No, Turtle.

She's trying to tell us that she was the brain behind HorseEbooks all along.

There can be earnest questioning when the story being told is so far outside of common experience. People who are having sex with their best friend generally do not wordlessly and out of the blue just start punching and choking and committing forcible anal rape. People who have just been punched and choked and raped…

I don't know what you're talking about, because you do have to prove both if someone was murdered, and whether a person carried out said murder. Just look at George Zimmerman, murder or self defense was the question there. In rape cases it's sex or rape that is normally the question. As with murder, where the fact…

Yes, this. People think stranger rape is the most common, but it's actually the least. Date/acquaintance rape is far more pervasive, and emotionally traumatizing in a different way than stranger rape, because you have a level of trust with that person.

I read this here and it's my daily mantra now: "Blame is easier than empathy."

The problem with testimony is the human in the loop, we know from experimentation that eye witness testimony is basically useless.

Bullshit. There are plenty of people in prison based solely on the testimony of a cop or witness.

After the University of Virginia debacle, it's not a possibility to be dismissed out of hand, especially given some of the details here. I guess I should come out and say I don't believe this particular person. Not one single reason makes me think so, but a combination of facts I find unusual. Given 1) the absence of…

Rape is an unusual crime in the fact that the entirety of your proof really does come in the form of testimony v. testimony, which just makes it hard to prove. It's all about credibility of witnesses and how the jury perceives them. I think the real answer is a societal change in how we view the truthfulness of women.…

This is one of the most important pieces I've read in a really long time.

I know - like, I was raped (by coercion and threats) in college, and it took me years to understand what happened. It was my boyfriend, and we stayed together a little while after that. I felt bad but wasn't sure why, exactly. Emma felt close to him - she had confided in him - why is it out of the question that she…

Really? You read her context and thought forcible anal rape? That didn't come across in my read.

Let's figure out WHY in addition to HOW. Why do men rape? It's not an anomaly of the human condition; it's an ugly but real part of it. Why do women continue to say "I love you" to someone after they have been raped by that person? Also not an anomalous experience/reaction. Why does rape persist in our species,…

That "gotta hear both sides!" (copyright @Desus) mentality is the worst. Like with politics: Dems say x, Republicans say z, so the truth has to be somewhere in the middle at y. No! It doesn't! One side could just be full of shit.

Thank you, I totally will! It's Friday and you're leaving!

The entitlement in telling another woman what to do with her eyebrows. I just — not to be obnoxious about it, but this is how women enact and enforce the patriarchy on one another.

Open carry, Patriot Act, Iraq War, militarization of police because 3,000 people died once. Constant drumbeat of war, fight 'em over there so we don't have to fight 'em over here, people defending the theater chains all over Gawker. Giving up freedom for security every day since 9/11.

To my mind — and I'm not Korean, but I know some people who do who have some ... thoughts about this — he (along with most of the higher-ups at SONY) is a sheltered North American white dude who thinks "What I think is funny herp derp!" takes priority and precedence over every other consideration.

This is part of the reason I've been writing about romance novels more lately — we're at a point where mystery novels and graphic novels and YA and science fiction and fantasy are all afforded some degree of open-mindedness by critics, and Game of Thrones is hugely popular and treated with a great deal of seriousness…