This video also demonstrates (for me, anyway) why affirmative consent is such a critical policy measure to adopt at colleges and universities. The burden of proof for proving consent in the case of something like this is incredibly high—and should be.

Even if the guy in the video initially consented to this horrific…

The “we don’t know the facts, so you can’t call it possible sexual assault” crowd over there make me want to create a head-sized desk imprint.

I can see your point, though he was on private property and they apparently had to use the world’s largest zoom lens to get the photos—kinda feels creepy for me, still. But you may well be right that he’s titillated, not ashamed. :p

Exactly how I feel. I won’t be seeking out these photos and still harbor guilt over seeing the photos from Lenny Kravitz’s wardrobe malfunction. If I think that it's a violation to see leaked photos of female celebs, it seems hard not to extend the same logic to Bieber, his asshole nature notwithstanding.

This is kind of like the time my INSANE (now ex-)friend texted me within two hours of the end of her wedding asking where my card was (I had forgotten to bring it). I sent it to her two weeks later, and because she didn’t like my gift (I was in the depths of grad-school poverty at the time and had only scraped $35…

Well to be fair, it's actually a common request, from your local parish priest all the way up to the pope. I've always liked it; it's a reminder that they're people, too.

All kidding aside, yes, plus I'm troubled by the new tiered citizenship law. As someone who emigrated Canada as a three-year-old, I assume it could affect my husband even though he currently claims no other citizenship.

My husband’s Canadian, and his friends were caught drinking in a Toronto park once. The cops just firmly but kindly told them to go home and didn’t even cite them.

I used to threaten to move to Canada when elections would go sour, but now that I'm married to a Torontian I figure it's actually a viable back-up plan :D

omg I have a childhood friend who became a consultant and when I deleted myself from her group and event she PRIVATE MESSAGED ME TO ENCOURAGE ME TO TRY THEM AND ADDED ME BACK IN.

Me too me too me too. All that “finding home” stuff really speaks to a confused, slightly homesick 19 year old.

Ha! Well I don’t know about you, but it also came out in the haze of adolescent-adulthood for me (I was in my first year of college). Everything felt a lot more profound at that age than it does now on a rewatch....

I loved it when it first came out and thought it was The Greatest. Now that I’m older and wiser I can take a necessary critical eye to it, but for me Joanna’s potato chip metaphor holds true. Something likeable still endures in it for me (I know, I’m sorry), and it can still be entertaining.

This may top “Bees are good!” for me, but I’m not sure. That was so golden.

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Not in Catholicism, actually—they’d have to truly be sorry and do good works in penance for their sins. If they don’t have time to get it all worked out before death, that’s what purgatory is for. The whole “I believe and so therefore I am saved” thing is more a feature of Protestant denominations, particularly the…

This.

Was this a Protestant pastor (perhaps of the Born-Again persuasion)? Because one of the primary reasons Luther broke from the Catholic church was the primacy of faith for salvation, whereas the Catholic church thinks that faith and good works go hand in hand. (Thus, the idea that for full forgiveness in Catholicism…

That would be one of the primary theological differences between Catholicism and Protestantism, actually (well, besides differing opinions on whether or not the communion bread and wine becomes Jesus’s body and blood in church). Catholics believe in the importance of good works in conjunction with faith, and…

We printed them ourselves from Shutterfly after and mailed doubles to our guests. :)