Agreed. I was in high school when I swore to myself that I would send my future daughters to same sex schools. The sexual harassment from adolescent boys was horrible and nobody did anything about it.

I think ias87 is saying a boy would have gotten away with it.

You are right - lots of schools don’t do shit. Including the one in this story. They didn’t punish the girl - the boy’s parent called the police - probably because the school wouldn’t do shit.

In middle school, one of the little boys used to crawl under desks and grab girls crotches so often that we all TOOK OFF ONE SHOE and held it between our legs when at our desks.

My reaction would be the same: the pincher should be suspended. This girl might be 12, but she is old enough to understand what she did was wrong and she deserves consequences. I think the outrage in this story is the arrest and assault charge. Unless a child (of either gender) has a history of inappropriate touching,…

This is a case of the punishment not fitting the crime, regardless of the genders of the pincher, and pinchee . The goal should be that everyone learns the behaviour was inappropriate, and that the pincher doesn’t do it again. Bonus points if the pinch person learns its ok to stand up for themselves. What the hell is…

There were countless people right here in the Jezebel comments section that said this woman was a liar as it was impossible for this to have happened, either due to his profession or due to the openness of the E.R.

I love this woman.

I just wanted to share my point of view here on a related subject. Since people are always commenting on how the focus is on protecting the boys’ future. I think there are a lot of shades of grey on this one.

Bow down to the Bee! Oh, and if you live in Georgia, please vote State Senator Renee Unterman out of office. I will be eternally grateful.

Samantha Bee is just so fucking amazing and everything we need in in late night/on tv/IN GENERAL. I got the chance to watch the show as it taped last night and man, this lady is ON FIRE. She’s talking about all the stuff I hear from girlfriends, mom, aunts, etc. are always saying and don’t really get to hear on TV.…

What is just as unfortunate is that you have medical examiners highlighting that they are not getting the resources they need to do the job. LA County just had their own coroner quit, leaving something like 181 bodies awaiting exam. Presumably, he wasn’t goofing off, but it is simply the workload was too much for the…

It’s not about not doing any work to investigate and prosecute, it’s about what evidence is useful. Law enforcement aren’t going to test a kit if the perp says it’s consensual UNLESS there is another way to prove it wasn’t along with the kit. Unfortunately they usually have to use other tactics at that point. So,…

Most rapes are indeed committed by someone the victim “knows” — but that doesn’t mean it’s someone they are in an ongoing long-term relationship with, it just means they aren’t complete strangers jumping out of the bushes. Most rapes are also committed by someone who will rape more than one woman. So not doing any…

Her show is so funny, why was the advertising when it came out so BAD? Oh yeah PATRIARCHY

I know it varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but all of the law enforcement that I work with picks and chooses which ones get tested. As far as I know that’s how it is all over my state. Now they won’t test Jane Doe kits until a report is made. So if someone chooses an anonymous kit, then law enforcement doesn’t…

But when they’re not testing kits, it’s all the kits . Sure when the assailant is known they could wait until they think there’s enough other evidence to proceed since the kit itself won’t prove anything but those aren’t the only kits on hold. Those from stranger rapists, incest , incapacitated victims are also going…

First of all, I’m all for testing all the rape kits. If we dedicate enough resources to testing them, it’s possible to do. Very expensive to do, but so is everything else we spend government money on so that’s no excuse.

If someone was inclined to skirt the laws and torrent, such person could go to thepiratebay.se and type in “Great British Bake Off S06E01" and get a 720p copy of each episode with subtitles, and couldthen increment to S06E02 and so forth for each remaining episode, should such person be inclined to do so.

Oy, she is not a victim of slavery. She is a victim of a patriarchal arrangement; she is a victim of capitalism, which values ownership and propriety over labor. She is not anyone’s legal property, to be bought and sold, in the same manner as slaves. She receives remuneration for her labor, and was given the right to…