THIS!!! The reason why the police can't arrest or prosecute? None of these girls say "No" because it's not like he asks in the first place, he just DOES. Although granted, once it starts, someone should maybe be empowered to say no and get the fuck out, but I'm sure shock prevents that from happening.

Anna's Taqueria.

It's really disheartening to read all these comments from people saying things like "her body type is still totally unobtainable to 95% of women!" and "even 'normal' people don't look like that!". Why do people act like serious fitness is some kind of freakish abnormality? I am a size 0, an Olympic weight lifter, and…

actually, your analogy is horrible. people don't usually want to stab someone else for no reason. stabbing someone is usually a crime of passion and/or outright craziness.

THANK YOU. A woman shouldn't have to learn karate to feel safe, but what the hell is wrong with encouraging women to learn a martial art?

"Part of rape culture is the myth that all women are weaker than all men and that the only thing protecting women from rape is the chivalry of men."

"Men" and "boys" in general do not need to take classes to learn that rape (or harassment for that matter) is wrong. We ALL know that. We also ALL know that no matter how "slutty" she dressed or how much she drank, does not make it right. That is not the issue. The issue is that SOME a-holes don't care. Should one or…

"10% talking about telling men not to rape, it's hardly wrong to point out that that is a terrible way to address it."

So to be clear. Your argument is that women should not learn self-defense because it's coddling men?

Yes, I see the imbalance. I grasp the concept. There are never going to be classes on how to not rape. That is a change that needs to come through on every level of society. Because we are already TELLING boys not to rape. I don't' think even a rapist would go "but I didn't know rape was bad". But we don't show them…

so if i get super drunk, pass out with my door wide open and get everything i own stolen its not my fault? we just need to raise awareness that stealing is a crime?

you have good points, but while waiting for the world to learn how to right itself, learning self defense is a good thing. i do agree it's sad that the onus is for you (not you personally) protecting yourself. i'm don't think less of anyone for not knowing self-defense, but in this world where evil exists anything…

Its because the OP would rather wish a perfect world into existence then deal with reality. Promoting the ability to protect one's self is good. Even if it isn't from sexual assault, knowing how to react to a mugging or a jumping or pretty much any violent attack is really useful.

Yeah, I don't understand why we can't learn to protect ourselves for the world we're in while ALSO working for the world we wish we were in.

why do people seem to think that learning self-defense and teaching men not to rape are mutually exclusive? no one is blaming the victim if she gets rape, anything she can do to protect herself is good. also no one is blaming rape victims for not knowing self defense. we can try to teach people not to murder or…

"Would it hurt if we all become black belts to defend against possible violent threats? No. But why should we have to?" Because we are living in the real world where "teaching men not to rape" sounds good, but is in reality just BULLSHIT!

90% of regular Jezebel and gawker commenters sound like assholes. And if they don't recognize you as a regular commenter, they will treat you like an asshole, because they see this anonymous commenting forum as a competition in trying to prove they're smarter or more correct than everyone else. The comment section is…

speaking as a woman (not sure that's relevant) I agree.

You're right, she probably doesn't care what either of us think. But this is a cheap gossip blog where people comment on cheap gossip articles like this one and post their personal opinions about things. And it appears that you feel personally offended by mine. Too bad. I'm not telling women not to "follow" her, or…