Thank you for latching on to four words I wrote specifically about the Victoria’s Secret brand, as someone who has written about the fashion industry and its problems often for this website, to pen this manifesto. The whole industry sucks??? Who knew?!

So. A country where a mostly unregulated flow of high-power guns finds it way into the hands of white racists led on by a White Supremacist circle jerk of media and Executive power tries to shift blame away from their own causative words and actions.

Uh yeah, this was pretty standard when I went to high school. I may be aging myself... It was just slightly past the peak of 90s HIV paranoia, and before the abstinence-only stupidity wave hit, so preaching “safe sex (but abstinence is still best)” was de rigueur. Part of which, unfortunately, involved scaring the…

That is fascinating and truly haunting.

“There is so much stigma around herpes....”

Gather closely young ones and listen to your big sis about the herp.

Every time this discussion happens, the superb WaPo article is mentioned, and like clockwork there is a subset of commenters who think their brains are just simply wired better that the rest of us.

But how/why? There is absolutely zero suggestion that there was any foul play here, and the father is already suffering immensely. He likely doesn’t even know how to or want to live anymore, I certainly know I wouldn’t if I had mistakenly done something like that.

Why? It’s not as if punishment will deter other parents from making the same mistake. If anything, punishing these parents (the good parents for whom this is truly just a terrible mistake, not parents who, like, got drunk and forgot the kid) will reinforce the idea that only bad parents have this happen to them, and…

If a parent legitimately forgets his or her baby in a car, the mental anguish alone — for the rest of their lives — is way more than society can do to “hold them to account” 

That being said, they still need to be held to account, to some extent

Having your child die a gruesome death from a horrible mistake seems like punishment enough.

No they don’t.

It can happen. I have nothing but sympathy for parents who make this mistake; that’s a lifetime of regret right there.

This would never happen to me.

Completely agree with you. While I never forgot my kid in the car, I had nightmares constantly that I would. Also, my at-the-time BFF and I went to lunch one day from her home, completely forgetting that her one-year-old son was snoozing in his crib. We realized right when we were being seated what we had done and…

I remember one morning with my youngest I was so damn tired. Just exhausted. He was about 6 months old. Maybe a little older? I was on autopilot and I was just driving to work. I was about a block away from the office and he made a cooing noise - a gurgle or something - after having been super quiet the whole way to…

This, I believe, is every parent’s secret nightmare.

I think that WaPo article should be required reading for everyone.

“We can’t give everyone free college! Because then rich kids would get free college!—Pete Buttigieg, somewhere, probably.