Go to the mall in Puyallup, Bothell, Lynwood, Federal Way or Redmond any weekend out of the year and you are guaranteed to see at least one family - Mom, Dad, 2.5 kids - all wearing matching 12 Fan jerseys. 

Boy did you miss the point. Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the word “aggressor”. The point is that when a male raised and assimilated into our type of patriarchy wants sex, initiates sex, and gets a woman to assent or at least submit, that’s what they’re programmed to be turned on by. Media, art, literature, reinforces…

His wife, Jennifer, says he typically gets home at 2 a.m. and goes back to work at 6. When she travels with him to road games, she gets a separate room because he’s up most of the night watching tape.

Fuck Pompei for acting like this is a normal, good thing & fuck Gase for being THAT asshole boss who doesn’t leave his employees alone ever. The fact that he’s a mediocre coach just adds the cherry on the shit sundae.

“Her attempts to take a sensual moment into the realm of consensual made me realize it was a pyrrhic conquest at best.”

That was the prosecution’s position and yes, he was convicted. Personally, I think his extramarital affairs are totally irrelevant (and were incredibly prejudicial), and his (now ex)wife defends his innocence to this day. She clearly didn’t think the affairs were relevant to the case. In addition, the fact that he…

Every time this discussion happens, the superb WaPo article is mentioned, and like clockwork there is a subset of commenters who think their brains are just simply wired better that the rest of us.

“I’m so fucking hyper aware of their presence at all times.”

The article isn’t really about being distracted though, it’s about the ways in which our brains tend to shift to autopilot without us realizing. The distraction are part of what makes the shift less noticeable/more likely, but eliminating distractions won’t fully eradicate the problem (also, I’d argue it’s impossible…

I cannot tell you how many times I link to that article in a year. When things like this happen sometimes I just go through the comments and link to it underneath every, “I WOULD NEVER DO THIS” comment. It’s gut wrenching to read, but it should absolutely be required.  There have been times I’ve absolutely zoned out…

How do you hold them accountable, though? What purpose does prison serve here?

I really do suggest you read the WaPo article. People like Harrison don’t prioritize work over their children. They aren’t negligent parents. They literally fall victim to a brain glitch where they think they’ve dropped the kids at daycare. When you drop your kids at daycare, do you think about them every minute like…

YES. The Washington Post piece was an amazing article and well-deserving of the Pulitzer Prize, because I walked into it going “Sucks for those people, I’m sure they’re not all bad, but I’m sure it won’t happen to me” and walked out building my own plan for avoiding leaving a kid in a back seat... and I don’t even…

Your analogy comparing a single mistake due to out of the ordinary circumstances to your set daily routine of insulin shots is by far a way more flawed analogy.  I think you are actively trying to avoid understanding what is being discussed.

That WaPo piece is the most haunting article I’ve ever read (and one I link to liberally when tragedies like this happen).

The whole point is that I actually don’t need to know anything about you to say that, save that you’re a human being with a human brain, wired just as strangely as all the other human brains.

I remember this happened about 7 or 8 years ago, and the women at work were all talking about it while they ate lunch and watched The View. I made some comment to the effect of it being a tragedy and that we should look to the car manufacturers for responsibility because the technology to fix the issue is available…

Right, but the whole point of the article is that they did not leave their children to die in a hot car because they were “busy at work.” I’m surprised that’s all you got out of Gene Weingarten’s work on this subject.

Given my job, it’s not hard to guess where I stand. I think this is a clear-cut case of the world wanting to hold somebody responsible for a tragedy, whether it’s just or not. What punishment could be worse for this man than what has happened? This is not an intentional act. This is a horrible tragedy, and while…

I think that WaPo article should be required reading for everyone.