I have to deal with this issue all the time. My child* is extremely handsome and I tell him this every day. But I sense he is becoming arrogant from the prideful expression on his face. And some say he is spoiled since I let him jump on the table all the time.

I tell my dog that she’s the prettiest lady in all the land every single day. But only because it’s true!

It seems that many of the trans cases that people get worried about re: possible abuse (bathroom use, rape by deception, etc.) would depend on someone claiming to be trans, identifying as trans, living as trans, only for the purpose of abusing cis people. I am sure there are trans people out there who are abusive, but…

Exactly. By earning a livable wage, services don’t have to put up with sexual harassment from customers in exchange for tips, and they don’t have to put up with sexual harassment from employers/managers in exchange for the shifts that make the most tips.

I’ve read a few articles that say eliminating the current US tipping service would also greatly reduce sexual harassment of service staff. For that reason alone, I would be on board.

I’m a lawyer as well. The focus of my practice is almost 100% family law so I deal with domestic abuse situations rather frequently on both sides. It is rare, in my experience, that situations are ever as black-and-white as they may appear although my read on this particular situation is that Hardy fits the profile…

Sure ... because based on this “hearing,” it’s clear that the victim would not be shamed, blamed, or harangued in court, and that Hardy would be punished appropriately.

Just as the First Amendment only says the GOVERNMENT can’t restrict your speech, so too the legal system. Just because a monstrous bastard found a money-loophole doesn’t mean that private citizens don’t have an ethical obligation to make up for that failing. If there was anything good in the NFL at all, they’d do that.

for a personal legal matter that he was found completely innocent of in the court of law

The problem becomes when your profession, and your stature as a result of said profession, have a direct impact on “personal legal issues.” As in, powerful football player with gobs of money pays off victim.

If paying a witness to fail to cooperate isn’t obstruction of justice, it fucking should be. And yes, you should absolutely face penalties even if an imperfect judicial system fails to.

I think it would be ok, if it were just the sweater. It’s more the sweater in the context of a world where every clean and tidy person happily announces ‘I’m like so OCD’.

Also John Stewart.

I went to Duquesne University (Catholic). Gun to my head I couldn’t tell you if something like this was slipped into my paperwork or not.

Yeah, I am not entirely surprised that rules like that exist. But that’s not on the same level as a purity pledge, imo. That only limits what students are supposedly allowed to do in University housing. That doesn’t really openly shame students into signing a purity pledge by describing their virginity as community…

You see, I interpreted this as being an introduction to the world of tech for those more predisposed to feminine interests. Hobbies related to make up and beauty don’t usually lead to an interest in programming. This type of activity can provide a link between the two. Once the skill is acquired (programming requires…

Remember kids: Black Lives Matter is a bunch of whiners who are looking for reasons to be offended. The real oppression is a lack of Christmas iconography on your coffee cups.

writing in caps doesn’t burn calories.

I have to admit that in the shell-shocked daze of my ex moving his new boyfriend into our condo just weeks after I moved out, I tracked down the guy my ex had just broken up with when we’d gotten together 15 years previously and sent him an apology (not a poem, thank god) for being the one who did that to him. It…

You’re the one making an absurd argument, for seemingly no reason other than to deflect from the underlying issue other people want to discuss. Why don’t you admit that you waded in here with no understanding of what a PTA is/does? To say that it’s not under the school’s control is just flat out incorrect