I am a fucking hug enthusiast, and this made me want to crab crawl away from my screen. NO.

Yikes. That is awful. I worked in the courts for a year before moving into civil litigation practice, and it’s rough. I wanted to believe Canada was so much better at dealing with sexual violence than, say, the States - but it’s not.

Overcoming resistance by choking is a legislated offence under the Criminal Code of Canada s. 246, so your quibble is with the federal legislators who passed that section into law, rather than with the writer.

The first person to tell me this December that the Montreal Massacre wasn’t an act of misogyny gets a fist to the side of the head or, if the angle is better, the throat.

On behalf of Manitobans, I .... nah. That’s fair.

I am a Canadian lawyer who is opposed to the death penalty - - - and I endorse this statement.

It would certainly work that way, regardless of the intent: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/us-bord…

This comment section is the most identifiably American thing I’ve ever seen on Jezebel, I think. I’m Canadian, and I’ve traveled in the USA but never really lived there - I’ve lived lots of other places - and the fixation on the honorific seems deeply American to me.

I have an unusual name that can be shortened to a common nickname (“Mel”), that I don’t particularly like. So I am super sensitive about this kind of thing and I always ask people what they prefer to be called.

YES. My brother’s partner gets her kids to call me Auntie, so I trained my kids to call her Auntie, because I figure that’s what works best for her. Call people what they want to be called.

See, I quite like children - friends of my kids - calling me by my first name. But it pisses me off when customer service representatives don’t call me Ms. LastName. I don’t know you. This is a business transaction.

With you, 100%. Where I’m living, a lot of the kids call me Miss [First Name], and I grew up in an environment where kids called adults (other than teachers and their own parents) by the their first names. I’d almost rather just be called Tia.

Is it wrong that I’m most bothered by her baffling choice to emphasize “STAY” in that first sentence?

I went to law school with a guy we called velcro because whenever he was out with his girlfriend his hand was ALWAYS on her. Lower back was most common, but back of neck and back pocket of jeans were also favourites. I have cat-like touch preferences (touchmetouchmetouchme! - okay, stop now!), and the constant touch…

Adventureland. So, so good.

I once juniored a (male) partner at our firm on a litigation file and opposing council would not respond to me on anything I sent him. He’d respond to the partner and make reference to “your assistant’s correspondence”. Happily, the partner was having none of that and let me take control of the file solely based on…

Hey, I know this is old, but as the mother of a boy who has struggled with executive function disorder, THANK YOU for everything you do. My kid is now 12.5 and has some great teachers and has made huge strides - I’m sure the kids you’ve helped have too.

I take back everything I’ve ever said against him.

My second baby was way faster, but it was still a solid 7 hours (38 hours of labour with the first).

My mother was always very young looking, and she had me when she was 21. So from about age 10 or so I endured a never-ending barrage of “you mean you aren’t sisters??” When I was 14 - so she was 35 - she was chaperoning a dance and I was standing near her. The gorgeous Mexican exchange student came over to us .....…