If she was black she'd already have tenure and an endowment.

This. I’m actually kind of glad she got another teaching job. She made a mistake (or several!) but she apologised and should be allowed to move on.

Agreed. She behaved like an absolute knob but I despise never-ending internet era beat-ups, even if the target is worthy of condemnation.

This kinda feels like this crossing the line. What the woman did was wrong, ironic, kinda funny, but she didn’t harm anyone, and I thought her getting fired in the first place was too much.

Taboo is complex. Wanting to have sex with your boyfriend in your mom’s bed doesn’t mean you want to have sex with your mom. You get off on being transgressive. It’s pretty obvious that he’s turned on by the idea of being aroused when he shouldn’t be. That doesn’t amount to sexual abuse, and seeing as how the kid is…

How about this, we used to have young children who worked in coal mines, but we don’t anymore because it’s insane. We also used to treat mental illnesses with lobotomies, but we don’t anymore.

Five year old does not equal infant/baby. So, your “people have sex with their infants in the room all the time!” equivalency holds exactly zero water. Also, almost all historic and cross-cultural studies show humans generally look for privacy when having sex. There was no wonderful unrepressed time or place where…

I don’t think Weiner lives in a one-room house.

You have no idea why CPS was involved, because it’s not protocol for them to announce why they’re investigating someone. A mandated reporter could have called them about something else entirely and it could be coincidence; you don’t know. The fact is that YOU are the only one who jumped to the conclusion that Weiner…

I think the far-reaching professional consequences had been wholly accounted for when he tweeted his dick the first time. Dick pic with child that he jokes about with recipient is fucking plenty to warrant an investigation. But you’re entitled to your opinion.

It’s pretty fucking creepy to take pictures of your crotch while your sleeping child is next to you. It’s also highly inappropriate. And since parents don’t have to share a room with the kids, they avoid engaging in sexual contact when their kids are around. It’s not something a child needs to be exposed to.

The original story broke when Weiner sent an unsolicited dick pic to a college student who Tweeted him about politics, and he was investigated for initiating private Twitter exchanges with a 17-year-old; the latter were found to be unexplicit, though I find what was revealed (“How hip am I talking to a future…

I’m commending you on your measured response. I’ll add that while the child wasn’t the sexual object in the exchange, the photo wasn’t, “woops, in the heat of the moment, I forgot where I was” or “I accidentally snapped & posted a pic not noticing an embarrassing background object” (which is what I thought when first…

Literally no one was even suggesting that Weiner had any sexual desire for his son, and it’s SUPER creepy that you think that’s what people are suggesting? I say this without snark: that’s not a normal conclusion for you to assume people are jumping to.

I hate when people say that “propel used to do XYZ” to make their argument. Yeah, people used to have sex while their kids were around because many houses in olden times were small and only had one room. However, African Americans couldn’t vote until 1964 and we had Jim Crow laws and no one here is suggesting we go…

If you send a sext with your kid in it, you’re making that kid an unwilling participant in your sex life. While I agree that CPS probably has better things to do/bigger fish to fry, I don’t agree that what he did wasn’t wrong to begin with.

Lol, weren’t you on the Jared Fogle thread claiming what he did wasn’t really a huge deal? We get it, you like defending people accused of sexual acts around kids. Don’t act surprised if most people don’t want you within 50 feet of their children, bub.

Eh, yeah I hear you, the child wasn’t the sexual object in the exchange. BUT, in the non-one-room civilization to which we aspire, boundaries between your boner and your 5-year-old are expected. I’d be absolutely horrified if I were Huma and my idiot husband sexted with my kid in the room. It’s no crime in and of…

I don’t think people see it as incestuous; it’s transgressive IN THIS CULTURE to act out sexually in front of your kids, even if your kids aren’t participants.

Gray-brown fall is not the worst season. It’s vastly superior to both Gray winter and Brown spring, as both of those seasons involve discovering what’s been rotting under snowbanks since White winter. Bird spines, human poop, rat arms, etc.