Long term solutions do not work for the people suffering in the here and now, dude. The fact of the matter is that what we're looking at RIGHT NOW is vigilante justice. When was the last time you heard of a man being bullied into suicide because someone accused him of rape? Because victims are bullied into suicide all…

You've clearly never worked in the DA's office or as a judge's clerk. Trust my legal experience; the system does not work for rape victims. District attorneys will often not pursue a case with plenty of evidence because they know a judge is bad on rape cases, or because the rape isn't scandalous enough to overcome a…

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Why is it that so many people's conception of "fairness" is "I get all the protections you get, even if I don't need them"?

If your other comment from this afternoon weren't the straw on the camel's back which, in the face of your constantly insightful, well-spoken and overall excellent comments, made me follow you, THIS comment would be the straw on the camel's back which, in the face of your constantly etc, would have made me follow you.

Fuck Kinja. Fuck Kinja so much.

Okay. I could agree to that, with one reservation. If the case is NOT given its day in court- if evidence is not reviewed, if the DA refuses to file, if the judge throws it out, if the police investigator refuses to investigate - if, for any reason, it is thrown out without any regard given to the evidence, testimony…

Oh God, don't even joke. o_o

I don't know. How many?

In crimes like this? It's because even if he IS proved guilty, a huge chunk of the population is going to think she's a whore. And they're going to think that now, regardless of whether she even made the claim.

... And now I'm sad.

Nuh-uhhhh. I got here WAY earlier.

While I do accept the underlying logic of what you're saying, and in a perfect world, I'd agree with you, the fact of the matter is that the way women are kept from speaking out against their rapists, the shaming and mistrust that meets them, is a hell of a lot stronger than the ways men are kept from defending…

especially if it was false

Of the two of us, I'm the one who's already read them, so...

... Well, that's... That's kind of fucked up.

I have dismissed exactly one comment, and I'm not the one who goes around admitting to replying to posts I have not read, so maybe, just MAYBE, your responses are greyed BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT RELEVANT and someone else noticed it. I don't know how the fuck Kinja works. But considering you refused to read what I was…

Blame your computer problems on whatever you like. I told you which post I dismissed.

What makes you think I've done it more than once?

... Then why exactly did you continue to reply to them? Instead of letting them sit there?