A school gets on this list when someone alleges an assault, goes through the entire school investigation until the school itself concludes the case, then the accuser contacts the federal Dept. of Education to say "my case was mishandled" and files a formal title IX complaint.

I think it's important to note, every time this story comes back up, that this is a list of schools where someone has complained to the DoEd that their investigation was mishandled.

National guard help might not be a bad idea, if he's genuinely able to relieve the police department of duty. It's hard to imagine this thing calming down without SOMEONE taking over for them, and ironically, the National Guard could come in with a less-militarized force.

After all, the article Jez posted last night…

He was also never charged with anything, so there is no charge to throw out based on the lack of Miranda.

I'm a white male who lives elsewhere, and at the moment, this is the only thing on my Facebook feed. My feed is mostly white people, mostly on the coasts, and all they're talking about is how horrifying this is. A handful of fairly conservative people are hosting conversations saying the same.

Everyone has their own way of resolving differences, and they're not all recognizable as "fighting."

It's a branded thing. National Geographic paid Gawker to post this. They have National Geographic Explorer magazine, a National Geographic Explorers TV show, and if you enter one of their contests, they brand you an "explorer." This article is an ad.

As a single dad of two, just...thanks for this. Thanks for even noticing.

Thank you for telling the story, and I'm so sorry.

Assuming she grows up, that is. Justin and Caleb now have plenty of incentive to make sure that doesn't happen.

Freshman year of college, I was placed into housing meant for upperclassmen. It seemed like a good deal at first - apartments of four guys, with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a common room. And the guy who I shared a bedroom with has been a lifelong friend.

There have to be fourth amendment issues with forcing someone to take a drug when they haven't been declared mentally unfit for trial, right?

SO is bi, and our taste in women just has *nothing* in common, which makes it fun.

Precisely. The "men's rights" movement is so infuriating to most of us men because it sounds perfectly plausible at first (who could object to everyone having rights?) but quickly devolves into angry misogyny, which is so completely beside the point.

"why is it that when women or minorities do their own thing, the onus is on us to be inclusive, but not the other way around?"

Thank you, and that response makes a lot of sense to me.

"I think what a lot of people are reacting to is yet another white man is complaining that some vehicle, that millions of people pay attention to, doesn't include his demographic."

Is it fair to hold him responsible for the decisions of other straight, white, cis men? I don't mean the question to sound like I'm arguing with you. It's honestly one of the points I struggle with most, as a dad, when I try to engage with academic feminism. It sounds like you're saying that he has failed to…

There's an old Westerosi legend, a children's tale sort of, about a hero who once saved the world from the Others and who is prophecied return when he's needed. Readers have various theories about who it is. Melissandre believes it's Stannis. Rhaegar (Dany's older brother who died before she was born) believed it…

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