I watched the first episode, never got into it, never watched any of the rest.

If you enjoyed voting for Obama and have even remotely approved of his administration, then you should feel the same way about voting for Clinton.

You know, I might buy that he might not have done this if he were sober. But if you commit a crime while drunk, it’s still a crime. If he’d gotten into his car and killed this woman, no one would be asking for leniency. No one would be saying, “He’s a good guy, he was just affected by the alcohol.” No, shit, Leslie.…

Well, I mean. If she hadn’t said all the horrible things in her first letter that she’s now pretending she didn’t say, there wouldn’t have been this backlash.

I believe that Brock’s character was seriously affected by the alcohol he consumed, and I felt that the court needed to consider this issue during their sentencing

I was thinking about them earlier today. One of them was so traumatized by what he witnessed that he was weeping too much to give his statement. And yet, the judge is more concerned with the rapist’s future trauma than he is by THE VICTIM’S trauma or the witnesses’ trauma, or her friends and family . . . why is he the…

The victim saying that it breaks her heart to see her sister so distraught and guilty was heartwrenching. Her sister blames herself for not finding her in time to prevent the rape. They went to that party together and her sister carries a lot of guilt.

My brother stopped a rape in progress in Chicago in the 90s. He heard the victim crying and he stopped the bastard who’d attacked her. Punched the guy out and waited until the cops showed up. Later he testified at the trial. He barely talked about it but it really, really affected him. He wanted to kill that guy. It…

1000 words later... “I was taught that if I ever drink alcohol and get raped, it will be my fault and no one else’s, and I have never once thought to question the validity of that logic, so when my friend chose to rape an unconscious woman who had been drinking, I parroted back the same inane bullshit I had been force…

I have a friend who stopped a sexual assault, and he says it’s a difficult thing to for him to deal with (though far less difficult than for the actual victim, of course). While he knows he did the right thing and did the best he could, he just wishes so badly that he could have entered the room just a few minutes…

In the dark. As they rode by. They see the activity behind the dumpster. Something seems wrong about it to them. They turn back to investigate. They intervene. They call for help. They hold the perpetrator until the authorities arrive. They provide eyewitness testimony. They don’t seek the limelight, in fact they shun…

She really should just stop.

I feel so strongly for these men. In her letter she writes that one of them was so overcome with tears that he could hardly speak after he found her. It’s clear that they experienced a lot of heartache during this process themselves.

Why are we assuming the woman is the victim? Because she was unconscious. She was completely passive. He on the other hand, was the active party in the assault. No matter how drunk he was, he still chose to assault her. He was spotted by eyewitnesses assaulting her, and when he was confronted by them, he had enough…

Consent is not a tricky concept. If your partner is wasted (especially one that you just meet)- you don’t take advantage. Period. Being drunk lowers your inhibitions- it doesn’t magically erase what you should know as right or wrong.

That anybody knows of. She still had to take to anti HIV regiment. Also, read the rest of the comment thread before playing Know It All.

Yes! The whole case involving Turner’s rape of this young woman and the letters could (it seems) fill out at least a semester’s worth of just fucking LIFE lessons, including everything about rape myths and rape culture. Having said that, I don’t even understand why any of this is so difficult for Brock Turner or those…

you can sit down on that “only”

I feel like this plus his father's letter should be used as textbook examples of rape culture and how it persists.

What the hell is wrong with every person in convicted rapist, Brock Turner’s life?