I'm a lesbian and I also dress in a feminine way and am friendly and polite, which men regularly choose to interpret as flirting. Here's my take on your situation. Hearing someone's a lesbian isn't always reliable, that's true, it depends a lot on who you heard it from and in what context, which I don't know. The best…

This is so incredibly rude. I'm just sick of bi/pan/sexually fluid people saying that being a lesbian and not being open to dating men means caring more about genitals than personality. 'Personality' is not independent of gender. Gender is not dependent on genitals. Just because you used to identify as a lesbian…

And this is why we need to bring comprehensive history education back* into American schools. And not just Patriot!American history, but a history that is actually set in a world context and which explores not just events but their causes and effects. I went to high school (something that happened <10 years ago) with…

These aren't funny. And coming from a guy they're irritating and rude. Just saying two stereotypes (and those aren't even really actual stereotypes? like the softball thing kind of) and one sexual thing that doesn't even make any sense isn't a joke so much as some tired, dull heterosexism.

Hey, LaComtesse, I know this is weird to just randomly respond to you on a Jez comment, but I don't have GT posting privileges and I was just MORTIFIED in a meeting where my female boss (the president of the company, also, is French and therefore thinks its ok to point out fat Americans) told me that just because I'm…

I think what he's saying is that the violations are made so much worse BECAUSE he's a police officer, someone we're supposed to trust for help and assistance and protection, and he abused his position by using that trust to commit horrendous violations.

This is really unethical of me and I still feel bad about it. That said…it is my only revenge story, and it is epic.

I don't care if it was illegal, that was well deserved. I dated a terrible person myself when I was younger, sexual assault, mental and physical abuse, stalking (there was one point in time where I couldn't go to the store to pick up cheese without having a phone tree a mile long just to make sure he wasn't following…

That reminds me of a similar incident in high school. I was in a very boring, very required class and I had like 110% or something. The teacher kept giving extra credit because so many people were failing and he didn't want to have them in class again.

I have an excellent revenge story, but it requires some time to get the full effect.

When I was in high school, I had the misery of living across the street from a vacation home that was known as THE PARTY HOUSE to every person in my high school. My parents, who were cool but not that cool, kept a wary eye on the house on weekends while I spent my time inside miserably knowing that everyone in my…

I was walking home from the bar with some of my friends, and I'd bought a large thing of poutine for all of us to share while we walked home. It was a nice night, and all the bars were packed and there were lots of drunk people standing around on the street smoking and waiting to get into the bars. We walk by a clump…

I did a fair amount of oat-sowing my freshman year of college. The school wasn't known for its diversity, and I was one of the few black girls on campus. Since I stuck out like a sore thumb, most of my hookups were followed by a fair deal of boasting and gossip. Depending on your gender, I was commonly referred to as…

I don't know if this constitutes revenge but I worked for an agency a long time ago (before my professional career), where they were repeatedly abusing non-verbal adults in this crisis home. It was through over-restraints. There was a veil of secrecy in all of this—I only saw glimpses of the worst because I worked on…

*Stands on all the women who have worked their asses off so she can stand there today* Feminism is not important and I don't like it. "*walks away on all the women who continue to be oppressed today and tomorrow.*

Having reviewed a number of Title IX policies/procedures at a variety of universities, I can feel pretty confident in guessing that not much will come from FSU's investigation here. People often forget that Title IX contains much more than just equal numbers of teams or funding for sports — it also concerns a school's…

I'm so happy a Cox could stand up for vaginas everywhere.

If your line-up can't handle a couple games without a key player, you probably have bigger problems to address.