Cult of personality maybe? That’s what it feels like.

That makes more sense I think... using “tenure” seems to be confusing a lot of people (including myself, it seems.)

My mom was a teacher for a long time in an affluent school district. Once one of these kids who’s never heard the word “no” accused her of hitting him because she wouldn’t tolerate his bullshit. The union stood behind her until supported her she was proven innocent. Without the teacher’s union that little rich brat…

Oh I’m not disputing that... It’s more that the person I responded to was using words like “faculty” and “professor” which made me think they were talking about a uni environment and not a school one.

I get why there are discomforts about tenure when it comes to primary/secondary school teachers, but I think that university professors need tenure. The University of Wisconsin has messed with tenure, and some of their best faculty have already started to go elsewhere. Although good teachers at the university level…

If anyone’s interested in seeing more of his work. What a loss this is...

And then they’ll feel personally insulted when you can’t afford to go.

And it comes from everywhere! I have religious family who think that I’m basically an old hag (I’ll reach the old age of 23 without a man IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT) but would like to get married by the time I’m say, 30, and my more liberal family members and friends (some of whom are, like you said, married themselves)…

Oh dear I fear that stage. I’m still at the point where ill-advised young right-after-college engagements and weddings are happening (and my teenaged very religious cousins are getting married too) and it’s driving me insane. Of course it doesn’t help that my parents were engaged when they were my age and are freaking…

There is absolutely no link between vaccines and autism but you know what HAS been linked to autism? The age of the father. Why don’t you explore that, De Niro?

And safe abortions for all vs. safe abortions only for the wealthy. Do they really think that Irish girls and women who can afford to travel to England or somewhere else in Europe for a few days and have an abortion there don’t?

Ohhh ive actually never had tiramisu but I've heard it's wonderful! How is it?

Been on my diet for a week and a half and I’ve lost almost 2 pounds! And it’s the weekend, so I can finally drink, thank God. I think I love this bottle of Pinot Grigio more than anything else in the world! What are you all drinking/eating?

Meh I thought that as well, until he doubled down on the comments and said stuff about “that New York term chutzpah” and really really over-exagerrated the ch sound.

I’m only in my 20s but I can still tell I’m getting old... When I read this article I just wanted to smack these brats and put them in timeout with no supper. Long story short, teenagers are the worst.

I don’t know if we can ever make sex work 100% safe but I’ve seen 2 laws that I think would somewhat help. One is like what France just passed: criminalize paying for, but not selling, sex. Another one is (and I forget which country has this) buying sex from a trafficking victim, even if the john didn’t know she was…

I think a lot of it may be due to the fairly unique immigrations situations we see in some of the wealthier Europeans countries. Usually (at least from what I’ve read) the police, when they know that trafficking is happening somewhere, tend to initially use other laws to target traffickers (illegal prostitution,…

Even in countries where prostitution is legal and regulated sex trafficking is a huge concern. In the Netherlands in Germany it’s estimated that well over half of sex workers (some estimates up to 85%) are foreign women from less-affluent countries. This article is a few years old, but it has a good overview of some…

Not necessarily. Countries in Europe that have legal prostitution (someone above brought up the example of the Netherlands) have massive problems with trafficking, as the traffickers can pretty much force their slaves to work in plain sight in legal, registered brothels. Legalized prostitution is safer for women who…

Yeah but those protections tend not to work very well, and those laws are being reexamined.I think that a lot more countries will start doing the whole “criminalize paying for sex but keep selling sex legal” thing.