This may not be a practical solution for you, but that's pretty much the case in Sweden!

It's completely unfathomable to me that, given the situation as described, the school chose to cut off her access to the bathroom, rather than tell him to stop doing that. Someone was in the wrong here, and it wasn't the girl trying to use the bathroom in peace.

OH FUCK OFF. Not even capital letters and swearing come close to expressing the disdain I feel for this oft repeated and offensive notion that women are hated for being skinny. I don't give a flea on a monkey's bum what size or shape any other woman is, and I'm far from convinced that I'm in a minority of one.

Don't you have an entire career and eleventy billion dollars from literally choosing the right word, Stephen?

It's like Emma Thompson and Tilda Swinton signing the Polanski petition all over again. Thompson retracted, but still... it hurts so much more when it's someone whose opinion you thought you could respect!

Is that 'I'm rubber and you're glue' for the over-8s?

Is that 'I'm rubber and you're glue' for the over-8s?

I'd toss rape in there too, while we're at it. Which is a sentence I never thought I'd type.

Fair point - but I have to confess I'm totally stalled on 'bigfoot/dinosaur erotica controversy'. I don't know when I've read a more intriguing phrase. Off to spend some quality time with Google...

Now we're talking! A pleasing rhyme and hammers have started almost no wars!

I would say that until great swathes of humanity have suffered imprisonment, death or lost their freedom of speech* because of people who know the difference between your and you're, we avoid any such comparisons.

Do you know, that was exactly like my home city being bombed to bits. I stand corrected!

Clearly you haven't been invited to the secret feminazi meetings that only MRAs know about. The whole 'we expect to be treated like human beings, no more no less' thing is just a front. France is already negotiating surrender.

Precisely.

Oh don't get me started on "feminazi"!

Is there any chance we could stop using the term 'Nazi' for someone who is a little pernickety about apostrophes and whatnot? It's fucking insulting and strongly suggests the user has no idea what an actual Nazi is.

I read the book and found it the hilarious/depressing tripe everyone else here did... but I have to admit I'm reserving judgment on the movie. For now. Sam Taylor Wood? Jamie Dornan? I suspect it's going to surprise, one way or another.

It should be!

Tack så mycket! I knew Svenska för Invandrare was keeping some stuff back from us ;-)

Catty or not, I think I know who you mean and I had the same thought!