Monica Lewinsky has been legitimately harassed for something she did not file a lawsuit about

What the fuck? How is this in any way analogous? Also Bill Clinton IS a rapist.

Bill Clinton is a rapist, though? Isn't he? It's better than just screaming Bengazi.

Teens at that age often aren’t capable of realising the long-term effects of their actions (truly—it takes quite awhile for your brain to fully develop the concept of risk and consequence). Her parents absolutely failed her, here. She may really live to regret this—she might grow up as she gets older. Right now she’s…

I’m there with you. I recently ended a short-term, well-paying gig where I was doing potentially “morally questionable” ghostwriting. I told my boyfriend all about it, every day, and he never once put on his judgement hat, only supported what I needed to do at the time. He plays way too many video games for my taste,…

Well she was so young (and still is), encouraged by her family, etc. I feel bad for her in some ways. I think it’s very possible she will look back on this and really regret it.

Yeah this really bugged me. Like when I dated this guy I met in some activism circles who called me a sellout for pulling back on my activism and focus my time on going to grad school to become a librarian. A LIBRARIAN, of all things, was a sellout to him.

you can’t “kind of know someone” if you’ve never met them or talked ot them.

The root reason that people disagree over this is that there is a conflict between whether a school should admit based on objective qualifications (test scores) or some combination of objective and subjective (are you a minority? are you a legacy?) criteria. Obviously you fall into the latter camp, so it’s dissonance…

It bugs me just a bit that you felt you had to quit a lucrative gig because it offended your boyfriend’s finely tuned sense of social justice. From the way it sounds, you weren’t depriving a non-white student of a place at UT Austin; you were just indirectly helping prop up the delusions of adequacy of mediocre white…

This is bizarre. You do realize that there are people who got in, of all races, with lower scores, correct? So why should she receive a message of “you did not earn it”. Because there is a POINT process that takes into account a host of other qualifications of which race is one. By your own logic her parents could…

The best (not very good) idea I can think of is to address the specific inequality in influence between historically monied all male social clubs and their female equivalents. Figure out some kind of matching fund thing, or put in place policies that specifically include female social clubs in student government. All…

Yeah. I’m not necessarily opposed to gender-specific clubs, were we able to start from a point where the male-only clubs weren’t historically powerful gatekeepers who are both monied and well-networked. But here we are...

This was actually my concern when I read the story yesterday; that, in the hopes of doing away with the privilege attached to exclusive clubs, the actual benefits of gender specific clubs would be lost. It seems like there has to be some sort of middle ground, but I’m at a loss...

“We continue to believe that gender discrimination has no place on Harvard’s campus,”

Well, no, it is neither sacred nor profane. It is a body part. With a word associated to identify it. Insisting that WE OBVS CANT COMPREHEND YOUR ESOTERIC THINKING AND WHAT OF THE CHIIIIILLLLDREN doesn't mean it's correct.

I cannot express how happy I am that your Matilda Soliloquy appears to be performance art.

Write some letters and tell them how you feel, you CAN'T be the only Mom who has a little girl who is rough on her jeans. Start a petition. Do something! Little girls deserve good jeans too and the company probably just didn't even think about it.

And if the company writes you back saying little girls should be in…

I'm just fed up with patriarchy today on so many kegels (yes, I'm fighting back by inserting random gynocentric words into everything I write).