"Men" and "boys" in general do not need to take classes to learn that rape (or harassment for that matter) is wrong. We ALL know that. We also ALL know that no matter how "slutty" she dressed or how much she drank, does not make it right. That is not the issue. The issue is that SOME a-holes don't care. Should one or…

"10% talking about telling men not to rape, it's hardly wrong to point out that that is a terrible way to address it."

Its because the OP would rather wish a perfect world into existence then deal with reality. Promoting the ability to protect one's self is good. Even if it isn't from sexual assault, knowing how to react to a mugging or a jumping or pretty much any violent attack is really useful.

why do people seem to think that learning self-defense and teaching men not to rape are mutually exclusive? no one is blaming the victim if she gets rape, anything she can do to protect herself is good. also no one is blaming rape victims for not knowing self defense. we can try to teach people not to murder or…

Ever since Sandyhook and the theater shooting there have been so many more shootings than ever before.

Yes to these kids suffering from mental illness, but boo to the idea that this is somehow specific to internet-era kids. There were so many cases in the 80s where teenagers becoming violent was attributed to heavy metal music, or horror movies, or even Dungeons & Dragons. Remember when they tried to pin Columbine on…

The mentally ill would just obsess about something else if they didn't get online. There are plenty of mentally ill people who have delusions around religions; others around celebrities. The focus of their craziness does not cause the craziness.

I think it gets reported more in press then before, plus kids have easy access to media.

There is a world of difference between people who forget their child while heading into work—and that is something that I understand and fear—and those who run into a store for five minutes. The Weingarten piece is about people whose routines are changed in just a tiny way, while the Brooks piece is about someone who…

This is my favorite exchange, ever.

SPF 30 is no different than SPF 50. All it means is that you reapply it every 500 minutes instead of every 300 minutes*. It doesn't mean it's stronger. Also a lot of high SPF's don't actually test what their number is. A lot of times SPF 80 or SPF 100 lotions actually test around SPF 30 to 60. A lot of high SPF…

I usually dump nasty leftovers from the fridge down the toilet because we don;t use our green bin, too many racoons. Don't know if that is good or not, but whatever... I was dumping out a shaker cup of narsty-arsed protein shake from my husband's workout one day. I dumped without realizing that the wee whisk ball was…

Hey I love nothing more than rolling up my t-shirt sleeves like Dylan McKay on 90210, heading over to the food court at the local mall, and not only reading a YA novel, but really "getting" it, in full public view. Why just the other week I remember setting this dog-eared paperback down against my busom, pensively…

LOL! (as the kids would say)

I wish I could give you extra stars, but fortunately there are at least 199 people who agree with me!

Gender equality just isn't everyone's passion, and y'all are gonna have to learn to make your peace with that instead of picking on people for it. It's fine, really! I bet many of you are just bored to tears by environmental activism, or by trying to find a cure for cancer, or economic justice, or whatever other…

Stewart's name will appear on the official sex offender registry during his probation. Maybe he should have married his bike first?

I'm confused. They went in with a key after knocking, were shocked by the display, then, of course, told their manager, who told the police, and the guy was arrested for....disorderly conduct?

Well put. This article makes this ruling seem like a gross miscarriage of justice when it's basically standard pretrial legal procedure and motions practice that has nothing to do with any sort of political stance.

What's the issue? That there is a dress code? That it was enforced?