Those are legal standards, and I don’t think they work at all when applied to daily life. If your friend dumped his girlfriend for cheating or stopped hanging out with a buddy because he never paid his part of the bar tab, would you believe your friend or would you wait for some sort of adjudication?

People who accuse some of assaulting them have just as much right to be believed as someone who says their car was stolen - a crime with a higher false reporting rate. A woman who does so is going to be portrayed as a lying, scheming slut (maybe not on Jezebel, but most places). There is an almost negligible chance of…

Since she was raped while she was sleeping is kind of hard to speak.

Usually women do not gain anything when they accuse a man of rape so I tend to believe the victim.

Legitimate question: is there any room for the presumption of innocence and due process in the court of public opinion? Like, how did you decide who you would believe in this case? I read the same story and my conclusion was: IDK what happened because I wasn’t there.

Someone should tell this person that just because one of the persons involved in the sex act thought it was consensual is not enough.

Hopkins identifies as bisexual and of non-binary gender, but damn if ze doesn’t look like a cosplaying straight dude to me, yeah.

I’m a little confused. They’re a queer band called “Power Bottom”, but the lead singer is a straight male who may have sexually assaulted a straight woman?

The play is about a dinner party at the home of college professors. There wouldn’t be a lynching, just a lot of well-meaning, microagressive liberal conversation.

You can’t do this!! You can’t have a black actor playing a white man in a beloved play. Jesus people. That would be liking making a woman and a black man as the lead in a Star Wars film and expecting it to be successful. That’s crazy talk.

“only a person with a child’s view of the world thinks otherwise.”

Luke turned to the dark side AND is the secret hand behind Kylo Ren. Luke was his teacher, and somebody turned the little bastard.

...But this time, EVERYBODY GETS THEIR HAND CUT OFF!!!! AND EVERYBODY IS EVERYBODY ELSE’S FATHER!!! So it’s bigger.

More alarming - Luke has become a Grey Jedi and now understands that neither the Sith or the Jedi have it right.

Ray’s parents always struck me as misdirection. Something the audience is meant to fixate on in order to sneak a bigger surprise past our conscious radar. For example when the alien says that she’s seen Finn’s eyes before seems like a really big deal, but it’s immediately overshadowed by Rey finding Luke’s lightsaber.

This. The “Rey’s parents” thing is way over-played. How could it be that big of a deal unless it turns out to be Leia or something? Even then, it’s just more of what makes SW a space opera. It’s also been rumored for a long time that Luke is wrestling with the dark side and went into seclusion to save the galaxy from…

“The First Order sends their regards.” as Luke lightsabers Finn while Rey screams, before she decapitates Phasma and gets dropped by a barrage of blaster fire.

I think, given Hamill’s comment about being fundamentally opposed to the direction Luke takes in this - you could well be correct.

Luke turned to the dark side.

Tattooine is actually Earth in the far, far future. They take a quick trip back there and find the Statue of Liberty half buried in the sand.