What happened to you is horrible, and I’m very sorry. But this author telling her story is no more “one-sided” or biased against men than you telling your story is one-sided or biased against women.

This reminds me of a good friend of mine who is the friend of a friend of the man who tried to rape me. He told me it was a very good thing I hadn’t said anything to the authorities. Because I’d screamed loud enough to be heard by neighbors, had visible bruises and broken skin from fighting him off, and had reported…

When I was in high school, my ROTC instructor used to brag about this one time a female student accused him of sexual abuse, and how the entire community rallied around him to defend him to the school board and eventually shamed the girl so much she had to leave town. I always thought it was bizarre that this was the…

I told my family about the neighbor years later, when I was in college. They responded with an uncomfortable silence, and it has never been brought up again. Thankfully, I have good friends that I am able to talk to (many who experienced similar things).

Thank you for sharing your story. When I was 9, and playing softball in little league, a girl on my team accused the coach of touching her inappropriately. Everyone accused the girl of lying, because her family was poor, and her dad was an alcoholic. My parents wouldn’t let me play with her anymore, and I can remember…

I make this plea a lot, but please, Jezzies, leave the assholes and trolls in the grays. You’re not going to be able to reason with the idiot suggesting sexual molestation in America is a silly non-issue because of ISIS. You’re not going to successfully school the charming gentlemen who doesn’t believe victim blaming…

“Interestingly now I research how sex offenders get away with what they do - the facade they put on, the grooming tactics they use. It’s sickening how they create this persona around them that makes it nearly impossible for others to see them as at all culpable. And somehow, they turn it all onto the kid and the kid…

Thank you for writing about this. I remember in the 7th grade that there was an 8th girl, kind of popular and already developing, who was rumored to be “having an affair” with the PE teacher/football coach. I remember at that time that we blamed her - that we thought she was a “slut,” that we though she had enough…

I feel you. I really do. But it’s a slippery slope. As a union teacher, I shudder at the thought that my pension could be impacted if a fellow educator at my school did something worthy of a law suit. I’m not responsible for some other person’s shit behavior. I wish there was an easy solution. =/

I wonder is there any reason why she cannot sue the officers personally as well as the police department...? Legal jezzies?

And that lawsuit will cost the taxpayers money, not the police. I’m not saying she shouldn’t sue, I’m saying the proceeds from the suit should come from the police retirement funds. When the “few” bad cops start costing the “good” cops money, then maybe the good cops will do something about their “brothers” behavior.

Dude, for real. I am a very good writer, highly verbal. It’s a struggle. My mom, also highly verbal, made fun of me for it a couple times until I screamed at her that it was from the medication. Like, damn, she, of all people, should have been known that wasn’t normal for me.

I have a similar issue because of the number of concussions I’ve sustained (partially from all of the sports I played as a child, and partially from being an utter fucking spaz/klutz as an adult). It’s scary because they weren’t taken seriously when I was a kid - shake it off was the general consensus - and as an…

Congrats on six year seizure free and I hope you have many more!

I had no idea she had an aneurism. I can understand her frustrations, though on a milder level. I have epilepsy (going on 6 years seizure-free!), and the brain effects after a seizure are similarly infuriating, as are some of the side effects I get from my medications, which fuck with my balance and my word recall.

My company did something similar this year. All our employees paid for school supplies and books out of our own paychecks, and then we scheduled several events at community centers throughout the state. Each child who attended could get everything on their school supply list if they also chose a book and read from it…

I am happy that these boys are being encouraged to read while getting cute for back to school. The world needs more Mr. Holmes’ in it.

She’s had a hell of a life already, with her family situation, fame, internet weirdos and this. It’s amazing she has such a level head on her shoulders.

Good for her! I am jealous because I desperately want a reduction but my insurance provider desperately wants to not cover it, so here we are. (“We” = me and my giant breasts)