Even during non-stressful situations, half of what you think you see is actually your brain filling in details your eyes can’t perceive. It’s pretty good at it, so most of the time you don’t notice, but any time you “see” anything it has already been through your brain’s editing suite.

I am so sorry for your experience and thank you for your honesty. We don't talk about this because it seems cruel to question victims. But the snapshots our brains take in a highly emotional moment can be off.

I was the victim of an attempted sexual assault (I was able to fight him off) and “remembered” completely the wrong thing (I think I thought that he had a du rag and he didn’t—or the other way around). I was shocked when I saw the security footage (and thank God there was security footage). Eyewitness memories are…

I honestly think the criminal justice system is fundamentally incapable of dealing with issues like rape and sexual assault. Because it doesn’t exist to support victims, no matter how shows like SVU portray it. It exists to get convictions, to put people in prison. Meaning it exists to facilitate sexual assault, which…

I don’t know what the answer to the question in the headline is, I’m far from equipped to even begin to offer an answer. She was an 18 year old victim of rape who, as far as I can tell, did not do anything malicious, but was essentially coached into making a false accusation. I understand why people want to hold her…

An 18 yr. old, White rape victim was asked to put faith in a system that ultimately failed. The system which is taught by white parents to obey in a very different way than black parents warn their children to be wary. Ms. Sebold’s trauma and blind faith put Mr. Broadwater’s life in jeopardy in so many ways from the…

I confess I absolutely cannot wrap my head around the Smollett case. Like....WHY?? It’s just so astoundingly stupid if this is all true. Like, no rational cost/benefit analysis would make this even remotely feasible. Gamble your career and reputation on what, a pay raise? To be fair, I absolutely don’t get the…

The “joy” (read: horror) of capitalism is that literally anything, no matter how noble, positive, or even anti-capitalist, will eventually be co-opted and sold.

Sometimes I wonder... when is too quickly to move on after a relationship? Makes me feel weird when other people comment “they moved on quickly.” Well, after a 9 year relationship in their case, is a month too long? 2 years? Half that time? Point is, outsiders never know what is happening. Either party could have…

Because people who have been fucking *assaulted* want to go hang out in the same room as their attacker. >< People are morons.

Only times that kids are treated like kids are when they are white and are racist towards others or they are White Males who rape girls. Then they should be treated like kids according to 63 Million american’s. UGH!

Sorry you went through that. There was this teacher at my middle school- a guy in his 60's, and his wife taught there too. I never heard anything about him raping or molesting anybody, but he and his wife felt very strongly about young female modesty. So strongly apparently that he thought it was fine and righteous to…

That is absolutely the way this judge saw it. He completely disregarded this molester’s sexual battery conviction and focused on his ‘intellectual disability,’ to the detriment of those young girls AND justice. An issue that didn’t make it into the Jez piece: the judge questioned the level of harm both girls suffered…

Hope you're ok after these hard two years. Been there. 

BINGO! Kids that age don’t naturally gravitate to this behavior without having been groomed for it. Sickening.

I loved the attorney’s reply, although it is frightening that a judge needs to be reminded that a minor can’t consent. I hope the judge and this disgusting pedophile end up in the same cell block.

This judge has raped/molested women/girls, I fucking guarantee it. At an absolute minimum, there have been date rape. Men who understand consent AND GET CONSENT don’t say things like this.

It’s amazing to me that adults are often treated with less agency than kids.

For the longest time, a good two decades after my teacher molester was convicted of raping me daily for two years, I had feelings of fault so ingrained in my psyche, that the self-abuse track I was on nearly ended my life.

There were some major problems with this episode. Such as Lafayette getting roughly a second of screentime. (And rather than putting Lettie Mae in the final scene, they could have just had the reverend say to Sookie, "By the way, my wife died an agonizingly painful death last night.")