According to a number of eyewitnesses he did. Only one person who was there said he didn't, and that was the guy who murdered him.

Even if there wasn't sexualization involved, it's very damaging to a child's self esteem to be in something like modeling or pageants because it teaches them that their worth is tied up in something superficial instead of their skills, knowledge, and talents.

She also tries to enforce rules, which include keeping her daughter's feeds kid-friendly

I was going to liken this to pageantry...then I saw the "topless" photos. It would be different if she was just hanging out in the backyard, and her Mom snapped the photo, but it's really creepy to me that they deliberately posed her that way for a photo shoot.

Sounds like his management were the actual assholes and that he had jack shit to do with your misery, actually.

I think in part because this has gone beyond individual incidences now and become evident of a systemic problem, within which John Crawford III is another victim. Michael Brown/Ferguson has come to represent the problem as a whole.

I agree with you - it is insulting. Especially since the original 911 caller lied about why he called 911 (claimed Crawford was pointing the gun at people, including children).

Why the fuck is nobody talking about John Crawford III? He's not even on the list here of other black people essentially executed by the police. There was no jury indictment for Crawford, even though there was VERY CLEAR security camera EVIDENCE that the responding officers lied and used unnecessary force for a man…

"The looting and arson was unnecessary, but it is not and never will be worse or more sad than police willfully shooting unarmed black people."

But what if she only gave her hair as a reason because she didn't want to say the real reason? What if she does have hydrophobia? What if she just got her period for the first time and she's afraid her tampon won't stay in? If someone says no, you respect it. That doesn't mean she wouldn't have academic consequences,…

Ugh, I remember we had a creepy PE teacher sort of like that back in jr high. We all had to wear black shorts and white shirts for PE class, but if it was cold we could wear any color sweats we wanted. He somehow got into his head that we still had to wear the black shorts under our sweats (this was not actually the…

I was assaulted by three PE teachers over the years. I'm very very petite and was much more so as a child (as an adult, there's lots of tiny people! In a class of less than 130, not so much). I also have a EDS, which was undiagnosed at the time but I had lots of pain and doctors' notes confirming there was some…

This. There's nothing wrong with choosing to take a zero for the day. Sometimes you have after-school stuff during swim weeks.

See, I don't even know that I would say what she did was "wrong." She made a choice. She chose to not participate in PE for her own reason. The natural consequence of not participating would be not receiving any participation points for that day. Even if she had said, "I don't want to do it because I don't feel like…

I love the girl who threads her legs between the girls locking her down so she can't continue to be dragged. That girl is a hero.

Wasn't it the mentality that date rape and marriage rape wasn't really rape during that time? You're walking down a dark alley at night and a stranger assaults you, that's rape. If a man you know takes you out to dinner then forces himself on you in the car on the way home, that's just you repaying him for the meal he…