Democracy Now has a heartwarming story about how this judge sentenced a domestic abuser who almost killed his wife in the incident to a weekend in jail, AFTER ENSURING IT WOULDN’T INTERFERE WITH HIS MONDAY WORK SCHEDULE. http://m.democracynow.org/web_exclusives…

Right?! What the fuck? How can someone going to a party a year after a gang rape be used against them? So, she wasn’t destroyed enough to stop attempting to have a normal life so fuck her and her case? This asshole.

Persky made a controversial evidentiary ruling which allowed the jury to view seven photographs of the alleged victim “partying about a year or so after the alleged gang rape. In the photos, she is scantily clad, wearing a garter belt and what appear to be fishnet stockings.”

Though the De Anza case didn’t go “viral,” it speaks, perhaps, to the contradictions of a judge who campaigned as tough on sexual predators and a vocal advocate of victims.

By this logic, Brock Turner should have just kept going to Stanford until he was convicted. Universities need processes to remove people who violate their policies.

Seriously. It’s actually extremely common in relationships where a person knows their abuser. Its called normalizing, its been studied over and over again, its instinctual and normal reaction, and when are we going to accept this as a fact?

“it defies logic and common sense that a woman would seek to re-connect and get back into bed with a man who she says forced her to have unwanted sex just hours earlier.”

This guy?

Nah; ScarJo could do it so much better.

Does anyone know a Pakistani that Damon could explain this to?

What? Was Emma Stone not available?

How does Matt Damon feel about this potential casting?

I want Rami Malek somehow involved in this.

Excuse me: here is my man your man!

I love that she is using her experience to comment and constructively criticize the rape culture we have all around us. She is SO bright and thoughtful, and I really am inspired by the way she took something so terrible in her life and is using it to help other people. I believe she can make a difference in the way…

I respect her so much. She has some very biting things to say about purity culture in general and it is wonderful.

Keep fucking rocking, Elizabeth Smart! That’s all I’ve got. I have no snark or cynicism to give. Just keep being an amazing human being.

The idea that anti-choice groups could directly reach women in abortion clinics or women who might be “abortion-minded,” is the brainchild of John Flynn, a Boston-based advertising executive. Flynn realized that geofencing could be used to target women and began selling the idea to anti-choice groups.

Ugh...

Starred because it deserves to be ungreyed. But I disagree that conservative policies are reasonable about money - see our military spending, the long term cost of cutting funding to health care, social safety nets, and education. It doesn't matter if you save a dime here if you lose a dollar later because your…