I didn't say every one involves popular athletes, I said the social standing of the victim and the perpetrator heavily influences the public response. If you were to look at who gets away with rape and who is more likely to be charged and sent to jail, I'm sure there are obvious trends.

Why? Is there any logical way to reason such a thing? I honestly think considering rape 'the worst thing' is part of rape culture. It's founded in purity myths. That doesn't make the trauma felt by victims any less valid, of course.

I don't think so. There are notable (and well documented) differences between the benefit of the doubt given to someone we like and admire (or just find physically attractive) and everyone else. If he'd been a creep, socially awkward kid and raped the prom queen, we'd never have heard about it because it would have…

you think you're making much more sense than you are because you're mistaking your cynicism for cold rational discussion. If you sneak into someone's bunk and initiate sex and they say they don't want to have sex, you leave. If you continue sex anyway (which he would have had to have dive, if she told him to stop…

I have actually wondered this myself. I think there are lot of really common scenarios where the sex is both consensual and nonconsensual at different periods in the act.

Apparently it's a thing to not answer them in order to keep a person from being able to try again. You just leave them in Internet limbo.

'Treated like a lady'? Do you think this guy sends his dick to other dudes? How about 'treated like a normal human.' But don't worry, I can tell you aren't defending the dick pic but the 'there are greater issues!' bullshit is getting old. The Internet is big enough for us to complain about idiots who send dick pics…

You really think the women bitching about it are dating guys who do it? The truth is that some women are into it (a minority) and some—too many—pretend it's okay so as not to be called prudes or because the guy is all right otherwise.

It is 100% this. We need PSA's. I even made a flow chart on tumblr titled DOES SHE WANNA SEE UR DICK?: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE.

I've never been pregnant, this isn't even a maternal instinct issue. It's common sense.

Yeah I had to buy it in NYC a couple times. Imagine my delight (brief delight because damn if that pill doesn't make me feel like shit) to find it for 7 euros (less than 9.50 USD) in France.

This is the point everyone seems to be missing. At the end of the day you are paying for your own healthcare, not your boss.

Yeah, I don't really see the big deal about the cat. I'm pretty sure that in any given time in any country there is a cat perched on a street sign somewhere.

I have said a million times I don't think objectification is bad. Now you're conflating my views with other feminists because you have an ax to grind.

Well...obviously I disagree.

I don't think you know what hypocritical means.

All right well the brows, 'luminous' skin and even symmetry are most likely gifted to her digitally, but the rest is pretty typically west african. And I know striking and pretty are different. The 'striking' is a result (imo) of what we're usually exposed to, not her being particularly exceptional.

ugh I know (racist) white women will never stop with the whole 'a nigger did it' thing but every single time I read about it I'm so pissed off. It's just a violation. A black man who breaks every stereotype thrown at him and there he was, handcuffed and being escorted out of his home by the police, a gun trained on…

LOL do white people spend a lot of time whipping black people in 2014?

I have never argued against objectification as inherently problematic. It's not hypocrisy at all. You're the one arguing that some imaginary feminist thinks objectification is bad.