Or here, where you pretend to know things.

this one too, where you show your lack of experience with trauma victims and the effect of adrenaline on behavior

and this statement, which also indicates a fundamental lack of trauma training or experience working with victims of trauma (includes rape, domestic violence, kidnapping, and even *gasp* people who have witnessed mass murder, been tortured, or experienced combat). You actually don't understand trauma. Don't say that…

Like this statement, where you prove that you would be terrible working with trauma victims. Just to review.

It's pretty clear that you literally understand none of those things. Seriously. None of them. I am a professional that works in the field and absolutely none of your responses or reasoning indicates a base level of understanding in current research. The comment that you made there is actually mildly hilarious in view…

You aren't "gathering the facts" of anything is where I am going. Looking at all credible research indicates that when someone reports rape, you believe them. Presuming innocence is for the justice system. As for words in your mouth, "you are likewise assuming that a person raped them and is guilty of that crime" is…

This is officially the best reply here. Thank you.

if you are on a jury

Which is not supported by any other research in the history of time. The thing about real research is that it is repeatable. That 'study' had no methodology worth mentioning, BTW. Question: How much research methodology have you studied? That isn't being smarmy, it is a question. If you cannot read a methodology…

Freeze is the immediate reaction, douchnozzle. That is the adrenal response forcing your body to shut down to survive. It happens frequently in cases of sexual assault because victims are denied their bodily autonomy and humanity to such a severe degree that it is hard to process where danger is. Following that…

She said she was raped = crime to investigate. You aren't on a tv show. You aren't the jury. You are no one except a person that, when someone says they were attacked, says that no crime took place. Just because you dress up ignorance in nice clothes doesn't make it logic.

Guess who isn't a jury? This thread. I can choose to believe her by default because I follow large numbers. I can do that and it is logical. If I were a juror, I wouldn't be allowed. There is a pretty big difference.

Basic understanding of common huma trauma reactions before being an asshat doesn't perpetuate rape culture, is what I think you meant. Being an asshat does, at times. Like this time. With this reasoning you are displaying.

There are so many things wrong here. Not with the story, with your comment. What completely oblivious world do you live in, exactly? Seriously, what in the everloving fu** is going on in this comment thread? Have you read any research on violent crime? Have you worked with victims of violent crime? Have you studied…

Imagining that acknowledging human behavioral complexity and refusing to blame the victim of a violent crime to that complexity is the same as conviction is absurd. I'll just leave this here. http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/zunguzun…

When we paint rape to look like a stranger in the bushes that rapes women at knifepoint, we tell everyone else that unwilling sexual contact that doesn't "meet that standard" is not rape. Yes, women and men are raped using threats and violence, but women and men are also raped using confusion and playing off of human…

Reading that last reply after publishing made me realize that it was very angrily worded. I apologize for taking the low road, tone wise. I stand by the points I tried to make but apologize for the way that I made them. I hope that you can read them in the spirit they were intended rather that the way I wrote them and…

Learn how words work. The statement that "the regretted sex narrative doesn't hold water" is based on actual large numbers where your fast and loose use of the word "often" is not supported by large numbers. Women actually often don't report to the police. Police departments often are known for their dismissal or…

Okay, from the other comment here I am assuming that there is a ban on sororities having alcohol at their parties (?). Even if we grant that, his statements are still head slappingly out of touch. If we followed HIS logical argument (and ignore data telling us that women that don't drink get assaulted and that one…

Side Note: Creepy CVS Worker taught me a valuable life lesson that I still practice - I never use my address/phone number, I use the same childhood address and phone number for all bonus cards and never put my real one, a practice I instituted on the spot on that day long ago.