Thank you for sharing. People don’t like to admit their own memories can be faulty because they seem so so real. It is like denying your own reality during a horrific time when you desperately want (and need) to cling to something stable for your own sanity.

I am so sorry for your experience and thank you for your honesty. We don't talk about this because it seems cruel to question victims. But the snapshots our brains take in a highly emotional moment can be off.

I was the victim of an attempted sexual assault (I was able to fight him off) and “remembered” completely the wrong thing (I think I thought that he had a du rag and he didn’t—or the other way around). I was shocked when I saw the security footage (and thank God there was security footage). Eyewitness memories are…

I don’t know what the answer to the question in the headline is, I’m far from equipped to even begin to offer an answer. She was an 18 year old victim of rape who, as far as I can tell, did not do anything malicious, but was essentially coached into making a false accusation. I understand why people want to hold her…

An 18 yr. old, White rape victim was asked to put faith in a system that ultimately failed. The system which is taught by white parents to obey in a very different way than black parents warn their children to be wary. Ms. Sebold’s trauma and blind faith put Mr. Broadwater’s life in jeopardy in so many ways from the…

The one that followed from yesterday was even more illuminating. How fucking out of touch and determined to burn all your bridges do you have to be to announce right now that people have to move to LA if they want to keep their jobs?

Eye witness IDs are notoriously unreliable and even worse when it’s someone of a different race.

I have no good resolution for this. But witness IDs are so often unreliable and even worse when they’re looking at someone of a different race than themselves.

Geez, dude, I know you’re doing the whole “hyperbole for comedic effect” thing, but overreact much? Talking about killing yourself just because you see a couple of teenagers interacting in a, let’s say, “cute” way onscreen is, uh, a bit much. It’s not for you, I get it. It doesn’t sound like it’s for me either. Maybe…

Most of the people I’ve known who used drugs during pregnancy also had a host of other complications going on (homelessness, food insecurity, abuse, etc) so it seems like it would be very hard to just be like “it’s the drugs”.

......rittenhouse murders people “in self defense” he is freed, named a hero. woman with documented genital scares from abuse is jailed.....intersectionality indeed...its the deemest of lights but if that asshole can get off then we MUST DEMAND the same for domestic violence victims

Not even mentioning the fact that its based on a brutal rape told from the perspective of the two men it affected and basically not giving a shit about the woman that was raped at all

Ever hear the expression: an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure?

I think Tucker Carlson at the end of the day understands that he’s not actually stigmatizing pedophilia—he’s stigmatizing talking about pedophilia. But he’s evil and a grifter and doesn’t give a shit about the impact of his words as long as he gets paid.

Actually this is not even a mental disorder. In the latest version 11 of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) a pedophilic disorder requires that “the individual must have acted on these thoughts, fantasies or urges or be markedly distressed by them.” Otherwise it is not a disorder.

... they don’t want to harm children. I think you missed the whole point of this research.

Unfortunately there are many stereotypes that are commonly associated with minor-attracted people. One aspect few people know about is that it is not simply a sexual desire, but actually includes an extensive emotional level, too. In reality it is similar to other sexual orientations in that these people do literally…

Often those that are attracted to children are victims of abuse. I read an account of a man that went through abuse as a child and never had a relationship as an adult because he was attracted to children and didn’t want to risk having his own kids. He was able to find a sympathetic psychologist and get help. I feel…

I mean, if you had theories on how to protect children from abuse, why would you keep them to yourself? You’re pro-child abuse?

We already have incredibly harsh sentencing for stuff like child pornography, but guess what, people still do it. It’s pretty clear that treatment for this condition before a person acts on it is a net good for society.