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Apologies for the question, but could someone clarify what is meant by the emoticon? Specifically, 😬. I think that my lack of cognitive empathy frequently extends to emoticons, and I’m unsure as to the emotion that it is intended to convey.

I do wonder about the “right” to have children. Is that a right?

Do you think that 45 acts like a petulant child if someone forgets? Or if the same courtesies are extended to others?

I left the Academy shortly before my third year after I was assaulted aboard a ship and the school refused to investigate my allegations. I remember standing in front of one of the administrators pleading them to at least never send another woman to that ship. They wouldn’t even do that much.

Disregarding that not everyone has the option of running away from a job, I think that environments where this kind of behavior is pervasive are also ones that actively go out of their way to maintain it. Reporting results in greater harassment, threats, physical and sexual violence, and myriad other repercussions.

My experiences may be unique (or the result of being in male-dominated environments for the entirety of my life), but every example of hazing that I have witnessed or personally experienced always includes some sort of sexual assault.

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This appears to be the full episode, though I only scanned through it very quickly. Thank you again! I’ll take a look at this later tonight.

I’ve mentioned it in the past, but I attended a United States federal military academy. It’s amazing how much gets normalized in small group cultures. Sexual assault as a prank or a form of camaraderie is very common.

Thank you for the additional information! The article notes that he would have been able to exercise and that the physical appearance could have been minimized with clothes, but it definitely did not go into such detail.

I was just about the write this same thing. They see it as an erosion of their rights.

Eugenics within the United States (California in particular) was so prolific that members of the Nazi party asked for advice on how to run their own program in the 1930s.

I bet that there are some on the ACLU website. I was just scanning through there this morning looking for stats on women incarcerated for violent offenses, and I know that I saw some information about bail bonds and women broken down by race.

As a related aside, I really appreciate when writers write transcripts of video. I have difficulties understanding speech occasionally and prefer to read captions when they’re available. Your efforts make the news much more accessible to people.