OMG! A friend of mine wrote a short story called “Rachel Does a Dish” about washing your first dish in college. His parents never made him or his siblings do chores so none of them had any idea how when they grew up. That makes me irrationally angry.

That’s a relatively new legal interpretation of Title IX, but I stand corrected that schools handled sexual assault cases before the 1980 Yale Title IX lawsuit.

That’s a relatively new legal interpretation of Title IX, but I stand corrected that schools handled sexual assault cases before the 1980 Yale Title IX lawsuit.

Since everyone’s sharing their stories of teen rejection, let me share mine:

When I was a sophomore, there was an incoming freshman who made waves all across the school for gorgeous he was. I was pretty phresh myself in my Farrah Fawcett hairdo but he was way out of my league.

At the homecoming dance I saw him sitting…

bound by this incredibly specific and unique moment in time

I’m pretty sure colleges aren’t doing this because of Title IX. In the first place, they were doing them before Title IX passed. In the second place, the only way to get anyone to adhere to Title IX is to sue them over and over again. It’s famously unenforced, even now. The Title IX/sexual assault lawsuits only…

What is the point of any investigation if you don’t can’t respect the answers they come to?

I so hope you’re right. In fact, I’m just going to go ahead and believe you’re right.

I’m not saying go on Google Maps, pick out a random address in each senator’s state, and use it for their contact form, but...

How generous of him to be willing to have a “very objective open mind.”

People, this is what happens after decades of “equal time” for both sides of a question, no matter how horrific and irrational one of the sides is. Assholes like this believe that they’re being fair by making their own victims plea the case for…

This a terrific and serious comment so I feel guilty being so happy about the phrase “nonexistent teen slang.” It’s the description I’ve been looking for since the early days of the Brady Bunch. You deserve a Pulitzer.

Write or call and tell her to resign.

Oh for crying out loud. There are ways to make jokes about anything, but when you’re making a joke *against* a victim, it’s not funny to anyone but those who are already against the victim. Which sort of stands that maturity argument on its head.

That said, I didn’t realize until a commenter pointed it out that this is…

I didn’t know that was his persona. I thought his comments about rape came out of nowhere. So yeah, people do self-select their entertainment, you’re right.

By the by, I do think you can make rape and cancer jokes. I just don’t think it’s cool to make fun of victims. You can make jokes about rape that don’t side with…

I also can’t get too outraged about the *general* concept of a comedian attempting to humiliate an asshole audience member into silence

Pussy will totally get some parents upset.

I really wouldn’t call it a sheath, dude.

Or more pretentious, maybe.

Except he’s not right.

this is an attempt at a serious, concerning question