I think the bluer the state, the easier they make it to vote. Oregon doesn’t just have mail-in voting: They have AUTOMATIC voter registration when you get your driver’s license. I don’t mean Motor Voter where you have the opportunity to register to vote when you get your license. I mean you have to specifically opt…

Because he literally is a 13 year old awkward boy who didn’t make the CUTE BOYS IN MRS MILDREDGE’S CLASS list. And he’s angry about it.

To me, it’s equivalent to workplace harassment (not to mention they’re representing the school and should be acting professionally).

Ah yes, I remember the good old days of locker room talk with my fellow eleven year olds, judging all the boys by their possible sex positions.

If he can’t see the difference between the mental maturity of middle school girls and men in college, then he’s not worth discussing the subject with because he’s already on unstable logistical ground. Ignore and dismiss.

Yes, and I have been using dismiss liberally lately. However, this troll fooled me with its initial comment. I learned my lesson!

Dismiss is your friend.

I’m forever grey over here but will stil respond. I completely agree with you - adult standards ARE different and college students ARE adults.

I think it’s important to keep in mind in a situation like this that nobody is being charged with a crime so it’s not like anyone is held to some sort of legal precedent. Broadly speaking it’s not a night and day difference, I’m sure these days some middle school girls say some mean shit, but that doesn’t really…

That’s kind of why I’m broaching this topic. I’ve actually thought about what you are saying and my conclusion is that it tends to be different. I have no problem with people salivating over celebrities. That’s kind of the point of their hotness. And it’s perfectly OK to think and express that any person is…

I remember doing this in middle school and the content, at its dirtiest, went to “looks good with his shirt off” and not “looks like he loves having black dick in his mouth, amirite?” Also, I was 12, not 18. But any excuse to justify shitty behavior, right?

Why was he so focused on middle school girls to make his idiotic point? Like he can’t think of any other scenarios or what?

I mean, what else can you say but the truth? Adults in college should be held to a higher standard than 12 -14 year olds. And some girls making a list of boys in their grade ranked by cuteness is a tad different from college athletes making a list of other college athletes ranked by hotness, complete with details like…

There is a difference between middle school students and adults, definitely.

Even if we were talking about adult women doing the exact same thing as their male counterparts in this instance, “women do it, too” does not make something okay. (In fact, if it’s part of rape culture, it shouldn’t suprise anyone that women…

Also, middle school lists (in my experience) tend to be shit-ton tamer: Timmy is cute, I’d like to date Jeff, I think Noel is dreamy. That kind of stuff. I seriously doubt there are a lot of Middle School lists that have comments about boys like “he probably is senseless with all the black pussy he is getting.” I…

To me, the main difference is that middle school girls may make these lists- but the objective of the list is not to get laid. Any such lists I knew of in middle school did not just factor in looks because most of them had the goal of getting into a relationship with the boys or getting them as a date to a dance.…

Considering that middle school girls have lists about who they want to kiss, not who they want to fuck, I’d say it’s a definite false equivalency. Thirteen year olds are much tamer and in general much less physically capable of actually harming anyone on such a list, versus male collegiate athletes, who are…

I’ll talk to my subjects and get them back in line. Did you cry?

I got the “middle school” troll, too. Just dismiss/do not engage with that troll because it isn’t here for human conversation.

I mean, I don’t think she did, and I think it’s fairly obvious. But, even giving them that, the rest of his point is even more ridiculous.