I was one of those too! Like, "I'm the underdog, therefore I'm nice." For example, there was this other Jewish kid who was my arch-nemesis growing up. We were these two obnoxious little know-it-alls who thought we were smarter than everyone else, and this kid never missed an opportunity to call me out and push my…

I don't think youth means ignorance of right or wrong either, but I think it can mean being too immature to fully understand the consequences of your actions or see things from other people's points of view.

If you run into her in person and are having a normal adult conversation, then I think you could. Any other way is probably best avoided.

Probably so. I don't get the justification for it though. I thought people would be extra sweet to the people they liked (like give them candy or kisses on the cheek—-then run away giggling). Nope. He was the worst. I have other stories about him too. About a year ago he sent me a facebook request. I was shocked at…

Your apology would make YOU feel better. For her, it will just remind her that you treated her like shit and put her in the awful situation of having to accept your apology. Frankly, you don't deserve for her to accept it. I'm not saying that to be mean or saying you're awful. I'm saying that as far as her well being…

At least in the context of a Facebook apology, I think your suspicion in your last paragraph is the right response. She may very well not want to remember you or interact with you, even if it's to hear an apology.

Yep. As Anne Lamott puts it, forgiveness is putting down your end of the rope in the tug of war—you're done. But it doesn't mean you want to have lunch with the person.

I'm prefacing my comment with this: I'm only saying this because I was a victim of bullying from elementary school to mid-high school. I think about the guy that bullied me the most, almost everyday. I hate him. With a passion. He was downright mean. He spit on me, threw trash in my hair, made fun of me—hell, he even…

Leave her alone. If you should ever run into her in person, do it then.

I don't think youth means ignorance of right or wrong either, but I think it can mean being too immature to fully understand the consequences of your actions or see things from other people's points of view.

He says he's a different person, but he starts the note with a "you're not that hot I wasn't even asking you out" paragraph before saying all he can do is apologize, but not actually apologizing. This is after he asked out a woman he apparently remembered tormenting but decided to act like nothing had ever happened.

I think there's a middle ground between standing someone up and outright forgiveness. A guy who bullied me in high school has asked me out several times. He's apologized for what he did - he was hampered by not remembering it much at all and not having thought of what he did remember as bullying, but I think he was…

While I won't deliberately hate someone who was gleefully mean to me in grade school, middle school or high school, I will never pretend that youth means ignorance of right or wrong. I didn't like everyone I went to school with, but I also knew that it was wrong to intentionally inflict pain on others for my own…

It wouldn't be the first time

Requisite

And he was sweaty. He put his sweaty armpit on the future whatever-the-non-queen-queen-title-is of England.

The real goal is for women to become chattel. But it would be bad PR to say this out loud so they grasp at these straws.

Women dying from unsafe illegal abortions is a feature in the right wing's vision of the future. It's not a bug. To them, uppity women who actually think they should be able to have bodily autonomy and actually believe they are real human beings are whores who deserve to die.

They just passed a bill to stop scientists from advising the EPA. Educating them will not help. Only voting against them helps and we failed in November. See you all in 2016?