Since this is a relatively new phenomenon, there hasn't be a lot of work done on the long term effects, but there are plenty of articles out there about the potential harms of the practice. Here are a few if you're interested in taking a look.

Can we do this to politicians?

Very smart. A punishment to fit the crime, and an actual life lesson mixed in. Well done.

I dig the reading thing. If I ever have kids, I might steal that one :P

It concerns me that the only apparent options are physical abuse or public humiliation. When I was a kid we lost privileges and maybe got grounded

Can people PLEASE stop publicly shaming their kids? I know it's cute when you put the "I eat my own feces" sign on a dog, but kids have actual social consequences. It's not okay to BE the bully in your kid's life.

It's amazing how deeply ingrained the biases are. I'm sure that most of the time hiring parties don't even realize they're doing it, but sadly, the proof is in the numbers of white/male applicants who are hired versus the numbers that apply.

I have trouble finding any logic in the way rapes are handled within and outside of the legal system. It's all a big fuckery.

The phrase "Backlogged Rape Kits" shouldn't exist.

Not at all surprising, unfortunately. I know of one man named Kimberly who works in finance who couldn't get an interview to save his life. He finally put out a resume with just "K." and got the interview and the job.

I'm just thinking that since women are statistically more often in charge of managing the budgets for the family, they may be more likely to set and stick to a budget for a big ticket item, like a car for example. Men, however, may be more easily up-sold, based on the idea that you get what you pay for, and they're…

It would be wonderful to have that kind of flexibility. I can do that for my side gig as a photographer, but for my main vocation I'm not in a position to be picky, unfortunately. The joys of being a recent grad.

While I do agree that it's your responsibility to ask if information isn't offered, choosing not to offer that information, and then going ahead with a sexual relationship knowing that you're putting another person at risk, is just wrong. It just is.

I would star this a million times if I could.

It's absolutely the responsibility of both people. But in the instance where a person doesn't ask, the information should be offered. Someone with HIV or another STD is willfully putting someone at risk without their informed consent if they don't divulge that information. That's criminal.

Wow. This story is terrifying, honestly. That you had to jump through so many hoops just to get a freaking pap smear is criminal.

I completely disagree. In the interest of informed consent, people should be obligated to tell sexual partners if they have an STI. I would feel extremely betrayed if I trusted someone enough to have sex with them, only to find out they willfully kept that information from me.

I'm always afraid of stepping outside of bounds. I wonder if (most) men are unencumbered by these concerns. I also wonder if this is something I'm programmed to feel by society, or if I'm just naturally an introverted person.

I have the same strategy, which thankfully worked for me (albeit after a few patronizing stops along the way). I ended up buying my car from a young male agent who actually went out of his way to make a car fit my needs. He even did some fancy editing on my existing car's specs so I would get more money from the buy…

I followed this back to a ThinkProgress article on the same study, which then sent me through the interwebs to this article from the Globe and Mail. It's worth a read.