Boy, if I were her, I would take a few weeks off first. She’s going to need the rest to prepare for all that fighting she is planning to do.

I am white, and I understand that our experiences are, in many ways, significantly different. But I also dislike and recoil from movies about slavery because I don’t want to sit and watch Black actors playing roles in which their characters are brutalized on-screen. I don’t think it is about my ignorance or racism, as…

Well, I agree, but that is kind of the point of the piece: the author had a sex act performed upon her that she didn’t want performed and didn’t consent to being performed. That’s why I think it is rape, though probably not legally actionable.

I get your point, but I also think it’s possible to draw a distinction between “sexual assault” as a penal charge upon which a perpetrator may be criminally convicted, and “rape” as a violation of the boundaries of the person upon whom the sex was performed. (Although there are penal laws that define “rape” as a…

I’d just like to point out that the customer in the story did not reject the gluten-free toast because it had been made in a toaster that was also used for regular toast. The first time she raised the issue, she was informed before she ate that the toast was made in a toaster used for regular bread, and she ate that…

When I saw the headline, I thought, “c’mon, you’re just looking for a different way to describe the usual hostile customers.” Then I read the column.