Another thing is — it's going to create sympathy for people on the list — they will be seen as the victims of false accusations and maybe they are. Maybe they are not. Either way — this is not an effective way to deal with any problem.

I was wondering that myself.

They do. Why else are people doing this? Because they know ALL it takes is an accusation to ruin someone. Ask any 4th grader who has been called a slut.

Well said, well said, well said. And you will now here about how the system doesn't work and people are scared and that is true — but writing leaflets and leaving them in a bathroom doesn't work either. In fact, it scares me that that inspires trust in some people. To you again I say — well said.

Well said. It's actually terrifying how many people thing this is a good idea or that these people are automatically guilty. Anyone can put anyone's name on a list. I have a friend from Chile whose neighbor was tortured by Chile. Under the most unspeakable torture, he named his neighbor (her father) who had done…

Anyone can put your name on a list for any reason. Do you want police showing up at your door and arresting you because your name was on an anonymous list?

I saw that video. I saw what you did. Both he and Beyonce stood there totally calm as Solange lost it. I have a crazy person in my family and when she loses it, we all just go calm like that. There is nothing else to do. No other way to stop her. That is what this looked like to me — except they were lucky…

Well said. I totally agree. But people here will jump on you. I don't know why. Why do people think it is effective to expect people to say, "Yes, all white males are whatever" or "all whites are whatever" — people really expect that people who are attacked won't defend themselves. They will. They have a right…

That's funny — I have been gluten-free for 15 years and am amazed that all of a sudden, it's a "thing." I can find entire gluten-free restaurants and shops — find places that list GF items on the menus — it's a freaking miracle — but everyone acts as if I have jumped on the trendy bandwagon. Nope. I am child-free…

When my grandmother died and she had her children and grandchildren around her bed — lots and lots of people there for her, protecting her, making sure she was clean and loved and comfortable, it did occur to me that I would have no one when I got old, because I have no kids (and neither do my sibs). That is NOT a…

Okay. First of all, you would use (sic) if you were quoting an error made by someone else, so I have no idea why you used it hear. FWIW, the term "bear with me" is correct.

Yes — DR, DR, that's it. That's what I remember. Not South America — Central America — it is so scary how much I have forgotten in the decades since college. Thank you for the info.

I fucking love you! I was trying to remember this, too. Did we take the same class in college? I seem to remember this in South America, though...ugh, college was a LONG TIME ago for this oldster!

I remember first really learning about this in college (I had heard about it before). I learned about it in a class on Native American Literature (that's what it was called) and apparently, intersexed children, rare as they were, were recognized and totally honored. They were thought to make great shamans, to have…

What a lovely campus! Did anyone else notice that pretty waterfall sculpture thing the girl was sitting at? It's a really nice campus — why is a guy who is lucky enough to go to a four year college, and such an attractive one as that — so determined to make everything so ugly for everyone?

You didn't watch the thing on Vice. There's a link.http://www.vice.com/vice-profiles/… He's been hit a few times. I am wondering if it's just a matter of time before he gets killed — or decides to kill people.

I have never heard of good group therapy. What is that? I have heard of and experienced hideously abusive group therapy — but good group therapy? What is that?

He needs help. I am scared he might do something violent. If you watch that thing about him on Vice and he's asked how many close friends he has and he doesn't answer — it is just creepy. Sad and creepy and I feel like he might want to play G-d one day and send some people to hell for him.

The odds of Jane Austen having met Dido are very high. Her extremely wealthy brother lived near Dido and Jane Austen spent a lot of time at her brother's house. As for Lord Mansfield, how anyone could read Mansfield Park and not see it for what it is — an indictment of slavery (MANSFIELD park! Come ON, people!), I…

I love you. That dick is going to slam you for that — don't let it get to you. What the realeileenisback wrote is so wrong. Fuck her and thank you for posting!