katiejmbaker
Katie J.M. Baker
katiejmbaker

I am serious about my offer. Send me your texts! I'll tell you what he/she/it is trying to tell you! Read more

No problem. I'm cool with you disliking my tone, but I don't think it's fair to say I'm "manipulating the facts" when I quote Russell himself at length! Read more

Yes, I said, but the original ordinance was repealed and replaced with a weaker one: Read more

I knoooow! But I thought most of our readers would get the joke, anyway :) Read more

Also, I've talked to a few students who went there and disagreed re: the extensive training. I'm not at all doubting you — obviously, you know way more than I do, having worked there — but do you think it's possible that you, as an administrator, might feel differently about the degree of the training than do the Read more

Yes, I agree, and said exactly that in my post. But I think it's also on the university to do more to protect its students. Read more

Thanks for all of this. I just wonder, then, why the university's statements would focus on the victims? Like, "Maybe people will read this and keep themselves a little safer and hopefully nobody else will have this happen to them" coming from the spokesperson and University President Paul Zingg saying university Read more

I never said they didn't have any. Clearly they are not doing enough to publicize the services they have — or they need to enact more — if this keeps happening. Read more

According to the New Yorker piece: "Saliva contains enzymes that destroy gonorrhea, so kissing and cunnilingus don’t spread it. But fellatio, which brings the tip of the urethra near the pharynx, carries a high risk of infecting one partner or the other." Read more

nooo I guess I shouldn't leave the journalism industry after all Read more

If you can't tell, I don't think emoticons have noses. I'm anti-emoticon nose. Read more

I've never heard of a group that affiliates itself with the MRM that deserves the benefit of the doubt. Feel free to prove me wrong! Read more

I don't disagree — I don't know a lot about the issue and would love to read more, as I'm sure others would, too. Want to post some links? Read more