I was kind of wet-eyed after watching the video but your comment brought me to the edge! Your dad is awesome.

For nearly 25 years, my dad was the most widely-read syndicated medical columnist in America. He received over 2,000 letters every week from men, women, and teenagers from across the country and around the world asking for advice.

I feel the same way any time anyone complains about someone else's life being against THEIR religion. Hey, if your God doesn't like gay people, don't be gay. That's the end of your religious freedom. Full stop.

it's totally insane. Like on a purely secular level, I can't imagine caring about someone else's orgasm that much. On a religious level, god condemns everything from shellfish, to masturbating, to interest loans, etc. when Jesus was all "he without son cast the first stone" he was practically clowning his old man for…

My favorite is "It's not natural." Aside from the dozens of species that regularly engage in homosexual behavior, I like to point out that neither are polyester, computers or most of the shit in processed food.

These people disowning children based on their sexuality on the idea God does not like it are just damning themselves to hell.

Here is what I don't understand:

Hmmm..... which brings it back to what it is — an assault - similar to that of a rapist in that it's not about the sex, it's about the power.

I know exactly where you're at; similar situation where I had to use my teeth. When I was recommended therapy by the lawyers I was so irate that this fucker was potentially going to get off (he didn't, #bestjudgeever) while I was asked to consider paying for therapy for my anger that I flipped out on them about how I…

Good god. I'm glad you survived, and that you gave the bastard what he deserved. Best wishes to you for easier days.

I am constantly appalled at how easily I am cowed by men shouting things at me or harassing me. It's a scary thing. Don't blame yourself. It just fucking sucks. We do what we can about it, but don't ask more of yourself than you can do. That time you couldn't confront him; no big deal. It's not your job to…

I love you! You're my hero!

same thing was happening where I grew up, in Eastern Europe. We're talking six-year-olds, we're talking eight-year-olds. When I was a kid that age, boys on the playground were trying to shove wooden sticks into the girls' buttocks. We were completely unsupervised, which is something that I often think about when…

Seriously, my bf has been groped and had his butt pinched by women and even he says it is far worse if it happens to a woman because the threat of violence is always a possibility. He can humiliate the woman and the worse he'll get is slapped, a woman can get killed for humiliating or retaliating against an unstable…

I think to some people it's not about "having the right". It's just about "who is going to stop me?".

I've had guys swing for me (and miss thankfully) after I've rejected their groping/verbal advances. Sadly this reaction is all too common and it is the beast that lies just behind all of those 'compliments' that women receive all day, it frustrates me to no end the way women are told we are overreacting (always by…

I'm in complete admiration of her bravery. This assault is what we fear when women make the decision to stand up against street harassment.

The more I think about this the angrier I get. What makes a guy think he has the right to (a) grope a woman who is not with him, and (b) beat her for refusing to be groped by him? As a woman and a mother, I have to question where parenting, schooling, individual responsibility, and society went wrong here.

Being a woman is often lose-lose.

Heal quickly, Ms. Brandon. I'm sorry you had to be non-sexually assaulted for the world to take notice.
May the shitstain who sexually assaulted you be found, charged and prosecuted on as many charges as can be laid.

What is wrong with people who think that they are entitled to touch another? What is wrong with men,…