Right? I mean the KIDS are the ones experiencing rape, talking about it, writing about it. Whom are the ADULTS protecting by silencing these students?

Brush away the smoke and let the fire burn, district officials. This article is about crimes committed by your students and against your students. Shutting down the paper won't make these crimes go away, but it will make your cowardly inaction and explicit disregard for the bodily autonomy of your female students…

ABSOLUTELY.

That's brilliant! Where?

Waking up that early can actually be life or death. My high school babies lived in the most dangerous (read: DEADLY) parts of New Orleans, which was the murder capital of the US for many years. Most of their streets are still undrivable after Katrina, so they're wandering around in the pitch black (street lighting is…

It's a nightmare. My high school babies lived in the most dangerous (read: DEADLY) parts of New Orleans, which was the murder capital of the US for many years. Most of their streets are still undrivable after Katrina, so they're wandering around in the pitch black (street lighting is really limited in New Orleans but…

WHAT!!!!!!! WHAT WHAT WHAT MOVE OUT! THAT IS DISGUSTING! GAHHH

Hmm, I guess it just comes down to what you consider risky. I have unprotected sex on period with my monogamous male partner all the time and infecting him with HIV has never crossed my mind. Maybe I missed something in the article - I understood it that neither woman thought she had HIV, in which case I don't think…

Ah, I missed a word in your previous comment! My bad! There was a line break between labor and slavery and I missed slavery, so I thought you were saying forced labor isn't slavery because people aren't technically owned. #readingcompfail #yesiamanenglishteacher

WHAT!? What people said that to you?? That's insane. I mean, even if you're not living in fear of contracting HIV from menstrual blood, who the hell wants to sit in someone else's blood/bodily fluids to pee??

What is a bad choice about it? I don't see any risky behavior really - they were in a monogamous relationship and had sex on their periods and had rough sex (super rough, but I don't think of rough sex as especially risk),

I'm confused on your point. Are you saying, since this man didn't have legally recognized ownership over this woman as property, the situation isn't slavery? Come on! You know full well that the usage of "slavery" in the US refers to pre-Civil War chattel slavery or systems that mimic it. We use that term (outside of…

EXACTLY. My poor babies (well, 10th graders) didn't wake up until at least 2nd period. Neither did I. In fact, our district had 40 minute homeroom (YES) to let kids wake up and get to school on time so they didn't have to wait in the pitch black of New Orleans at 5AM. It's a win win win.

Actually, it's largely based on the fact that kids would have to come home during the day to work at home/on the farm. It did not good for the family business if a kid got home too late to work.

The Questlove BPSHHHH is perfect.

Honestly, I don't even think it's like, "Ooo white girls have that it's cute!" it's more "Ooo white girls took something formally gross because Black girls had it and now it's cute!" Like, to me there's something explicit it in being a formally Black girl thing that's now a white girl thing. It wouldn't be so cute if…

But we don't have "labor slaves" or "manufacturing slaves". Again, maybe it's the US, but we don't typically use "chattel slavery"; we just say "slavery". It seems strange to qualify only a type of slavery that predominantly happens to women and children. What I mean is there are all kind of slaves and in every…

But we don't have "labor slaves" or "manufacturing slaves". It seems strange to qualify only a type of slavery that predominantly happens to women and children. What I mean is there are all kind of slaves and in every situation, the owner exploits the physical body of his/her "property". I just think adding "sex"…

I guess I don't really see that as a problem, I mean you'd just keep reading and understand what the details were. But that's what I mean - there are all kind of slaves and in every situation, the owner exploits the physical body of his/her "property". I just think it qualifies the slave aspect, like how "date rape"…

I want us to start just calling this SLAVERY. Just slavery. Adding "sex" there is inaccurate (because this is rape, not sex) and I think it detracts from the real crime of keeping another person as your property. She's not a sex slave, she's a slave. Maybe it's just in the puritanical US where I live, but I think…