I think you're missing my point entirely. The mother should tell this kid to stop it. I have no objections to the content of her message, just the forum. I think there are a number of ways to tell this kid to knock it off that don't require her to make a youtube video. I imagine plenty of non-youtube saavy parents…

Why does he look so scary in that picture?! I like Lequizamo but he looks scary there for some reason ... I think maybe because he's not smiling with his eyes?

If that harasser doesn't want to be put on blast publicly, then he needs to stop harassing her daughter.

I don't think they have to be nice. But why is a youtube video helpful? They can talk to the parents, the school, or the police department. If these options are exhausted then, yes, by all means do a video, at least to put pressure on the school to deal with the problem and keep the daughter safe. And maybe she did…

She also blogs and has a twitter presence.

I agree that it's not her job to manage the kid's life, but I also think that depending on the social circumstances at the school, the youtube video might not be the best forum. Are we talking about a kid who's being egged on by his friends? Who's maybe doing it to annoy her? (In which case what he's doing might be…

Oh yeah, it may well be. There are a lot of maybes here that would change my reading of it. Is the kid being egged on by friends and/or doing it more to annoy her (in which case I'm far less concerned about the effect this video may have on him)? Is he a socially awkward kid who doesn't have a lot of friends? Does her…

I think you could very well be right. This video could end up doing all the things you describe. But it's hard to anticipate the kind of effect something like this will have on the parties involved. It could also go badly — and not just for the kid who's doing the harassing. Because of that, I would be really…

They definitely need to start teaching consent as part of sex ed.

I'm not unsympathetic to the girl. I agree, it sounds like she's being made to feel very uncomfortable. Is she being stalked? Maybe. I think if that's the case, the mother was actually being incredibly gracious here. She doesn't seem to be speaking to someone she thinks is dangerous, but a child who needs to learn…

The only potential issue I see is that even though she didn't name names, if any peers see it, they'll probably know who's mom she is and be able to easily identify who she's talking about, which could lead to his being bullied. Though I also understand she might have exhausted other avenues of getting this message…

Overall the message here is great and I agree that lots of kids could benefit from hearing it.

I was rooting for Quint.

Inconceivable!

I wanted to find an Oliver Platt gif to respond to you with, but then as I was looking through pictures of Oliver Platt, I realized in the younger pictures he kind of looks like a good friend of mine and now I have to break off a beautiful friendship. Thanks, itsnotthebeer.

I also don't like Kate Mara, but I think that's just because all I've seen her in is a shitty movie with Mark Wahlberg from a few years ago and House of Cards, which I hate. The writing on that show is so terrible that unless your name rhymes with Smobbin Smight you're not going to come out of it looking too good.

Lots of people like him! I don't get it.

Oh yeah, I don't think anyone can be patient with their opponents all the time. I'm definitely not.