This explains the disco ball with a note attached that got thrown through my window last night!

I'm so proud of this kid I don't even know. I wish more parents raised their sons to be like him.

That kid's alright.

Parents seemingly raised him right. To many kids will think "Yeh, hes a dick, but im not going to turn on my friend". Takes a lot of balls to do that, especially for a teenager.

Yes, thank you to that kid for being a friend and ally to Grace, and showing that teenage boys ARE capable of being caring human beings.

Yes, that kid deserves a big-ass cookie! It is heartening to know that there are some right-thinking boys out there who haven't swallowed the whole rape-culture message, and who call others out on their behavior. Also must've taken some guts for him to do that.

Maybe Camille Cosby is standing by Bill for a reason entirely different than one considered out here. Maybe she believes him. Not because it's rational, but because it's easier to believe the word of a person you know and love than it is to believe the word of a stranger, or 15.

Please forgive my ignorance but I'm a bit uninformed as to Cosby's defense.

No snark; I applaud this woman's courage in coming forward, even if it is decades after the assault. Despite all the nasty things that people are going to undoubtedly say about her, I hope she feels a sense empowerment in finally being able to share her story.

I think the pageant is a little too ridiculous for the Ninja Warrior course to be warranted.

Well, lots of the photos would be blurry because the photographer would keep having to turn away to avoid the horror of seeing two people of the same sex kissing. The "first kiss" photo would be of the photographer's shoes. Ninety percent of the photo album would be of a potted plant in the corner.

You better hop in your time machine and get on that then.

There are probably another hundred or more women with a virtually identical story to tell. Which is awful beyond belief and makes me feel so fucking sick too my stomach. There's something particularly horrible about coming to midway through the rape - I say this having experienced it from both sides, conscious all…

it is really a relief to be 40 and have three kids that turned my body into a soft serve cone, and finally be invisible to men.

First, I adore your user name. I have an anecdote too about obnoxious men being shut down and while it's a funny story, it has genuinely changed the way I feel about and respond to harassment. Growing up and through my twenties I was conventionally attractive but also quite shy, and with a serious case of resting…

I can attest to the ubiquity of assholes who assume that I am a prostitute on account of my Slavic provenance or that I'm lusting after every single dick out there. I was once asked if I was actively looking for a husband. At an academic party. After my inquisitive interlocutor learned that I am a Ph.D. student…

I acknowledge this, and I acknowledged it. I have never, not ever refused to acknowledge the male privilege I was granted. As I said before, privilege is privilege, even if it is unwanted, and even if it comes at the intersection of lacking a different privilege (cisgender privilege). My lack of cisgender privilege is…

I am beyond glad that I never had to be 14 and deal with a 40 year old making suggestive comments.

If his handlers are putting him out in public while the situation is viral, it is not the journalists' responsibility to handle him with kid gloves. It would have been irresponsible to avoid the issue. It actually would have really pissed me off. This is NPR, not TDS or Colbert.