Because I’m not a high schooler.

The most offensive thing I read in your description was “trigger warning.” Seriously that has got to stop. It has become such douchey over touchy-feely thing to say.

Wait, how does this sexualize children? Did I miss something?

Well, in the example I meant both people came to the conclusion they liked each other. Not one and not the other - hence they both consent. And I think that is a much larger step away from “but I thought she wanted it” as a lame after-the-fact excuse from someone being heinous.

Uh, I did. I know it’s your word against mine, but yeah, I did. I was just trying to have an honest and open discussion about if there is consideration for degrees of monstrosity in these sorts of things, but if you all want to just fly off the handle and take it to extremes and not be open to it, just like the…

ummmmm.... no. Not the “EXACT” position at all. Wow. And apologies for not taking the time to list every single type of rape such as drugged or unconscious victims that I find similarly deplorable and punishable as physical assaults. And, FYI - I served on a jury where we proudly sentenced a rapist whose victim did…

Yes, but it is no where near the same class as things like physically forcing yourself on someone or threatening their well being. “What? You told her you went to Harvard and had a job on Wall Street when you are really a bike messenger?? Alright, off to the bin with the physically assaulting rapists for you. Have…

It would be more like the VCRs don’t have a rewind button, and they make you buy a brand new, duplicate tape of Star Wars every time you watch it. But then the guy in the back of the station wagon comes along and says “Hey, for $5 I’ll take the tape you purchased and own and I’ll rewind it for you so you can use it…

It is a fine line. We need to get enough encouragement programs at a young age to show them they are “allowed” to develop those skills and get in those fields so they then build the CVs to be qualified for non-quota jobs.

I can see that interpretation. Not saying it is inaccurate, but here’s mine: His approval is fairly stable around the 40-45% window. Here’s why I think that:

To the contrary - my observations thus far from the legislators being interviewed and issuing statements is democrats wholly against, republicans split. Further evidence this Gallup poll is inaccurate.

HOLY S***! How can nearly 40% of the populous approve of the job he is doing!

Yeah, and usually when you “don’t know enough” aren’t you usually extra careful due to that? Like when I do electrical work, I don’t look at a line and say, “well, I don’t know enough to tell if that line is hot or not, so I’m ok to touch it.” Or, “It’s a blind curve so I don’t know enough about oncoming traffic, so…

I work as a design engineer and see this all the freakin’ time. I designed a highly complex liquid dispensing system with 300+ parts to be used by uneducated, untrained consumers. No one batted an eye or mentioned the high precision regulator at the center of the beast that regulated 1000 psi down to 12. But we…

Maybe in the course of the last 3 years she changed her opinion? Aren’t people allowed to think and consider and change their outlook on things? Just like I am sure you would like pro-life people to do? Also considering her current age, that 3 years nearly doubles her time spent as an adult...

Hmmm.... I think I am with Shapiro on this one and I don’t know what he meant. It is pretty unclear, even for him. I would think people should not blow up on this yet. Wait for him to dig a deeper, and more explicit hole before he can backpedal on a weird and non-definitive statement.

You can’t say something like that without providing a source. Otherwise it become a rumor mill that Trump and Co. will use to “prove” the dishonest media just like they did with the removal of the bust of MLK.

Then contact her and be friends again. This isn’t worth trashing a 40 year friendship over. It’s not like either one of you can or did anything that actually mattered one way or the other in this whole mess. Seriously - if you didn’t know what way she cast her ballot, what would be different? Call her up and ask…