This honestly sounds like the fever dream of the MRA world, and I’d be curious to know what percentage of the activity actually IS those guys LARP-ing as the kind of evil shrew bitch they imagine they’re “up against”.

I was once a young man in high school with college aspirations.

100% agree. It’s not a blanket age, it’s the individual. Ben Platt looks like a 37 year old youth group pastor who plays acoustic songs about how alcoholism destroys family life.

I need the narrative around Platt’s casting to shift from “Is 27 too old to play a teenager?” to “You can’t play a teenager when you look like what would happen if Albert Brooks fucked one of Phil Spector’s wigs.”

It’s not that he’s 27, it that he looks old as fuck. Kaitlyn Denver’s 24, and she’s positively baby-faced next to him. How anyone thought that doing... that to his hair would be a good idea is beyond me.

I liked the show when it first aired, but it does not age well.

I figure it’s because he’s Ugly Hot™ with a deep voice and seems nice enough.

I had a knock on the door the other day; Red Cross looking for donations. But they didn’t want cash-in-hand. “Sign up & donate monthly” they demand. I told the guy I’m more than happy to make a one-off donation (& have done so several times in the past; Red Cross are a worthy charity) but I won’t sign up. They weren’t…

That’s not (just) a tiara, it’s a parure.

I would kill for someone to throw me a party, even a low-key one. My mom was fantastic at celebrating my sister and me and after trying to adopt for years, I became a mother and my mom died three months before Mother’s Day. My narcissistic MIL pranced around being the new grandmother and shut me out of the entire day.…

I can’t speak for her, but I can speak for myself. I was invited, at 18, to APPLY to be part of a similar event in the Southern city I’m from. I tore up the invitation because I knew all about it and wanted no part of it because of the racism, because of the elitism and because of the general stupidity of it. And I…

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that someone who was crowned “most fuckable of her barely legal peers” by a bunch of old men was probably not thinking hard about any of the implications involved. 

If someone orchestrated me an elaborate birthday party, it would be all over the socials for sure.

I really wish these powerful women felt they could name their rapist and I dunno maybe help other women.

The absolute worst homophobic abuse I suffered in school was from someone who came out 4 years later (and then somehow expected us to be pals). You'd hope that holding it in would make people empathetic, but it doesn't always work that way.

If someone inflicted horrific abuse and you reported it, whatever happens after that isn’t your responsibility. 

You’ll be ignored, but I would still advise writing it all down in a letter, getting a lawyer to proof your letter to avoid legal comeback, and sending it to the schoolboard through that layer’s legal service. It won’t get them fired, but it will make it easier for them to be dismissed or prosecuted if they do it…

I’m someone who has gone to a school district over a similar issue with a former bully, and I wholeheartedly disagree with all of this advice except the volunteering bit.

Diversity just for diversity's sake just to fill a quota is so pathetic, this project should've been killed after Kim Cattrall, it's fine when some shows, Mad Men it's a good example of this, deliberately don't have diversity because it was to showcase the thinking of the 1960s, but this is just like when they got…

Man fuck everything about this story. Grown, actually adult men from the party that rails against sex work, blocks welfare safety nets for teenagers, free tuition, student loan forgiveness, axes housing for displaced youth etc; battered “tuition” for sex with a 17-18 year old girl. Yet she’s the one who endangered…