And another one:

I feel that I need to post this repeatedly, just so people can get the point.

I reported my college ID stolen (taken off of a cafeteria tray I had forgotten to grab before dropping it off to be cleaned off). I went out of town that weekend with the Marching Band. I get back on Sunday night and the police arrived at my dorm...not with my ID but rather to question me. Seems like the dirt bag who…

I’ve been on both sides of the peer review process - as a reviewer and an author submitting something to a journal - and I can tell you that although it’s critical to the scientific process, it can oftentimes be an utter joke. One time I got comments back on a manuscript that sounded as if they were literally for a…

My fellow Americans,

Yeah, and as an ND alum, this reads a lot like another instance of campus authorities trying to make it women’s job to keep men in line.

^this. Seconded. Again, as one (other) woman’s opinion.

To preface, I, as many women, have been sexually assaulted in the past. It was traumatic, horrific and shaped my life in a way I would rather not have had happen.*

Because this is not what most adults or teachers would do. Somehow the boy would get a pat on the head (boys will be boys, lol) and the girl gets punished, shamed, and then ostracized for “snitching”.

Your little sister was awesome.

It’s not really gender-neutral, though. Since when do boys clothes include spaghetti straps? Or shorts that are actually, you know, short? Or shirts with cut outs?

Can I tell a somewhat happier-ending story?

So much this. You get negative attention — you subconsciously do what you can to become invisible. I wish more people talked about the hidden side of weight gain - and the fear that can come with losing it.

Does this really classify as dudes checking someone out or straight up pedophelia? I would say the latter. I am male and when I was 13 I would go to a gym that had split men’s days and women’s days. I would go to the indoor pool to swim and invariably there was the same guy there who would lie naked on a deck chair…

Since we all might need a slightly happier tale, here’s a great response teachers can have when alerted to this, via a PE coach I had in sixth grade. I switched schools halfway through the year to escape bullying, and on my first day at the new one I was trying not to make waves. During PE I was just kind of hanging…

I made a very very long story short. The years of this kind of stuff I went through put me in a depression and effected my relationships for the rest of my life. So... yes, probably the worst time in my life. Because I really could do nothing about the way I looked.

The kids in my school commented on my breasts or my butt or whatever, but it was largely age-appropriate. There were one or two really, really gross older men in my parents’ social circle when I was in the seventh grade ... I was overweight by the eighth.

In a conversation about why people do the things they do with a…

This is a huge problem in my field too. I’m feminine, so people assume I’m incompetent! I’ve had substitute musicians who are playing in my band offering to explain to me how to play a part that was WRITTEN FOR ME before they ever heard me play. Their assumption? I was a college student and I needed their (first time…

See, the whole “quit acting like a girl” thing is what you need to avoid. That’s a key point that doesn’t seem to be sinking in for you. If your brain formulates thoughts like that, then yes, you should walk on eggshells and self-edit. If you can manage to string together a few nonsexist thoughts, then by all means,…