’s maybe the size and weigh of a washing machine.

Is there a conspiracy that turned TED Talks into extended sales pitches for the speaker’s books?