I mean I feel like tons of white people, especially white women, do this on a regular basis sans shirts. Like, bringing up racist things other people have said and done, or talking about how struggling against racist sentiments in the workplace is Not Going Well. It’s confusing, though, because-well, because…

Yeah and I don’t think it’s effective to dismiss all of her detractors as sexist. I’m a WGS major and I’ve got a serious problem with her, and it’s not because I have issues with a woman running. If Michelle Obama ran or any other woman I respected, I’d support her. I respect some of what Clinton has done, but I don’t…

Why is it wrong to want to try to expand the political spectrum to include third-party candidates? I live and vote in a predominantly Blue state. It’s gone blue since I don’t know how long, and there was never any chance it was going to go to Trump. That being the case, I actually didn’t vote—well, that, and the fact…

I mean, I do think it’s true though that Clinton was very polarizing and majorly turned off far-left voters, in a way Obama never did. It’s also true that the media [House of Cards, Scandal] made it fairly clear that most people don’t want to see a president who began her political career as the wife of a politician.…

Oh okay. I was picturing this twelve-year-old saying that he was sad you’d hit him, and I was like, wtf? What’s this kid want?

First, thank you for sharing something so deeply personal.

Heck, if he breaks a window, take it out of his allowance! he should have some literal consequences too.

I definitely appreciate a non-abusive attitude towards dogs. However, I do think that there are circumstances where hitting a dog very lightly is appropriate—for example, one of the dogs I lived with for a while was a completely untrained greyhound who’d recently been adopted from the track. His owner refused to train…

My mother once spanked me behind closed doors, lightly, and told me exactly why she did. It wasn’t traumatizing or damaging, although to be honest, I still have no idea what she was upset about at the time. I suspect she was upset because I made a fuss at some party or other, so her intentions in getting me to shut up…

WORD. I mean, I was taught to smack horses on the rear end if they kick, or lightly in the muzzle if they bite, in order to tell them a) that behavior is not okay and b) make it clear which part of their body I was objecting to. Most of the time, that is clear communication. Animals communicate with their bodies, and…

Wow. Okay, look-in situations like this, I DO think spanking or otherwise using physical strategies of self-defense is acceptable. If your child is physically attacking you, then I absolutely do NOT believe that removing yourself from the situation is acceptable. Frankly, I’m concerned that your son’s reaction of “it…

Or both. My sister’s not real smart—I don’t mean that as an insult, I mean that as a fact—and had major behavioral issues, and some sort of mental or verbal processing disorder that made school really difficult [it was never diagnosed except vaguely, and I’m not entirely convinced the docs administering the tests…

I mean, my sister got spanked once because she threw a hairbrush at my face and hit me about an inch from my eye. So I think in that situation, spanking was pretty reasonable.

WORD. I mean look at all these comments, but kids who don’t happen to have famous dads go through tremendously horrifying abuse every damned day. Yeah, in an ideal society, spanking probably wouldn’t happen. However, this is NOT an ideal society, and why don’t we start making it more ideal by punishing the most…

I mean, yeah, it’s hitting, and it screws kids up. HOWEVER we live in a society where kids are sexually abused in horrific ways, abandoned for days on end, and beaten so badly bones are broken, every single day. So excuse me for being less than concerned because a dad spanked his kid.

I really like that story, about the elephant farm. I’ve seen wild animal parks that left the same impact on me—there’s one in San Diego, actually, and I visited it literally the day after I visited Sea World for the first and only time. They had acres of land made up to look and smell and seem like the African sahara,…

I understand the frustration, here, but these white women are trying to do something positive. They’re clearly going about it in a somewhat mistaken manner, but their intentions are solid. I just feel like getting so upset about stuff like this is really misguided. These white women aren’t really THE problem right…

Yeah-I mean jeez, and I hadn’t even thought of this, but Tilikum killed people. Other whales [and probably him too] start bullying one another. Maybe the reason Keiko had such difficulty finding a pod is because of behaviors learned in captivity—in which case releasing the orcas sans some serious psychological…

I mean the last time I did that, the mother found out and screamed at me and stalked me till I had to move, and then her husband tracked me down and assaulted me. Meanwhile CPS never did a real investigation, and the family moved and that was that—and in that circumstance, basically everyone in the building knew that…

WORD. I mean I work with kids, and there’s this one girl who always hangs all over the teachers and is inappropriate in how she touches people, and clearly has crappy boundaries. and I’m like, CLEARLY something is happening to this kid. But my supervisor’s in her first year on the job and isn’t about to raise a fuss…