I absolutely think that eyewitness testimony should not be sufficient evidence to convict on alone.

I agree that the criminal justice system will never get justice for sexual assault survivors without significant changes in who the system is designed for. In this case, Black men at large were punished for threatening Sebold’s perfect white virginal body. In other cases, assaults on less perfect female bodies have…

I agree that there need to be many stopgaps in place to prevent false accusations from becoming false convictions.

I’ve literally never seen this system work in real life. I’ve only ever seen it fail victims, people falsely accused, or both.

Been there. Trauma fucks with memory. You’re not alone and you’re not a bad person.

CW: Rape, details

Right?! We all know she’s sorry. Who cares if she’s sorry? Is she sorry enough to give back her money, her fame, her platform? Is she sorry enough to spend the next 16 years becoming a public face for the Innocence Project?
My guess is no.

It seems like there’s a lot she could do. She could begin by reaching out to him to ask him what he wants, what he needs from her to make him whole.

This country was able to keep us all home to protect us for an entire year, but could not manage to keep one child out of school for long enough to protect his classmates. It cannot keep guns out of the hands of children. I’m so tired.

I was the pet at my most recent workplace. My second week there, my former boss called me into her workplace to tell me I was showing too much skin—only she chose to express that in public, while gesturing to her tits and ass to demonstrate areas I needed to cover. I’m not even sure that conversation was legal.

Jezebel has done an excellent job of alienating its Jewish readers, by creating a false equivalency between anti-Israel and anti-semitic attacks perpetrated by Muslim women of late. I’m very proud to be a Jew. I’m very disgusted at having ever been a Jezebel reader.

I adore Panettiere as an artist, but she’s another one of those child actresses who got pushed onto center stage way too early in life.

I think it’s actually awesome that all these famous shows are being remade with POC characters. It does suck that shows have to be reboots, apparently, to have POC leads and to address immigration and border concerns. 

I never heard that about Spacey.

I read about the Apt Pupil incident. Even if you don’t believe the victim’s statement that Singer molested him, you still have a group of boys told to strip after they signed on with the very specific stipulation that this would not happen. And like you said, that’s canon—no one can suggest that never happened.

Shit, my bad. I’m watching Masterchef and I got One Potato confused with Bad Hat Harry.

Christina “stole” P!nk’s producer, who was also P!nk’s bestie once upon a time. Of course they hated each other.

Wait. Seriously? Six to ten generations back?

How about no one should shame anyone into eating when we don’t want to eat? I can’t eat first thing in the morning, and I tend to get hungry late at night. Big whoop. As long as I eat healthy food, who cares?

Because fat people never eat salads. Yup.