It is very confusing to me how controversial people find this. In the cases where clients are more powerful, it puts a hard third-party line preventing sexual harassment. It is just an added bonus that the ban protects both parties. If a rich client with a team of lawyers and one of her team want to have sex, that…

The issue would be that she or he is in charge of their taxes, which is kind of a big deal, and so you want the lawyer to have absolutely no motivations or complications in the case except to do the taxes well. It is unequivocally wrong for rich therapists, clergy, doctors, and professors to have sex with active…

Do you also refuse to celebrate the actions and dress mores of any and all Americans, any and all capitalists, any and all Earthlings in any context and no matter what they have achieved? Because guess what sister most manners of dress and belief systems have been steeped in patriarchy in one point or another and used…

What strikes me about a lot of these cases is how little time and information gathering is devoted to truly getting to know and listening to the child witnesses/victims. If lots of time, trust building, and smarts are used, children can be very clear about their experiences and feelings. But in so many of these case…

Yes, Truscott was falsely convicted of rape and murder but the rape unequivocally occurred. They just got the wrong guy. This is the case with most cases of men falsely accused of rape - a sexual assault did occur, they just didn’t do it. What this situation would require is that multiple women lied about the…

But this article doesn’t share any feelings, or even make any statements. It just creates a feeling of ominousness without actually identifying what is concerning in the content. I would much rather he share negative feelings than whatever this is.

She’s always been a part of the white Christian progressive publishing world - Brian McLaren, Rachel Held Evans, Nadia Bolz-Weber, etc. Inclusive & everything.

I hope that they would be willing to make exactly the same sacrifice Obama is making - dealing with someone they find repugnant in order to preserve basic freedoms and functioning as much as possible. If staffers are given the option I think staying on is the moral option.

There’s nothing wrong with not liking it - but that is the exact same trade-off you and others have made every single election ever voted in in the US. Why all the performative dragging of feet now? Because woman, because privilege, because callous uncaring and stupid. And it’s frustrating.

My husband has been excited for weeks to take our toddler daughter to vote for the first woman President. When we went to vote early last week it was the electronic screen machines, so he brought her in and tried to put her finger on the Hilary button while taking a picture for the historic (illegal) memories. She…

In the case of the Kardashian-Jenners I would also be very worried it had recording or listening equipment in it for tabloid money. But they are so smart about their image and business I’m sure they sold or destroyed or checked into after if the story is true - it’s just a fun story to tell up until that point.

Parts of this aren’t at all my theology, because there are over 2 billion Christians and we believe and do a wide variety of things, like any other group of humans. (This is also why we are inconsistent. Because literally everyone is.) But I think the people who do hold this kind of theology probably reconcile it like…

This branch of Paganism exists in the US as well, alongside perfectly harmless anti-racist versions. It’s because some of (not all of) the roots of people reclaiming the word “Pagan” in the 20th and 21st century (pretty dramatically redefining it, since no religious or ethnic group ever defined them*selves* that way…

I think a) people assume it has to do with Satan or demons (which even if it were true would still be protected religious expression!) or b) if they do magic, that means they will try to do magic on me (which, if you don’t believe in it should not be a problem).

I would imagine that the point is that high school hierarchies no longer operate in exactly the way they did in the 80s, and the social commentary of this version might not be geared towards us but towards current teenagers. The end result may still be a failure but I doubt these choices were made so deliberately out…

But the structure should have to hire additional people, not force these agents to work epic weeks. A salary cap incentivizes them to just push their current employees, where paying overtime incentivizes them to actually consider work being assigned and whether they are staffed and funded to competently fulfill their…

I hear what you’re saying, but I also think it would mean real losses for all involved to build all family boundaries around the lowest common denominator. Since the conversation is about how to thoughtfully parent kids to know their bodies are theirs, I assume that unhealthy or abusive parents aren’t super invested…

The only thing I would add is maybe, “Would you like a hug, or are you not feeling huggy?” Kids get asked so many questions that are rhetorical, I like to give them multiple options so they know I’m actually asking, and can pick the one that is true.

I believe in *always* asking with non-immediate family, but within immediate family I think there’s room for context, age, past experience, etc. to create room for some automatic signs of affection. I don’t want my partner to ask every time he puts an arm around me, I do want him to respect it immediately if I say no…

They also should be covered in sweat and dirt and have bad hair and use words we aren’t familiar with, but don’t because a million concessions have been made for modern audiences. Consent should be one of those things.