but adultosaur., that would make sense. that would be safer, that would be SMARTER! how dare you suggest that.

So you didn't use your words like an adult?

Which is why I'm taking advantage of the opportunity they can currently give me by being in college and focusing on doing the most I can here without accruing debt. How else do you propose I best get a job that WILL pay the bills? By saying "no thanks, guys. Someday you won't be helping, so I'm going to face these…

" You can say "it's the culture" all you like and whine about ethnocentrism, but boundaries are important."

Sorry that went over your head. I meant to say how shallow you were for both claiming this wasn't 'legitimate' assault by white knighting for 'real abuse' while insulting a teenager.

I like how you suggested this wasn't "legitimate" abuse! Good job sir!
Because it's the children that are 'vain and shallow' and certainly not adults, ever.

Perhaps because you 'stood in silent rage' instead of being an adult and calmly telling them not to play with other peoples packets.

Are you fucking kidding me? This girl was abused by her teacher and THIS is what you took from this story? Gawd.

So why was just giving her a 0 for the day not acceptable? Some people should not be teachers.

You know, as a sister to a 14-year-old, and as someone who was 14 once, I really don't think the girl's behavior should even be a factor in this story. So what? She was dragged and touched by AN ADULT and forced to do something she didn't want to do. Whose behavior is worse in this situation? Certainly not the…

Yes, that's their age. That's how they are. Were you not once a teenager too?

He denied performing an operation her parents took her to him to perform. Maggot.

Yeaaaaaah. I don't get it. Yes, forcing an unnecessary surgical procedure on an infant is unethical. I won't be doing it do my sons. But if we were, say, cutting the entire head off of boys' penises then sewing them shut save for a tiny hole the could piss out of slowly and painfully, which was cut open when their…

Because, unlike circumcision, Female Genital Mutilation serves no hygienic purpose, is often performed in unsanitary and unsafe conditions, removes more than just skin, and exists solely to subjugate and control women. The primary purpose of FGM is two-fold: remove the clitoris to remove pleasure from sex and to take…

Because it's more common to remove the clitoris rather than the clitoral hood. The hood is more akin to the male foreskin, and also more fiddly, since it's smaller, and the clitoral area contains far more nerve endings than the penis.

As opposed to the US where it isn't?

I think it's abnormal that a 15 year old was essentially on her own. I'd never do that to my kid. I'm 37, married, have kids, and live in a different country to my parents and I know they will help me out should I need it.

I appear to have found a sore spot for most people.

It's super common in NYC to live at home way longer than in the rest of the country because rents are so high, especially in the outerboroughs where home ownership is more common. Most of my friends moved back home after college and moved out when they'd saved up enough to buy. Just because you were able to do so…

Yes, absolutely. That's been my experience too. The idea that a child needs to be kicked out of the house at age 18 is a very, almost uniquely, American viewpoint.