My kid has a learning disability, grew up in a broken home (thanks for that; nice way to characterize a difficult but necessary thing, not the slightest bit stigmatizing!), and spent his childhood at or just above the poverty line. Homeschooling is what compensated for that. Our few attempts at school made that very…

Wow. This is just...wow. I mean, really, do you think homeschooling mothers encase themselves and their children into sealed pods so they never have to speak to anyone but each other? Where do you think co-ops, homeschool support schools, homeschool-only classes, and homeschool support groups come from? Who do you…

Don’t bother with mourning. You’re not missing many kids you actually want in your classroom.

How can you possibly be baffled when the answer is in your own post? You came to America with your family, and you all worked together.

Looks like I might have been right.

He probably saw the girls as a sexual threat to his sons. Either he interpreted their behavior as seductive, or they were acting out sexually.

It appears that, thanks to all this publicity, it's being reported for her. I really hope I'm wrong about how this ends.

I don't think that a rape victim reporting the crime can take down everyone around her. I know she can, because I did something similar. It's like breaking open an ink packet. The stain is very dark, it spreads very quickly, and it doesn't always wash out.

I'm not projecting. I'm trying to stay focused on the fact that they were right. Their motives weren't 100% pure, but trashing them for that is like trashing Jackie for dating one of her attackers or going to a frat party. We have got to get out of this headspace where the only way a woman can be right about…

I'm advocating that it is okay to talk honestly with a rape victim about the damage done by reporting it, so that her decision is fully informed. The only reason her friends' reputations were at stake was because hers was. They were protecting themselves, but they were protecting her, too. They weren't doing it very…

Dude, are you completely unaware of the rape kit backlogs across the country? Or the incredibly low arrest rate for reported rapes, about 25%? Conviction rates are even worse. Look it up. Reporting a rape is useless at best, suicide at worst.

Look, I don't like it one bit, but their advice was sound. Was there a bit of self-protection in it? Sure, because the stain was going to spread to them. Still, the primary focus was the stain, and they were 100% right about that. Not only would Jackie take herself down with a report, she would take everyone around…

Did you read the article? Did you read what happened as she started to come forward? About people taunting her, someone throwing a bottle at her so hard that it broke on her face?

The body heals. The reputation? Not so much. Had she kept pushing the report beyond where she took it, she would likely have been driven from the school, overtly or covertly, whether or not the case went to trial, and there's a good chance that it wouldn't have, especially if she knew her assailants, was where she was…

Nope, it's wise. Her female friends knew the score better than the men did.

I would agree with you if I didn't know from extensive experience that it doesn't work that way. Seizing the reins of empowerment too often results in disaster. A friend of mine died that way, trying to escape an abusive husband. He choked her to death with his bare hands. The extent to which my reporting the assaults…

Telling women to say no to seeing their rapist a second ignores a cascade of negative consequences for doing so. Trust me, I tried it and my father chewed me out, calling me all kinds of names and making it clear that if I ever did that again, there would be consequences. Yes, he knew. He chose to minimize and then…

Translation: "Please remember, everyone, that the great Bill Cosby is far more important than any mere female he may or may not have raped."

Thank you for this. My son isn't autistic, but he was a homebody, and if I immediately left the building every time he threw a tantrum, I would have been rewarding his bad behavior by giving him what he wanted. He had to learn to cope, which wasn't going to happen if I paid his tantrums any attention.

He might not have been quoting the meme. That's a turn of phrase that's been kicking around since before the internet.