This pleases me greatly.

Pretty sure he misheard them, and they just said "trains". Because only then does anything make sense.

Oh, I like this idea! She could do montages of their previous lives, with sad, ominous music, using surveillance videos and stuff taken off social media.

In our early twenties, a male friend used to invite girls back his place to watch TPB, and it almost always got him laid. It wasn't super premeditated or anything. It was more like his fallback. But it ALWAYS worked.

I think teenagers should be allowed to wear whatever they want. Only they should be confronted with the photographic evidence at some clearly defined point in the not-so-distant future so they can cringe like the rest of us.

It is vigilantism. And the problem is the same problem with all vigilantes, that they can go too far, that no-one is checking them, that this does nothing to rehabilitate the wrongdoers or get to the root of the problem. And like a lot of vigilantism, it can also seem awesome, because there are no authorities…

It's become like the air that they breathe. It's a big part of how they socialize, and if you force your kid not to participate, you are, in effect, ostracizing them. So I am not sure what the solution is, other than openness and dialogue.

Oh fun! And then, after a long day of wagging their fingers at the silly men they work with, they can go home and shake their heads lovingly over that pot of chili Dad spattered all over the stove top. Thank goodness for paper towels and cleaning products! Because men are like children, and women are their mothers.

Well, that's disturbing.

My four-year-old could totally draw that.

Yeah, I can see that. This is not a zero-sum game, and it is important to acknowledge female-to-male violence. Also violence between same sex couples. I know that sometimes feminists can be dismissive of female-to-male abuse, and I do not agree with it. I can tell that sometimes it comes as a reaction, a suspicion…

Sometimes when I get home from a long day at work and there is leftover oatmeal caked in the pot, I peel it out and eat it. I justify my grossness by pretending I am like Alan Breck in Kidnapped. You know, the famous weight-loss guru.

I suppose the question is whether you think there is anything significant about the way domestic abuse tends to skew more violent for women than men. If you think it is simply a matter of men being by and large more physically strong, then I suppose you could say it is just the arbitrary nature of evolution, and…

Actually, at least in Canada, about 22% of all spousal violence is of a serious nature (sexual assault, beaten, choked, or threatened with a gun or knife). While you are right that the number of men and women who report being the victims of general spousal abuse is about even (with slightly more women in all…

I agree. I think she looks like a comic book super hero who decided to dress couture. In other words, awesome.

You are being ridiculous. The devil is much to busy and important to concern himself with trivial matters like this.

I agree with you, but I think it's important not to assume this works for everyone. Unfortunately, some of the people who have the least money to spend on clothing also have no time to shop for second hand bargains. I live on the poverty line, and I am a big proponent of thrift shopping because it is so economical…

Luckily, teenage girls do not base their actual relationships on shit they read. The attitudes of their family members, maybe, and their peers, but not so much the fictional stuff, in my experience. I mean, when I was 15 I loved the vampire Lestat and Mr. Rochester. Not to mention the movie characters - I lusted…

I have never been assaulted, but, like most women I know, I have experienced serious, unambiguous harassment. Despite this, I never once lost my profound interest in and affection for other human beings, be they male or female. It practically never crosses my mind that a man might try to rape me. The notion is…