Look, I am not going to dispute that cops became trigger happy goons, but speaking as a long time ex-cop and just general common sense person, if someone pulled that on me I would think it was real.

No. A car accident is a tragedy. Cancer is a tragedy. Parents and GRANDparents riding around an overdosing with a kid in the car is dimwitted, sleazy and dangerous.

Yeah....as the kid of a heroin addict, my sympathy with the pictured couple is extremely limited. I do think that the system needs to change and the treatment should always be favored over imprisonment and shaming. And while this isn’t the best course of action, sometimes a picture like this can show other addicts…

For one, I’m glad the little boy is with the relatives. So the mother fights two years for custody and then shoots up in the car. Well, sorry, she does not deserve custody of her child. I know a woman that had sole custody of her son as the father was absent from her life. One day mom decided to get high and then died…

It’s nice that you take my point, but I would have been far more inclined to back off the suggestion that calling protesting outside the home of a rapist “inhumane” in the same comment as you are trying to plead for people to recognize the humanity of rapists is a poor choice of words at best and a telling one at…

Beware the pseudo-scientist rape apologism happening in this discussion. DinosaurHead’s screeds may be long and larded with faux-progressive polysyllabism, but they are focused on shifting the responsibility, erasing the victim from the narrative, and making excuses for the rapist. All of these are a transparent…

Fuck you. You are shifting the responsibility. You are erasing the victim from the narrative. You are making excuses for the rapist. Your entire narrative is an attempt to gaslight rape victims and their allies.

Thank you.

You say that the family’s reactions are perfectly natural given that they’re experiencing extreme cognitive dissonance and are the product of a culture that treats rape as an extraordinary circumstance (magic, as you say). This is certainly true, but in your account of our culture, you seem to be suggesting that men…