victim shaming? oh please, get over yourself.

where was all this people love when It happened to me, to my best friend in school, who was raped by a teacher?

Thank you.

When I was gang raped at age 16 by some Hell's Angel's prospects who beat me and threatened to kill me, I missed the attention and love part. My mother refused to even hear about it. One of my friends inquired, quite seriously, if I'd been asking for it. It was 1972, and a different world in terms of how…

I had similar thoughts. Steubenville, anyone? The young victim being vilified and bullied by peers while the media and community wring their hands that the lives of the young rapists have been forever ruined? The college woman who is raped by a fellow student and when she seeks help from the campus police, they…

That's not true. She starts out talking about victims in general—saying that's what being a victim IS and SHE didn't like that. Claiming that victims are a certain negative way is certainly offensive to anyone who has ever had a horrible thing happen to them and yet received no support and found no "comfort."

I actually found very little open love and support or attention after my assault in college. My suite-mates had no idea how to help me. I think they felt guilty about having fun and laughing around me, so they pretty much left me alone. It was brutal.

Thanks, I too, find her statement incrediby problematic, troubling and harmful but I've come to accept that Jezebel and its commenters are very much into this kind of thing.

Her narrative is her narrative. It doesn't have to be most people's narrative.

The following statement is so NOT THE EXPERIENCE OF MOST WOMEN, GIRLS, BOYS, MEN, PRISONERS, SLAVES and the DEAD around the world that I cannot even begin to address how self absorbed, uninformed and deeply offensive her statement is.

Ermmm...there are videos from all over Western Europe and the US that show people being beaten/harrassed and no one stepping in to help. I walked out of a store in a major US city once and saw a woman and her son being beaten by the woman's partner. In a major European city I watched on the news as people spat at a…

I'm with you to a point, then I watch the videos of LGBT people getting beaten on the street with no one stopping to help, some laughing, some dispassionately viewing the whole thing. Besides, ridiculing these Olympics, has more to do with Putin than the people of Russia. It's like he's filming his own version of "The…

Thank you. This isn't the fault of the Russian people.

The last Russian Olympic mascot was SOOOO cute!!! Presenting...Misha!! My grandfather was at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and brought some wood engravings of Misha back. (This is just a picture of Misha below, not the engravings).

I should follow up and say that we shouldn't be knocking her at all even if she is in a relationship with Putin. That would be very un-Jezebel-like.

I could never work out with my hair down. Gross.

Ah, man, you need to find another gym! I take Zumba with a great group. It has all types—only a couple of super-young, super-hot girls. The rest are just your full-range of average, and ages ranging from 16-65+. I always look like a fool, and my thighs have soooo much jiggle, but it makes me feel great. I never go…

Most of those stretches (?) are okay but a few of the yoga inspired ones will bring someone to great discomfort if they do too much erroneous movement. Seriously, stuff like this is how people end up hurting themselves while doing yoga.

Well, right on the homepage of her website she writes about how she looked to African and African-inspired American dance styles because she was actively seeking moves that would encourage people to move their hips more. So the answer to your question is...no.

I don't know about you folks, but this looks like a good time. I'd totally rock the shit out of this; poppin' n' lockin straight into downward dog?!?! amazing. Its 2 of my favorite things rolled into 1; yoga and booty dancing!!

He worried that its absence would impose a big and unwanted change to his identity.