That was FASCINATING.

I watched at work right now. I’m both impressed and angry. It’s pretty, but such a huge waste of time and restricts you from being able to do anything.

Totally legitimate, but now I’m wondering - if you’re the parent, at what point do you tell your child what happened? Never? I’m assuming the kid wouldn’t be able to google his or herself and find it later since the names of minors should be redacted. Maybe part of being a parent is keeping something this big a secret…

I mostly can’t get past the fact that he bears more than a passing resemblance to Stifler from American Pie.

I think a lot of adult conversations are the same ones we had as fourth-graders, just longer and more nuanced.

I’ve always been told that you can repent on your deathbed and be given access. Which means, I don’t know why people aren’t more directly/proudly evil when they know they can be given a free pass.

When my husband and I were engaged, we had to do pastoral counseling before we could marry at my parents’ church. The pastor kept asking us “When you stand at the gates of heaven, and God asks you why you should be allowed in, what will you say?”

Or the belief that her “slate is wiped clean” because she converted.

I’m not sure which is more terrifying: the fact that this woman is attempting to establish a very dangerous legal precedent, that her views are common enough in her county and state that the odds of her losing her job over this are slim, or that she can say to these people with a smile on her face that she “is not…

Thank the FSM that plenty of women share your sentiments.

Yup. I had this moment of relief like, “Oh, good! At least the kids didn’t suffer direct physical trauma or violation, so that’s better, right?” And then I just felt bad.

Interesting. I don’t see him as pretty at all.

Ganges river dolphin skull for reference and for nightmares

I had that moment too. A horrible intrusion, but no acts were forced upon them. Not that it in no way diminishes they’re being victims of a terrible human being.

I would prefer that he put a few more of these under his belt. Then he and I could talk. . .

Meryl Streep needs to play her in a biopic!

Fuck yeah!

Look, let’s face it. Men are far too emotional to be trusted with the power of governing things.