Oh look! Another one!
Oh look! Another one!
I'm not sure. I know that's how we talk about rape, but I think there's more to it than that, because an awful lot of rapists don't seem to recognize themselves in that description. Some do, but I'm not even sure it's most. It's why I dislike that description. When we start taking like that, we create a situation…
With murder, there's usually a sense that the victim is owed justice, a life for a life, and a sense of responsibility to the family. Going after the killer evens the score.
Gah! I need to edit more carefully! "He was seemed genuinely pleased..." The "was" was left over from an earlier attempt at trying to express more or less the same thing.
The language is really interesting: They can't unrape you. It's as if once a woman is raped, there's no point in doing anything because what's done can't be undone. It's not like robbery, where they can recover the stolen goods, so what's the point? She's damaged goods now, and always will be, so why ruin a man's life…
I do know that. They've also been crystal-clear that unless symptoms are present, a person isn't contagious.
All of those things you talk about, the businesses going to expensive extremes or having to close their doors, are the result of fear-driven bad decisions on the part of the general public. Meanwhile, what people suggest to combat that isn't getting more qualified people to Africa to fight this on its home ground,…
I think what's reasonable is asking people to follow a protocol developed by the organization that's been on the front lines of this problem since it started, not protocols developed by people who are being scared by speculation, their own or that of others. This virus has been around for decades. We know how it…
Comparatively few returning health care workers have become infected. Among the hundreds of MSF staff, there have been just over a dozen cases of Ebola, and most were caught while the person was still in Africa. The worst problem with infected health care workers was within the US itself, the two nurses in Texas who…
Let me see if I got this right:
As an alternative, how about saying, "How long has it been like that? Have you seen someone about it?" via return text?
Your mother wasn't treating you as an equal, she was having a personality trait that caused conflict. Being indecisive is usually a global thing, not just a parenting thing, frustrating to deal with sometimes, but not a way of treating a child as an equal. It's about treating the self as inferior, not about the child…
I suppose I simply disagree. I always considered my son an equal, in the sense that he was as human at every stage as I was, and deserved the same respect I would give any human being. I dealt with the kids I cared for the same way. I would no more engineer a situation or refuse to make a minor alteration in order to…
People wondered why I homeschooled. There were many reasons, but this was a big one.
Although we agree on the strict for strictness sake thing, we still disagree on the amount of consideration a child needs. It doesn't hurt them to treat them as people, as one would a spouse or a friend, and I've found that I get a lot more respect from a child when I have treated them with respect. Not only does that…
It's true that kids shouldn't always get what they want, but unless they're a Kardashian or some such, they never do. In a normal household, there are plenty of situations in which a child's wishes cannot be accommodated. Those are the times for teaching lessons about patience and whatnot, and the lessons are easier…
The idea that a missed precaution turns you into fair game isn't weird. It's how these cases are handled, legally and socially. Any missed precaution can get it thrown out before the guy who did it is even considered a suspect, or it can turn a conviction into the victim being accused of being a liar. Ask any woman…
Actually, it's about creating another excuse for the rapists. Every time we get another precaution that women are expected to take, we hand anyone who wants to rape a new Get Out of Jail Free card.
Ex-homeschooling mom here. I was honestly surprised to see fingertip-length dresses okayed for a homeschooled prom. One expects floor-length, knee-length at the shortest.
Sigh...this kind of thing sounds so brilliant until it's your kid who turns out to have ADHD. Then no amount is alternative educational environments will teach Johnny much of anything, not even if you turn off the noisemakers and give him something he's passionate about. We know because we tried.