Care of my fellow Washingtonians.

I’m a manager and I stopped the “happy hours” about 3 years ago. One of my female employees came to me worried because she couldn’t join us because she took care of her elderly parents. She was (she left voluntarily a year ago) one of the best on my team. It really made me think about what those nights out were like…

It’s usually the “This isn’t the person I know” reaction. People don’t want to think they’ve been deceived. We want to believe we’re smart people who would recognize a sexual predator like this if he were in our midst. Realizing that you didn’t has to be very scary, and scared people often respond with denial. Much…

At the lowest point in their lives when they came to you for help in the throes of painful divorces and custody battles, you took advantage of them. You took advantage of their trust and faith in you by sexually abusing them.

My best friends in high school were all guys, and off the top of my head I know I shared a bed on occasion with at least three of them. It was a case of “oh, it’s late, it’s a long walk home, do you want to just crash here?” and it never occurred to me to worry and it shouldn’t have had to occur to this girl either.

This so many times. Where is there language of a sleepover? She went over for dinner, he got her drunk and WRONGLY took her inebriated state as passive consent. That is rape. Not something like rape, that is “RAPE RAPE” as Whoopi Goldberg awkwardly put it.

Using hypnosis on vulnerable women who have put you in a position of trust.

In her victim impact statement, one woman said, “He gets a 12-year sentence. I get a life sentence.”

I’ve slept over at guy’s apartments several times—even guys I was kind of dating, and had kissed before!—and wasn’t raped. This way of thinking is toxic to young men, because it’s tacit approval. “she came over and drank with you after dark, she should know she owes you an exchange in sexual currency.” Good men simply…

The ABA Journal reports he had more than 50 letters written on his behalf begging for leniency

Teen boys need this, and grown-ass advice columnists, apparently. If all the responsibility for understanding consent is on teen girls, nothing will change.

Yeah, women are just crazy for ever having the expectation that their consent will be respected!

If only there were a place for teen girls to go to read about the definition of consent.

Yeah, I spent many nights with boyfriends before I ever had sex. Sure, we cuddled or made out, but they knew where my boundaries were and respected them. I guess according to this I’m lucky I didn’t get raped multiple times for trusting someone I cared about?

For shame: talking about this constitutes feminism, which is ruining the institution of the family, dontcha know.

So basically...men are uncontrollable rapists who will use every opportunity to assault you and you should have known that you stupid, stupid girl. But also, don’t be so mean and think all men are rapists. Obviously, calling out a man’s deplorable behavior is just as bad as the behavior itself.

Eve has always been responsible for Adam’s sins.

The part that gets me is how many assumptions are going on here. “Well OF COURSE he tried to have sex with you - that’s what happens when you spend the night together!”

Why do we do this to women who come forward? Fucking bullshit man. And now we have a President elect who openly brags about sexual assualt. The impact is going to be exponential if it wasn’t alreadt. Brb going to jump off a cliff