A friend of mine recently got his high-end watch stolen out of his sock drawer when his house was broken into. Not a single person has asked him, "Why would you take the risk of storing something in a place that you thought to be secure [i.e. his own home] but turned out not to be??" This is the technological…

I was in a similar situation with him.I am very sensitive to issues surrounding sexual assault and I left with the exact same feelings that you did.

If you like humans at all, you should really consider moving before the city cures that for you permanently. Such an awful place.

This guy (this is a screenshot of a message to me) needs to meet her. I bet they have loads in common.

R. Kelly is a serial rapist and pedophile. He is 1,000x worse. It is like... let's compare R. Kelly to Rob Lowe. Rob Lowe had the one statutory issue. He has (though he didn't do time) by all accounts changed his life and not repeated it. R. Kelly was almost convicted, walked away with it, and kept on doing whatever…

Thanks for kicking off an interesting conversation. Having never met Tyson, I continue to feel very conflicted about him. I imagine that if I did meet him, I'd be even more conflicted. The question of whether charisma and contrition can ever repair the damage one has done is an important one.

"he went on to play a show at the Rod Laver Arena"

And rape victims can also recover and forgive.

The guy really is a walking, talking Shakespearean character. He has inflicted so much pain on others and has also suffered unimaginable anguish.

He also bit off a man's ear in front of an audience. Doesn't seem like he's going to do that again. People change. Whether or not they can pay a debt to the victim (which the justice system arguably isn't set up to do) is different from whether or not they can pay back society (which arguably it is).

It is not about seeming nice. The discussion of enthusiastic consent etc. is still a new fresh thing NOW. In 1992, it wasn't talked about other than in academic feminist circles. Do I think he should have gotten enthusiastic consent rather than just assume that by agreeing to a date and a booty call Desiree Washington…

To me, rape is a crime that you can never repay. As someone who was just involved in a rape trial that actually went to court, I know that the struggle and turmoil of the victim oftentimes is with them for the rest of their lives. My friend who was raped has panic attacks regularly, has tried to kill herself a few…

The weird thing about Mike Tyson he has admitted to all these horrible things he has done including violence against women, but denies the rape ever happened.

Seriously. He did his time. We can argue it wasn't enough time, but that is on the justice system, not on him. I get angry at celebrities who get passes for their shitty behavior, like Chris Brown and Charlie Sheen. The ones that actually pay for their shit, like Tyson and Kiefer Sutherland and Robert Downey Jr? Nope.…