Because professionalism matters a little bit. And because it’s a weirdly entitled, discomfiting thing to do. An office isn’t a pool, yoga studio or dojo.

For the hookworm, duh.

If someone in my office walked around with her naked feet for all to see, I would be the one PLACING the tacks on the ground, not offering her luxurious slippers that she would likely not wear!!

Well I know women in country don’t have guns because according to every fucking country song, the only thing they wear “painted on jeans” and who can fit a gun in those pockets?

Maybe she just wants “fit to happen”.

Is TS going to become one of “those women” that develop British accents, etc?

“I want to wear his initial on a chain round my neck, chain round my neck / Not because he owns me, but ‘cause he really knows me”

Yep. Actively telling members of a religion that membership restricts them from some pretty fundamental legal rights is bordering on, if not outright, seditious. This is an incredibly dangerous cult and the extent to which they’ve been able to bully the government to get their way is incomprehensible. It would be…

If Leo is actually reflecting on whether his past behavior may have offended women, and is trying to change that, kudos. Not sure the methods mentioned above will work or just push him further into Howard Hughes territory.

 If there’s a chance that Scientology could be a casualty of the mass outing of sex offenders, I am even more on board than I was before. Not much more sex offendery than an actual cult.

If you haven’t yet, I highly recommend you go watch Louis Theroux’s Scientology Movie. It’s illuminating in a way that hasn’t really been captured outside of Remini’s series.

I’ve read a lot of horrifying details about scientology, but this is especially disgusting.

I’m a straight man who’s been groped by men in a bar and I didn’t have PTSD over it. But my reaction isn’t the point, and your reaction isn’t the point. It’s Montana’s story, and if he says it was traumatizing, it was.

And other times they need to grow a brain and shut the fuck up. Guess which time this is? (Hint: you should really STFU)

I think the outrage in this comment section is limited to boys, because...and I know this is gonna sound crazy...this story is about a boy being assaulted.

I started typing a couple of times and gave up, but thank you for putting this into words.

I started typing a couple of times and gave up, but thank you for putting this into words.

Honestly I think the whole claim is silly. I’ve been groped in gay bars by men a lot less appealing than Kevin Spacey and it wasn’t hard to get over. If it’s continued and prolonged abuse then that’s one thing, but a one-off dick grabbing shouldn’t be a big deal for most gay men.

I think part of the problem is that people constantly misuse the more well-known term PTSD when what they really mean is PTS - Post Traumatic Stress - or more accurately classified: Acute Stress Reaction (ASR, which can develop into PTSD if left untreated).

“Being assaulted by a man who later acknowledged being gay confused me so much about my own sexuality because I connected my sexuality to being abused. It took years to rework that my sexuality was not borne out of pain.”