Presumably those relationships were consensual. If the women had repeatedly continued pursuing the men after the men had clearly told them to stop then it would absolutely be sexual harassment.

Is any romantic workplace relationship wrong and if not, who is supposed to take the first step and how?

Most of these stories involve some kind of power imbalance. We’re not talking about a couple 23-year old grad students starting to date, it’s things like a 50-year old male employee harrassing a woman in her 20s or a PI going after a grad student. Even if there’s not an explicit threat to her career, there is an…

“We” don’t laud Polanski and Allen. Not us, not here.

There is absolutely no reason a single person should be singled out like this. It’s disgusting.

Yes, I’m a Registered Nurse and we use the terms male or female, as well as many other terms the police use. If we ever need to go to court, our paper work has to be as clear, specific, and objective as possible.

That reporting aspect of it makes a ton of sense. Now that you mention it, I’ve definitely heard EMTs, nurses, PAs and doctors that work in ERs do the same, and I’m sure their report writing process and motivations are pretty similar too.

a lot of the terminology is standardized to prevent miscommunication.

So if you don’t want to get raped, don’t leave your house because there are rapists everywhere. But also, don’t be afraid of getting raped when you go out because that’s insulting to men

The 90s kid nostalgia train is running everyone over and I could not dive out of the way fast enough. And I was a 90s kid.

This is gonna sound insensitive but I honestly have NO desire or wish for all these reboots. Gilmore Girls, Full House, X files...the talk of Friends. There is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much good TV out there to waste time on what Emma is doing in college. Who the fuck cares?

Nailed it.

Why is it that the interior of every private plane, no matter how expensive, ends up looking like a 1985 Starcraft van conversion?

I was molested as a child for years, and raped as an adult. With one exception, I was called a liar, dismissed, accused of enjoying the abuse, or had what I told them used to hurt me.

I had a sexual assault incident when I was a teenager. I was on vacation with my family in Florida. I walked on a beach at night eating a candy bar. I was 15 looking for a party I was invited to earlier that day while sitting on the beach. No one was on the beach except a man was sitting at the edge of the water. He…

I’ve watched most of it now, and I’m not sure about Steven Avery...but holy fuck Brendan Dassey...what the fuck even was all that shit?

So which is the fishy thing? That he made a clock, that the story got picked up by the national media after the Dallas Morning News published it, that they decided to move to Qatar after having a particularly bad experience in the state of Texas, or that the 16yo kid doesn’t take media interviews without his parents?

...that he explained immediately as a clock. And yet that still somehow warranted an interrogation by the police without his parents being contacted and a three day suspension.

The responsibility is that spouting pure vitriolic lies with absolutely graphic nonsense on a subject that has already claimed Doctor’s lives during the middle of a white-hot debate about planned parenthood is not the best idea given the number of mentally ill with guns- who are a fairly large overlap in the venn…

Ah, the 50 million Elvis fans can’t be wrong argument...