I don't agree with STDs, so keep your skanky ass away from my clean one.

Aaaand...hearted.

Whoa. Deep. I think you've gotten to the root of her problem.

Age of consent in France is 15, however:

And the girl not only wasn't his student, she was the one who got the publishing accolades.

That's an awful story, one I will definitely be sharing, while making the.grossest.means.possible of transmission for each retelling depending on the audience.

You can see my rants on this above, but I must say, everyone I know who is a vaccine-denier is German, and I don't live in Germany. So they are spreading their joy all over the place.

You said it. And it is, indeed, often the otherwise well-educated, do-gooder, reasonable-seeming parents (of which I am one, when I'm not losing my cool over stuff like this) who avoid vaccines. I live in a country with national health care, and several of my expat mommy friends reacted in horror when I took my kid in…

I guess this is the other side of the coin where we can rail against the power of Big Pharma over local government?

My dear grandmother, who made it to 100 years, remembered pre-vaccine life. When polio came around, schools were closed and children were kept home. Still, some poor sod always got it and was crippled for life, or died. Mumps? Close the schools, kids kept home, some poor sod always got it and was left deaf for life.

You might be an excellent candidate for adult vaccination against chicken pox. Normally I'm against vaccinating against relatively harmless but unpleasant diseases like CP, but as adult it is an entirely different matter. People have pox parties for little kids just so they can get it out of the way as young as…

You go, and just keep going -

That p-pine is totally copying my cob eating noises.

I am so sorry that you have gone through this, and continue to deal with it. This is just an awful story and my heart goes out to you - I know I would spend so much of my time angry about it I'm not sure I'd be properly functional.

And no one has called cops/social services because...?

Thanks for the clarification.

Yes, this is what I was thinking. I mean, women are 'valued' in patriarchal societies that keep them covered and uneducated as well, I just think they mean something different with 'valued' than I do. In my (admittedly underinformed) opinion, these societies do not value women as individuals with unique potential,…

I figured these shows (they are over here in Europe in various forms, as well) were aspirational marketing ploys to pump the real estate and home decorating sectors as well as provide cheap 'reality' programming. I never thought they were real people looking for real places - they are part of a vast plot to convince…

Do you have any examples? Because from what people are saying here, urban societies with more women (at least within the urban work area, not the countries as a whole) are not behaving this way (i.e. men granting more social concessions to women).

I had been wondering how the heavily patriarchal societies would handle their woman shortage when it came to educated, successful women - I mean, after all, theoretically as women become more scarce due to selective abortions and one-child policies, as well as more educated and successful in society and in the job…