So sorry you went through that.

I adore your daughter and hope she goes into politics. We need her.

That is what I expect from an FA when you pay the unaccompanied minor fee. They've not only been made aware your kid is alone, they've been made responsible by their employer. The FA on your flight is what I want and expect for my daughter next month.

Always true and relevant. Love her. Watch The Ref to see her in a completely different, yet just as fun, role.

Yeah. As the mother of a 13 year old girl, I read that and it brought tears to my eyes. My heart broke for them.

I honestly wondered about that myself. When they offered to move him from the middle seat to another, and he didn't take the offer, why didn't the flight attendant find a way to move her? Not all men, I know that, but seats available all over and he decides to stay next to a child is big red flag. Warranted or not,…

I missed that, holy crap. But the name fits then right?

Thank you. That was part of our talk, that and listening to her instincts. Thankfully we'll be with her on the flight home.

That would be one awesome short film. Do it from the child's, parent's and security's point of view. Seriously picturing the wheee on a luggage cart and loving it, while feeling the parent's panic.

She was so traumatized she wouldn't even let her mother touch her at first, and she was trying to comfort her. The poor kid.

I freely admit these stories are freaking me out. I’m putting my 13 year old on an American Airlines flight next month to go to camp in D.C. We are paying the unaccompanied minor fee, and they better watch my fricken kid. I've already talked to her about being aware and speaking up if anything makes her uncomfortable.…

Well now I may have to go chrome.

was going to post this. What an awesome, funny, and disturbingly real sketch.

I read about this on Broadly. The townsfolk pulled out the same old boys will be boys, and are pissed at the family of victim for bringing the town into the spotlight. Of course. These stories make me hate people.

Didn't Russian television do the same thing? Report a false gang rape regarding a young teenage girl and refugees in Germany? So of course refugees were getting attacked by roving gangs of men who wanted to, "protect our women!" But the Russian media would not let it go, even when the girl admitted it was bogus.

Except putting Harriet Tubman on the 20 didn’t come from Obama. It was a competition started online, and when the organizers(can't remember their name) got such a huge response they sent a petition to the Obama administration. And seriously, people actually voted this moron into office? It’s mind boggling.

I could only make it partway through. What utter garbage.

This. Thank you. People ask me if I believe in abortion and I say my personal view doesn’t matter. What I believe in is a woman’s right to choose what’s best for her body. And I tell my anti-abortion friends and family if they really want to end abortion then go after the root causes, which you listed. But it just…

Aside from two I can think of off the top of my head, all religion is oppressive to women. The three faiths of Abraham are full of misogyny. But as Reza Aslan says, if you look for love, compassion and kindness in your religion you'll find it, if you look for rage and hatred you'll find it. Religions are full of both,…

I’m a parent, my daughter is thirteen now and has had every shot recommended by her doctors. I researched, and the only I pushed back on was chicken pox. So we made a deal, if she didn't get chicken pox by thirteen she'd get the shot. I have a large family, every kid is up to date on their immunizations and very…