PS: If someone reading this happens to be one of his descendants, well, I’m so sorry to disillusion you. Your grandfather or great-grandfather was a pedophile.

Thank you.

Thanks. My son was never alone with a doctor without a parent being present when he was young. And I told him a somewhat expurgated version of this story when he was a little older, to try to emphasize that he didn’t have to be afraid to speak up and say no, and/or ask for a parent, if a doctor ever asked him to do…

I don’t know if it’s still true, but New Haven had a problem with packs of stray dogs back in the mid-1970s when I was in college. I used to hear and see them out of my dorm window in the middle of the night, running down Broadway. It was one of the scarier things I’ve ever seen.

I understand Chocolatescrooge’s feelings, though. Not saying something isn’t always because you think someone wouldn’t be supportive. In reference to my previous comment about not saying anything for 25 years about what happened to me — yes, including SOs — the reason was more the extreme embarrassment at what I saw…

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I graduated from Horace Mann in the 1970s, so none of this surprises me. I’m sure it would have been even worse there had it been a boarding school.

It took me more than 25 years ever to tell anyone about my repeated sexual abuse by a doctor from the time I was 11, let alone to admit to myself that it was abuse and there was no possible good reason for it. Or to stop thinking I was stupid for letting it happen. So I’m pretty sure I know how you feel. In the end,…

Perhaps Idiocracy8 is one of those people who thinks that gay men are basically women?

But if that’s true, and the baby isn’t paying rent, you should be able to evict him/her.

Like, “no black people in my store”? That kind of reason?

Why just pregnant women? Perhaps we should ban all women of childbearing age from drinking, because they’re all “potentially pregnant,” even if they aren’t aware of it?

Almost every case in recent years has held that trans people are protected under the sex discrimination provisions of Title VII, either under the sex stereotyping theory or directly. If you’re interested, here are some links to briefs filed in a case against Saks last year, summarizing the state of the law on these…

The issue doesn’t necessarily depend on what Congress thought in 1964. Congress didn’t have “sex stereotyping” in mind as illegal discrimination in 1964, but it’s been considered illegal since the Price Waterhouse decision years ago, and it’s hardly disputed at this point.

I live in NYC and only rarely notice visibly trans people — in bathrooms or anywhere else. And I’m trans myself. We are a small population, visible or not.

Which is why I think that advocating this kind of thing as a solution is a derail. There’s opposition to something that’s immediately necessary for a vulnerable population? Let’s change the subject and advocate something different, which will be faced with 100x as much opposition, and cost billions of dollars to…

I dislike this argument. Yes, the other parts of the law are terrible. No, the bathroom portions weren’t intended as a distraction — they believe in them just as much as the rest.

I knew what you meant; I wasn’t being serious. (I’ve read those parts of The Power Broker!)

If all people were doing was criticizing the actions of the Israeli government rather than equating Israel to Nazi Germany, or happily singing “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free” — a slogan which almost necessarily would require genocide to implement — nobody would be accusing them of anti-Semitism.

That’s so obviously a lie. Come on. They were all retroactively classified, weren’t they?