I think you’re focusing on the wrong thing here. The point is the author isn’t sure if they would categorize what happened to them as a rape, but she still felt assaulted and exploited and a lifetime of shitty opinions like Mitchell’s have made her inclined to blame herself for it instead of the asshole who assaulted,…

I think Gisele will be putting Tom on a time out. He just won’t stop creating bad press for himself. Girl does not like bad press sullying her brand.

HER name. BYE.

Amen! Someone who’s so delusionally out of touch that she doesn’t understand that Trans people who aren’t multi-millionaires might need government assistance because they can’t fucking get a job because they’re Trans, is no hero. She’s repulsive for the same reason Mike Huckabee and Scott Walker and the rest of the…

Seriously, how did religion become a “get out of jail free” card for illegal and unethical behavior? We don’t accept “my religion tells me to kill non-believers” as an excuse for murder. We don’t make laws saying it’s okay to rob or rape or torture someone if your sincerely held religious belief is that they deserve…

Good for her. Won’t stop the mouth-breathers who insist “born as a man, die as a man” (which is itself a dubious assertion considering the trans experience), but it will at least grant more legal recognition to her transition.

He lives in Texas. Teenagers don’t have sex there; they practice abstinence only.

My god, the bomb, it’s counting up!

I have a son applying to colleges right now so my mindset went there as well. As sick and disgusting as this situation is, I could not help but think about the national exposure he is getting and all the universities who now know who he is. I hope wonderful opportunities come his way.

I seriously want to know their reasoning for not calling in the bomb squad if they were so concerned that his clock was a bomb and not, you know, an actual clock.

That’s my question! Evacuate the school, bomb-sniffing dogs, etc. If they were really that terrified that this was a bomb, things would have gone down a lot differently.

And like, if it was a bomb ... no one noticed it until the alarm went off in his backpack. Movies tell me that’s when bombs go boom.

Please stop using your youth and talent to remind me how I wasted mine. I find your elastic skin and enthusiasm terrifying.

I know it’s beside the point but I do kind of like that these people’s understanding of what bombs look like seems to begin and end with Roadrunner cartoons.

like, i’m so glad this is happening but....i would rather he just got an a on his good work and not arrested.

I find the unrelenting passage of time to be alarming as well so I’m going to have to side with the police on this one.

This makes ZERO sense. If they really thought it was a bomb, why didn’t they evacuate the school? That’s the only reaction appropriate for a real bomb threat. It sounds like they just wanted to teach the brown kid a lesson. I’m so glad so many people are reaching out to support him, because his school sure as hell…

See, I knew more good stuff would come from this. Awesome!! Fuck those teachers! Keeping building stuff dude!