Girls locker rooms can get pretty ugly too. Usually limited to verbal assault, theft, vadalism, minor cuts and bruises, and of course shunning. I can’t imagine that would be more enjoyable with a penis.

Anatomy is only important in the doctors office. Any other time social decisions made based on physical attributes it gets irrational fast.

Putting a bunch of hormone ridden, naked teenage boys (or girls) together without supervision is nuts regardless. Sexual assault is about power not genitalia, it happens to cis/straight boys who aren’t big enough to fight back too.

Awww, she’s growing up! Earlier in her campaign she would have insisted that the statistics were totally true and the fact checkers were part of some sort of liberal conspiracy. Now she admitted she mis-spoke like a real adult.

I hope so. It certainly sounds like she didn’t agree with the policy and possibly didn’t enforce it unless the boss was there watching. Talking to the owner wouldn’t have helped change this policy, I wonder whether it would be possible to complain to the fair labor board about having to enforce discriminatory…

Though perhaps if one is predisposed to be unhinged by a situation relatively out of one’s control (non-fake spiders do occur) perhaps arrange to not have a deadly weapon handy?

The question is, did he pull the gun in a phobic reaction to the spiders or did he pull the gun to threaten his co-workers in an embarrassment? Also, of course, did his office have a guns-in-the-workplace policy that he was breaking long before any spiders were involved?

I’m not a vegan (trying to navigate between various migraine-inducing foods is hard enough) but I have to admit that meat-eaters and vegetarians spend as much time preaching about life choices as vegans.

The world is going to be so much better when they get the single shot sterilization working. It would be the biggest improvement in companion animal welfare since the RSPCA was established.

There is a theory that if an animal is overwhelmingly likely to be euthanized for overpopulation reasons (ie more than six months old) the original owner should at least have the decency to be there during the euthanasia to so that the animal does not die surrounded by strangers.

My first thought on seeing the article was joy that he was actually convicted and would be receiving some sort of punishment because it seemed so likely he’d just escape the whole thing. One more of those “she was mature for her age” or “why ruin a promising young man’s future” or “nobody really knows what happened”.

I feel sorry for the Bremerton School District officials. They start out trying to wrangle a grouchy ass of a football coach who has social clout because FOOTBALL. They finally almost have him convinced that God will still hear him if he prays in the bathroom. Then suddenly there are lawyers, and satanists, and…

Part of this underlying idea that anyone doing anything wrong “deserves” to be raped/assaulted/murdered. Anything from crime to mild social blunders — “well it’s not like he/she was an angel”, “should have known better than to...”.

You forgot: after physically assaulting him to the point of hospitalization they also falsely charged him with assault and harassment so he woke up in the hospital disoriented, confused, in pain, and handcuffed to the bed. The charges have NOT been dropped, they are in contemplation of dismissal.

Facial fractures and head trauma can take a long time to heal, and may require a lot of specialized medical care to avoid scarring and nerve damage. Physical therapy. Plus putting someone with head trauma under anesthesia is dangerous.

...dedicated working space for women-centric community service organizations, as well as a restaurant, art gallery, and additional office space for technology and innovation tenants.

I’d bet something polished wood . . . rolling pin? Witches got the reputation for “riding” brooms from x-rated use of broom handles, so that’s a possibility. Anything wood in a wet, salty environment is likely to decay fast so even if the “he’s at home” was a unitasker if might be unlikely to survive.

Dildos predate lonely sailor’s wives in Nantucket, they were popular in ancient Rome. Both the actual article (polished stone or wood) and significant written discussion on the best qualities of said article have survived. Notably they were used by both men and women.

Glad to hear your parent’s sphynx is slimming down. Griffin was 20 pounds when he arrived at the shelter (from a hoarding situation). He was about 15 pounds when we brought him home — his correct weight was around 8 pounds. At ten years old or so, his skin didn’t really recover from the weight loss so he had old lady…

Cat lady: prefers cats as pets and as company.