Dude. From the Huffington Post: “I couldn’t speak up because I was afraid of retaliation — that I would get fired if I spoke up,” one female staffer told The Huffington Post about why she never revealed what had happened to her.”

You think the quote contradicts something I said? Weird.

Uhm, not according to the Huffington Post, where you can see that employees had been suffering in silence for quite a while until everything exploded a couple of weeks ago. They were motivated by the same feelings as victims in other organizations, fear of reprisal among them.

The lines are so huge at these events, that all a terrorist would have to do is explode something / shoot before the metal detection gates. I guess it would lower the terrorist’s artistic grade to pull something off outside of the gates rather than inside, but, really, the damage would be huge anyway. Go upstream,…

Would you put the “false” qualifier first, or leave it as it is, Lunchcoma?

That was quite a revelatory thread, wasn’t it? The writers’ feelings about their audience were on full display.

Sorry this is happening to you, CreamDeCrop. You did nothing wrong. I was greyed a couple of months ago by Clover Hope over a similar totally mild comment. It’s ridiculous that the writers are using the grey system to punish commenters instead of filtering out spam.

She might be quoting because she is referring to specific allegations. For example she might have been really beaten with a spatula, but not with “baseball bat,” so she’s denying the “baseball bat.” Possible?

I don’t work with legal writing at all, hence my question: is it customary to use this kind of word order: “completely outrageous, malicious, reckless, and false”? The most important adjective, the one that touches on the facts themselves (“false”), is last instead of first. It doesn’t read as sincere as it would if…

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Ha! With that, you definitely win the moral battle here, absolute fucking idiot-monster.

Sorry about your sister. Was she a minor?

Thanks for all the lessons. You can all shove them. If my underaged daughter ever comes home beaten and bruised, I’m calling the police. I’m just cruel and arrogant and unempathetic like that.

Hyacinth, seriously, thanks for the support here, because I thought it's Opposite Day on Jezebel today. If not even parents of minors can be reasonably expected to stand up for their abused kids, what hope is there for victims.

A troll, because I think a parent should call the police when their kid comes home beaten and bruised. Amazing, truly amazing.

I’d counter with the fact that it’s easy to get prosecutions against abusive men of color, presuming, of course, that the abusive man in question was a man of color too.

Astounding to me that you guys find it so damn difficult to go through the thought experiment of having a victimized kid. It must be torture not to know what to do when your kid comes home with bruises. So, so difficult to decide what to do. A real conundrum.

So, because the worst might happen, do nothing and let the worst happen anyway. Great.

It’s precisely BECAUSE he is likely to pull the trigger that I would go to the police. The kid is a minor, in your care. Your duty is to care for the kid. I’m stunned this is a controversial opinion all of a sudden.

Yeah, I embrace my insensitivity on this one. If my daughter ever comes home bruised and I have reason to worry that her life is in danger, I won’t do nothing, which is the course you’re defending. I’m frankly stunned by your reaction. Substitute teachers would have a duty to call the police if they saw it, but god…