Agreed in full. It’s my experience that if you want to understand someone’s politics and overall worldview, a good foundation is to figure out how old they are, and then start working through what exactly was going on in the world when they were about 18-25. It’s not perfect, and obviously individuals react to common…

I have worked in politics and government for almost 20 years, and McCaskill’s comments reflect identical sentiments to the Boomers (people who have worked here since the 1970s) in my office.

I am an Italian American. Every holiday is an eating holiday.

Who else believes there have been more deaths than the ones we already know of, but they’ve been covered up?

Even in their original context, they are a reminder that a man who wanted sex was expected to treat a woman’s “no” as a socially acceptable lie and not as a sincere expression of her feelings. The convention of “women always say ‘no’ even when they mean ‘yes’” was always a way to put the responsibility for the…

Accurate! The most positive way to read the song is that she’s taking charge of her own sexuality, but yeah, the guy’s first line should really be “well should I call you a cab? Because the roads are only gonna get worse.”

Even the original context is troubling. She kinda wants to stay but knows she shouldn’t. She knows her family will worry, that her reputation will be sullied, etc., and he still refuses to accept her “no.” Now, “I don’t care that your reputation will be ruined” isn’t as bad as the rapey connotation the song has now,…

Exactly. You could tell a male co-worker, “Hey, that’s a sharp suit” and you could say something similar to a female coworker, “That’s a great dress.”

He nailed it, but he didn’t understand it. He thinks the women have been sensitized to think his compliments are sexual harassment, not that they are.

What are we hiding, Mr. Shatner?

It’s a whole new culture. The whole business has changed. The whole man-woman relationship has changed to a severe degree. It’s all about sensitizing you to what is harassment.

Hmmm, call the call an ambulance, or wait I can just pour some bleach on her while she’s still alive, because she’s so bloody and ugly right now. We’ll just see what happens after that soaks in, I’m just gonna go to bed now.

my little brother (not an altar boy) did get molested by another kid at schoo, a boy twice his size. not only did no one do shit but my mother had to literally YELL and FIGHT verbally for his safety after going to see the teacher then the principal three different times for them to simply seat him far from this kidin…

Exactly. I had a conversation with my mother about this. She says, “You can’t deny the Catholic church has done a lot of good around the world.”

The straight-up numbers aren’t really my problem with the church’s behavior. A certain number of pedos are just gonna exist in any population, and predators learn very quickly to hide their predilections from anyone in authority.

Start charging them as accessories. That’s what they are.

I currently identify as atheist, but was raised Catholic, and remember being an alterboy in the 80s and us joking about avoiding molestation.  Like, this has been a publicly known issue for longer then most people have been alive.

You have to keep in mind that my ex-husband is one of the fakest human beings on the planet, so he just gave my mother a big smile and thanked her. I am someone who really can’t hide my feelings from being obvious on my face, so I often used his fakeness as a way of dealing with her. She’d pull her nonsense and he…

Also, I read somewhere that one of the best gifts you can give to new parents is hire a cleaning crew for them. I’ve done this and I don’t think I was being insulting; in fact, I think the recipients were genuinely grateful.

“told her no thank you, on the spot.”