It should be illegal for someone to physically inflict pain on another person, when that other person has made it clear that they don’t want that person hurting them. Shouldn’t it be illegal? As I understand it, even drill sergeants can’t hit the recruits.

Some light digging on FB unearthed a former acquaintance of this coach who was accusing him of stealing from and ripping off former gymnastics facilities, families, and students.

One of my undergrad degrees is in Theatre Arts. It’s not crazy challenging, but it’s not the cake walk that people assume that it is. Really, no degree is a complete cake walk. You have to show up and put in a modicum of focused work and show commitment to a goal. Also- let’s take it easy on the idea that people…

A male feminist walks into a bar

Also, this.

I’d just like to note - because this story is important and some commenters seem confused - that it’s beyond appalling to compare white communities losing their accents because of globalization to the lingering effects of systematic cultural genocide that has marginalized and disempowered native communities for…

I drove around with a faulty tail light for almost a year (“fixed” it several times during that year, but it kept going out). During that time, dozens of Black drivers would wave at me from other cars to tell me that my light was out. Initially, I commented to my husband about how friendly Black drivers were about…

Exactly. I don’t care what the employer’s excuse his—as long as he continues to do business with the butcher, he is aiding and abetting a racist, which means he ain’t shit either.

This. “I’ll give you a different route!” So you’re telling me my colleagues are racist too? Because anyone who doesn’t tell this butcher to go straight to hell is just as racist as he is and that makes the “accommodations” bullshit in my eyes.

I can understand not knowing how to act in that situation, especially while getting legal counsel, because you don’t want to accept something from the company that prevents you from retaliating later. Granted, he may have screwed himself by his inaction, but I can understand the hesitation (especially when…

You don’t need to calculate down to the last decimal. You just need to know two things. That AP scores are weighted or have been weighted in the past for valedictorians, and that the other girl didn’t take as many AP courses as your daughter. If its a small town, any given AP class will likely only have one section.…

Prachi, the statistic about divorces is interesting, but i do think divorce is so heavily stigmatized in India especially for women that it is not seen as a viable choice at all. I think patriarchal pressure exists in multiple forms in Indian culture before and after marriage and walking out on an abusive or an…

Way too sophisticated and left-wing for Sunkist Hitler. Don’t forget that Ted Geisel drew this amazing cartoon during the 1940's:

lol

To be fair, the way we interact with children has progressed as society’s understanding of child development has evolved.

But tantrum/meltdown/lava-flow/younameit, this is not how one treats a child, neither then nor now. Echoing ThirdAmendmentMan: that child could have easily injured her head, arm, shoulder—dear lord,…

I wish this article was a little more balanced.

I think for the most part people made their criticisms and responses to her apology and then moved on, but then she got death threats and harassment and the people who criticized her got blamed for it in the aftermath. Which of course got them talking again because now they were having to defend themselves against…

I've seen POC bloggers (many of whom get arbitrarily labeled "social justice bloggers" simply because they talk about the racism they experience on their personal blogs) get all kinds of harassment. People will make it a point to single these bloggers out. create entirely new blogs designed to send them racist…