Right. Because every rape victim ever has always been immediately aware of the severity of what took place and never tries to excuse, rationalize or blame themselves for what happen. No rape victim has ever remained silent because they feared shame, reprisal or further abuse for making "a big deal" out of having been…

This. I remember the first time I was cat-called. I was out with friends. We were 12. I was terrified. I was even more terrified when one of my girlfriends decided to throw a handful of small stones at them while yelling "We are children! We just paid $5 each to see a G rated movie because we are god damn children!"
Yea…

Not having access to the appropriate words is not dumb.

Yeah. It's stupid broad. I'm talking about the words I see teenagers use to describe their own activity. They aren't pros at accurately labelling behaviours.

Unless the population you are trying to appeal too labels this behaviour as 'sexting' rather than harassment. You can't sell teens on using an anti-harassment app if the idea that they are being harassed is total foreign and confusing to them.

Yes. You missed a thing.

The sight lines from my house we nearly a half mile, besides not being able to field your own soccer team of siblings, it sounds like we had similar boundaries.

I'm not discounting anything you've said, but we do have very different experiences. Agian, part of it may be affluence, part of might be that I'm Canadian, but my experience with social services was always positive. It's not like they have a kid-quota to meet. My mother fostered, which meant regular visits from these…

It's not the autonomy I'm responding too, or the lack of adult supervision, it's the 'alone'. I'm not all that concerned about the statistically unlikely, yet utterly catastrophic, possibility of really evil child predators. I'm much more concerned about concussions, animal bites and broken bones that are much more…

I understand parents being advised not to do this by law enforcement.

You aren't more likely to die during a 'stranger rape' than a 'date rape'. People are far more likely to be killed by someone they know, and even more likely to be killed by someone who has a history of physical and/or sexual violence towards them. Rapists who do not know their victims, very rarely murder. People who…

You are right, that was careless typing on my part. Should have read Manitoba, not Winnipeg.

It's worse than that really. According to the Winnipeg Sun, all the CFIA is asking for is three years of medical records. Nothing to do with how he was originally acquired. (Canada actually makes all sorts of allowances when respectable conservation programs seek to purchase animals that are native to Canada from…

I don't know shit about the journalist in question, but at this point, we should really be able to recognize this behaviour from the Vatican.

You can find videos on YouTube. You are still held in place, but not nearly so squished.

I don't know if the overall effect of getting new digital monogram machines, with tomosynthesis extension, resulted in less radiation overall than your doctors previous machines, but tomosynthesis does result in a bit of extra radiation as compared to the normal mammogram routine.
It's just the increase in radiation is…

It does a teen a whole world of good to have their parent's controlling and crazy as shit behaviour called out as controlling and crazy as shit, calming and clearly, by other adults. Sure, berating is never helpful, but one of the reasons minors do have all sorts of rights when it comes to confidentially with their…

Constantly. The contestants in previous seasons were CONSTANTLY mentioning religion, their faith and God. Sure, they often avoided mentioning specific denominations and tried to keep it generic brand 'Christian' but sometimes it was laid on so thick you could choke on it. There has been a marked decrease this year in…

It's great that Francis is de-emphasizing the hatred of people who don't conform to Catholic teaching - that is an real improvement for the papacy - but he's still peddling the exact same old shit. The idea that what defines the moral worthiness and goodness of a human being is what they do with their sex organs.

Wente is horrible. Seriously, this is actually one of the more reasonable things she has ever written. She is constantly prattling one about some form of gender essentialism or another, and I think she's been getting worse lately. Being knocked back to second most-embarrassing Torontonian on the world stage has been…