Are you really saying that the German women out celebrating NYE should have been more culturally aware and dressed more ‘respectfully’ as such to avoid being robbed, mugged and assaulted?? Tell me that’s not what you just said.

From the BBC: “What is particularly disturbing is that the attacks appear to have been organised. Around 1,000 young men arrived in large groups, seemingly with the specific intention of carrying out attacks on women.”http://www.bbc.com/news/world-eur…

Not mine, but here’s an old family story that comes by way of my late Great-Grandmother, a hardy rural Yugoslavian woman if there ever was one.

Shout out to whoever had to get up at 6am because school started at 7am. I feel for you.

Im going to identify as a cat. I’ve known I was a cat since I was five. I have lived the cat-experience.

I heard she was identifying as a dickbag when she sued them.

"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.

I do pro-choice clinic escorting in the Midwest. I was struck by how much less hostile the British protestors are.

An interesting book that I feel applies to this analysis is "Society Must Be Defended!" by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. In this book, compiled from a series of lectures he gave, he begins by asking himself what insights might be gained from an inversion of the famous Clausewitz aphorism, "politics…

Why are we acting like this is only about her touching her 1 year old sister's vagina when she was 7 and not also about emotionally coercing her sister into sleeping in her bed and then masturbating while she sleeps? And about paying her sister in candy to give her long kisses on the lips? And about paying her sister…

I agree, it's nauseating whenever I see talking heads talk about all the values and life lessons one learns from football. There are values like hard work and teamwork but it's not like that can't be taught in other activities. Quite frankly, there are few redeeming qualities taught in football. It teaches people…

Um, except that's exactly what it means to be a feminist. The only difference is that you may be afraid of other people not understanding the meaning of the word.

I agree with what you're saying, but I have to admit I'm not seeing all the bases of the argument being covered. Many of the anti-whine comments (and I'm picking on yours at random, please pardon that, no offense intended) seem to have the same blind spot (but yours may not - it's more thoughtful). The "just work…