There hasn't been an uproar because Harada was very aware of the sensitivity of creating such a character. He did research and consulted with the players. The result is a bit more toned down in comparison to the concept sketches shown last fall.

These stories were the reason that I decided (drunkenly, when all good decisions are made) to get on OkCupid. I felt like I was missing out and wanted some stupid messages from men to mock and laugh at.

I've had many of these conversations over the past several months. And I've been trying to sharpen my perspective on this problem, the problem of the "how do I help," question. I offer these comments with compassion and great respect for your commitment to children and families:

Just help. Just do what your…

I really wish I could've asked Don Lemon how he would feel if a lady bit his penis. Angry? Violent? Pissed off?

Seriously. Like, maybe, MAYBE you won't sustain the same level of injury if you fight back and everything works out perfectly, but guess what? You still got attacked. On the Don Lemon thread I was saying, okay let's game it out: fine, bite the guy's penis, but if it got that far, you still got raped.

I know we're trying to make light of a really terrible situation, but goddamn do I hate people who offer "ways of stopping these things." Do they think even if someone thwarts the attack that they will not be traumatized at all? They'll just be fine?

Come to think of it, how do we know Obama wasn't the catcaller? Wake up America.

You know, I was *going* to say "geez, the dude stabbed him while he and his girlfriend were in a group of people? Like, multiple witnesses and potential defenders/retaliators? That's really intense. Maybe the stabber is a homeless person with a serious untreated mental illness, which would make this a double tragedy,…

Lolz, can we please simultaneously laugh and bawl our eyes out at the comments from the linked article?

Are you being polarizing? I think this might be the best season of AHS yet and I'm unsure what value NPH can bring outside of celebritized bullshit. And the addition of his husband? Lame.

I agree with you 100%. But I just had to jump in to say that animals also do not exist to meet people's emotional needs. Pets are great at helping humans in so many ways, and I know that my dog, for example, can always make me feel better when I'm down. But animals are living creatures too, with their own wants and…

This really kind of relates to the Guantanamo Baby story that was just posted and the idea of bodily autonomy ie no one has the right to touch you if you don't want to be touched. As a person on the autism spectrum, this is a very important thing to me since I'm really not much of a toucher naturally. Friends often…

Children do not exist to meet adults' emotional needs. They're not pets, they're people. They have emotional needs of their own, and perhaps the greatest one is that they get to say who is and isn't allowed to touch them. It's really frightening that you don't see any problem with what you wrote.

By saying grandmother's exist to huge their grandchildren you are expressly implying that grandchildren exist for their grandmothers. That's not true. People and children exist for their own reasons, they are not large stuffed animals.

I guess you missed this part:

I think it's awesome to teach kids that physical touch requires desire and consent from both parties, and it's brilliant to start that at the earliest age at which a child doesn't have to be held to necessitate care.

I was sitting in Central Park once and a little girl came up to me and gave me a flower out of nowhere. I accepted it and said thank you, then she threw her arms around me and gave me this huge hug. It was adorable.

It is also SO adorable when a kid you've interacted with for five minutes spontaneously decides to hug you goodbye. Kids do know what they're doing way more than we give credit.

i once said to a little kid, "can i have a high-five?"

I love this, and that you're doing this for your daughter. The idea that little kids aren't people who have just as much right to refuse physical affection as anyone else is kind of mind-boggling to me. Can you imagine someone telling you as a full grown adult "Hug this person that you just met!" Ick.