UMD has only disciplined four people for sexual assault in the past ten years, while your own school suggests at minimum, 13.8 percent of UMD students are victims of rape each year, a number it even admits might be very under reported.

In fairness, it's been 50 pounds since that guy saw an armpit.

You can hit stuff with it and make it do The Helicopter.

My (trans) daughter refuses to watch this show no matter how many times I try to convince her. She's boycotting because Maura is not played by a trans actor. I personally think he does an astonishingly great performance. I tried to argue that he's perfect since Maura is just in the beginning stages of transition and a…

I'll take your word for it!

I don't feel sorry for him - because I doubt anything will happen - but it was clearly shitty of NYT to publish his town and street name.

Never a fan of his music, but I've heard a lot of stories about him being a really cool guy.

I bet that asshole, Chris Gaines, will be performing in his place.

The Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has invited us to write in "advising me on what is best in our tradition and our current life that we must reconfirm as we turn ourselves to the challenge and the difficulty of this moment—and advising me, also and crucially, on what is most broken that…

Yes, trite "dialogue." But I will remain convinced that the "brotherhood" of Phi Psi throughout the ages is based on the commission of gang rape as pledges, and the secrecy and fear of that getting out, will bind them to each other and to the fraternity. Some frats have particularly bad pledging rituals, and this is…

It says a lot that you don't find the horrible shit that people say to rape victims plausible. It means you've likely never been a rape victim in this type of environment. That's really great for you. Perhaps don't underestimate how truly disturbing and horrible people are and listen to the people telling you about…

I am a male in my mid 60s, was drafted in one of the last drafts and did one combat tour of Vietnam. I have been a bar bouncer, a bail bondsman and a personal executive bodyguard. I never attended college, but I do know something about sexual assault. My two sisters and I were in a total of five orphanages between…

It's possible the journalist took some general sentiments relayed to her by the subject and turned them into exact quotes. But dude, that's really not the issue here, and focusing on those details and saying they don't add up, even though you keep emphasizing that you aren't doubting the victim's claims, is reading as…

I have said this many times around these parts - we have only scratched the surface of that guy's crimes against women. He's going to be found to be a serial rapist and murderer, and several unsolved crimes will be attributed to him, as long as the police and FBI don't screw up the DNA matching.

I have, with my own ears, heard something similar said to a female rape victim because her rapist was "hot" and "popular". That doesn't make it true, of course. However, it is sadly plausible. (At least in the early 90s) (No, my friend didn't report the rape because she was afraid other people would think the same way…

Because the incident took place several years ago and at timing of this conversation was minutes after an unspeakably traumatic experience, I read these to be not exact, direct quotations, but the "gist" of what the victim remembers her friends saying to her.

Then you haven't been paying attention. She is not the first victim with this exact same story to come forward: from the disgusting things said by the rapists down to the horrible comments made by friends. If you've never experienced it, you should try to find an ounce of fucking empathy and believe victims. Read…

People in shock remember things weird. She might not have taken, you know, precious notes.

Shut down the Greek system. It's past time.

As terrible as the rape/sexual assault epidemic is across college campuses (as is the covering of these crimes up), the reason it happens is due to larger socioeconomic (or more accurately kyriarchical) forces at play in society. Some rape counselors out in the world warn survivors that (particularly with sexual…