It's a mixture of curiosity and desensitization.

Why do pro-gun people always assume they have the only gun in a situation like this?

Not wearing underwear means you definitely want to get raped, whereas wearing underwear means you only probably want to get raped.

So wearing underwear is some kind of magical rape barrier or something?

So, Mr. Smith, before you were stabbed were you wearing a shirt? When the knife pierced your chest did you specifically tell your attacker to stop? When he stabbed you the second time did you bother to say "No" in a firm clear voice? When you walked around being a jerk earlier in the day, weren't you pretty much…

In case you didn't know: this young midshipman didn't even want to press charges. She knew she'd been raped and figured she could skip the part where she'd be ritually burned at the stake and blamed for her rape in front of her peers while simultaneously having her career ruined. She wasn't even allowed agency in the…

Using proper channels to give her and her family the chance to properly respond to a story that deeply involves them? How could you??!?

“Yeah, they’re privileged. But they’ve earned it.”

I contacted her and her family through her lawyer. Pretty par for the course!

Destroyed? I'm sorry, did roving bands of angry feminists come through and burn Steubenville to the ground, salting the earth on the way out? Nope! Two boys were put on trial, convicted, and sentenced. Adults were told to take responsibility for their role in what happened. As for Christmas day death threats, that is…

I am an American soldier, and I really do not agree with the sentiment of being upset with this. It just doesn't bother me. I agree with Sol on this one. Twelve years ago something terrible happened to the American people. This has nothing to do with China or its inhabitants. Why, after more than a decade, would they…

How dare you hold a pirate themed party after all those people (in olden and modern times) died due to pirates?

So? 100,000 civilians died in Iraq war, do we have a special day to remember those guys? Nope.

Innocent people died in hundreds of other significant events, yet we don't single out those days.

China wasn't the one attacked, so why should they be sensitive about it?

Some people "celebrate" by going to the air and space museum and spitting on that plane. But you make a valid point.

Yeah, and on the 6th and 9th of August no one in the US is allowed to have fun because that's when the atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I was promised gut-clearing puking.

You moron. In the "empire business" scene Walt TELLS Jessie that he willingly sold his shares in grey matter. In the scene where Gretchin confronts him she recalls him losing his temper and storming out in a pride fuelled hissy fit. Put two and two together already.