Alas, there is no comparably powerful group of women on campus. The closest thing would be some of the graduate TA’s, who basically make the core curriculum possible and based on the statistics in fields like English and Foreign Languages, would be more than half women. But that would require the university to care…

So, a TA treated you poorly (assuming there isn’t more to the story) and the process had a lot of bureaucratic red tape, and thus grad students have power?

The grad students at Mizzou have been agitating this year also on the conditions of grad students. The administration tried to cut their health insurance within a day of its renewal, citing some bullshit about Obamacare. They “gave in” by saying they’d renew it for one year more.

Remember, toughness is quantified by the ability to ignore the injustices other people suffer. He’s very tough. So is Wolfe.

I had an orthodontic technician that had long nails. I hated the guts out of that lady.

I take it you went to KU?

I would believe there was something wrong with her mentally. Social conditioning led her to direct it at women. I couldn’t really fight back— my brother was dying of cancer at the time, so having drama at home was literally unbearable. She knew about his illness too. I think my perpetual bad mood was what she…

I was laughably oblivious to passive aggressive behavior. My parents always told me not to read malice into people’s actions, and I guess I took that exuberantly to heart. In 4th grade, a boy on the bus told me one of my friends wasn’t speaking to me anymore. Of course, I hadn’t noticed. So I went to the girl and…

Makes you wonder how he feels about prison and rehabilitation. Or, like research using aborted fetuses, is it only okay for him to do it?

My parents really worked against that too. My mom talks about wanting to lose weight now, but she *never* talked about it during my childhood. She didn’t want me absorbing that.

Of course! He couldn’t be weaker than a non-man! But then the notion even of someone gay sharing the bathroom with him probably fills him with existential dread that he could never admit to. So he must fill his speeches with the protection of women, when it’s really the protection of his fragile, fragile masculinity.

I loathe this notion of “protecting the womenfolk” too. When a woman says “I would be uncomfortable with penises in my locker room” I say, I think you’ll have to adjust in the future, but I understand, it makes me a little uncomfortable too.

No joke, a user named “Hyacinth Bouquet” liked my comment. I was pleased. And now you gave me an opportunity to share my smile on an otherwise dismal story.

I wish I could feel it was about supporting him. It feels more like being pissed off that she rocked the boat. Maybe that’s just me.

It’s hard to fathom, isn’t it? They trust a man who has confessed to something horrible more than a girl who revealed he had done something horrible to her. Something something keeping up appearances.

When he implored that I admit my wrongness without refuting my point, I’m sure that was just his way of trying to spare me the embarrassment. His rhetorical genius would surely have been devastating. I can’t risk risking humiliation like that again; I’ll be more respectful to PTA experts in future.

I asked for his forgiveness. I hope he grants it. I really blew it, didn’t I?

It’s a school organization composed of people associated with the school. You’re right, it’s terribly wrong of me to assume that they could at the very least direct them to the right parties with which to lodge the complaint.

A tiresome wall of text. Here’s what you wrote that matters:

It feels kind of cruddy to have emotional reactions I don’t intellectually agree with. When I was in high school, I thought homosexuality seemed icky and therefore didn’t see why it needed support. I’m still ashamed of being so thoughtless, though I know I was young at the time. What a complicated process it is to…