in response to your Q about "as someone who took part of teasing... what would stop it?"
I think we all take part in teasing and maybe part of the issue, at least it seems to me, is outdated education. Anti-bullying PSAs don't really reflect what most kids experience real life. (then again I'm 25, maybe things changed…

Honestly as a parent of a teen girl, who's been the victim of mild teasing and bullying for the past 2 years, I have come to the conclusion that there's no amount of "education" or "awareness" that's going to stop bullying. It's not that these little shits don't KNOW any better - they know, believe me. It's that…

The problem is social media. I was picked on constantly in middle school but my home was a refuge from the teasing - now kids don't have a safe place and it infiltrates every corner of their lives. It's terrifying.

On the other end of the stick, as a kid who was bullied, I don't know if I would have contemplated suicide had this happened to me, but I would have outright refused to go to school. I would have dropped out there and then. One kid in school was caught masturbating in class, I think he changed schools because after a…

I agree with you, people are uncomfortable with sexuality and it's ridiculous...that doesn't mean there isn't something wrong with a kid masturbating in a bathroom stall at school. Lots of behavior that is innocuous in one setting can be unacceptable in another...

So as a person who admittedly took part in this kind of teasing, do you have any thoughts on what would stop this? I get that kids will tease each other (I was teased a lot in school). But SHIT. This stuff goes beyond anything I experienced getting picked on. I see studies that show young kids are more and more…

Every time I see these stories, I can't help but think, "Well, that person will never have a totally clean Google search." This girl is cool, I love that she loves her body, but damn, now that media outlets have picked up her story, every one of her future employers is going to see her in her underwear.

I apologize if this is a long comment.

Nope!

Thank you! That means a lot, even though some time has passed. I think more emphasis has to be put on how the legal system works and what recourse a student has when he/she is the victim of any crime during orientation. Sadly, too many 18-year olds simply don't know and haven't been taught how to navigate the law.

Indeed, but doesn't that mean we should be making noise about fixing the real judicial system instead? Having this odd, parallel, judicial-ish system run by educational administrators, which deals solely with felonies that happen to (disproportionately rich and white) college students just seems like it is inherently…

I wrote something about this a couple of months ago! I think an important thing to keep in mind is that colleges NEED to be able to adjudicate sexual assault because the evidentiary standard is so high for criminal prosecutions ("beyond a reasonable doubt"), which can be very hard to prove in sexual assault cases,…

I understand what you're saying and I don't completely disagree - when I was raped I went to the local hospital and worked with the police force. Unfortunately (or on rare occasions, fortunately) students in this situation find that talking to someone they know and ostensibly trust at their school is far less daunting…

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I could not finish the second season. It was just too uncomfortable to watch. I can't really say that means I thought it was bad. I just didn't want to watch more rape and torture.

Thank you, fellow season 1 fan. Feel like we are few and far between.

Same. I love their horror thing, but they usually drop the ball about 1/2 way, maybe 2/3 way in as of the last 2 seasons. Season 1 was great, though!

I knew there was a #textsfromhillary joke in there!

Tatia Pilieva states, "I asked strangers to undress each other and get in bed. Nothing else. No rules. Third base was not off limits."