Agreed. Which is why I am willing to go to your house and eat your dog.

You are so spot on. I am a regular ed teacher who has kids with special needs in her classes (with a para or another teacher). First off, a caring para is so amazing. It is great for a kid with special needs to be with the regular ed population and it often brings out the best in the regular ed kids. It can be a…

This sickens me to my core. I was a special needs 1:1 para with 8th graders for four years. I made a big difference for my students (I kept all the cards they and their parents gave me) — without a really caring para, their transition to their later teen years would be hellacious. That job. completely changed my…

People sometimes just don't understand these power dynamics. I had a huge huge huge boner for my music teacher in high school who was young and 10 years older than me. At the time I thought "HAVE AT IT DUDE." But as a grown as woman I'm glad that never happened. I was so easily influence and swayed that he could have…

Romeo and Juliet laws dumbass

Abercrombie & Fitch was actually a high-end sporting goods store- it wasn't merely a theme.

For reals, you guys. That's why they call a tank top an unmarried-friends-with-benefits-beater.

It's easy to feel like a nervous chump when you hear people talk about how they took the leap of faith and it turned out so great and how everybody should do it. And I'm sure it did turn out great for them and that is great. But the truth is, when people take a leap of faith and it spirals down into a steaming crock,…

I am judging the person who wrote this article. It seems to me that she lacks common sense. What poor logic she has used in her deductive analogy. Forgetting one's child in the car, or leaving them there for hours in deadly conditions intentionally is not the same thing as purposely leaving them strapped in a car seat…

I agree that the comparison between Brooks and the parents who leave children in the car by accident is totally specious. Not the same thing at all, unless Tracey was going to make the connection between the deaths of children by parents who genuinely forgot them and the enactment of the law that Brooks would be/was…

It makes no sense to compare what Brooks did with the people profiled in Weingarten's excellent piece. They are completely different scenarios, and it undercuts your argument to put them in the same league. Regardless, I have no problem whatsoever with what Brooks did. You don't need to "tell everyone it's totally OK…

Some people don't consider "pregnant" to equal "overweight".

Funeral potatoes 4EVAH!!!!

What an ass-hat of an attorney.

Yeah, I think it might be more practical to just use them on all drinks. Then pay for the cup if you take it home with you.

That's all well and good but it isn't realistic for everyone. Not everyone has the time and/or money to take martial arts classes. Disabled people can be victims of sexual violence as well. In fact they are more likely to be victimized than people who aren't disabled. That's why shifting the burden onto people to…

The best way to defend yourself is to just get the fuck out of there. All training or tools for protection should be in the service of getting your ass out of there, not the fantasy of staying and beating up the attacker; the longer you stick around, the more likely you are to get hurt.

I'm sorry, are you trying to say that people don't have the right to not be attacked?