"should have been wary when he compared his work to GG Allin's."

"It can be room temperature. Your hand kind of warms it up."

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If you love something, set it free!!

I like 'em. Does that make me a bad feminist?

I was just going to say, "I bet instead of all the 'well, she should have been more forceful, how was he supposed to know?' comments, we get 'what a bitch, she should have been nicer.' comments." But you beat me to it!

I for one do. Publicizing that it's a good thing for women to stand up for themselves, and that they don't have to be passive and accept all the sexual harassment that is thrown at them, is a good thing. It helps women who see it, empower them to also stand up for themselves.

My scifi inclination is telling me that those anti-vaccer's have allowed the polio virus to incubate and mutate in humans, such that the efficacy of the old vaccine is diminished.

But she isn't the sole witness. The article clearly states that her ex boyfriend has signed a plea deal and will testify. Or did you not bother to read the entire article?

Come back to us if you're raped and tell us how easy it is to recover since you seem to think that is the case. Especially when your homeless on top of that.

So this is like the one time a court actually cares about prosecuting a rape trial and this is how they go about it???

This is just wrong. The survivor's rights to autonomy outweigh harassment from an (often) deeply misogynistic, entitled and privileged state prosecutions system. Forcing women onto the stand, to relive sexual trauma in front of dispassionate and sceptical court audience, particularly through the adversarial cross…

I am a victim currently going through the court process. It is nightmarish and horrible. Flashbacks, panic attacks, the whole 9 yards. This has been nearly a 2 year process so far, could easily be another year or more. Every time I think about having to testify I feel like I'm going to throw up. But I will be there. I…

It will never, ever be right to put a woman who was raped and kidnapped in jail for something associated with her case. Never. Period. Feel free to argue circles around that all day and night long.

So SVU... I think there's been too much television watching and not enough victim support happening here.

First, locking up a victim is worse than a rapist going free. Not only is it cruel and needless punishment of an innocent person, it will even further deter people from coming forward in the future. Second who the fuck cares which is worse? As if we have to accept one or the other.

Might I remind you of Blackstone's formulation: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." While this was meant in regards to convicting an innocent person, my goodness it applies here too.

That is victim blaming. "she may be a meth addict! a whore! mental! so she is willing to take meth as payment for shutting up!"

This is much worse than a rapist going free.

That was the day he lost me. I will always cherish Hot!Alec from Beetlejuice but things will never be the same again.