It’s dodgy to me how much to blame this lady. I know all the things benefit white woman especially against black men, but rape really fucks you up and your relationship to sensations and memory. Compound that with a stranger rape and well damn...everything gets that much more complicated. Especially over months…

To examine her discomfort, would mean having to rehash and relive her rape and the ordeal that followed.

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”.

This is a great article on the mRNA vaccines from USA Today, but essentially they’re 20 years in the making: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/21/fact-check-covid-19-vaccine-nearly-20-years-making/3873247001/

None of these facts relied on an image, why did they need to be presented as a slide show when a list would have been fine? I know the slideshows get a lot of hate around here, but examples like this are particularly bad.
As a side note, I like to use a screen reader to read aloud content. Breaking posts into multiple…

......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

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.

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…

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.