If everybody complained because somebody allegedly sexually abused them...contracts would be broken all the time...

Conversely, I haven’t changed my mind about Wendy Williams

There were 2 reasons I chose our pediatrician, and it was based on negative Yelp reviews.

I don’t know about criminal charges, but their other children need to be taken away. These white people get to keep their children, meanwhile Native American families have an uphill battle getting theirs back from white foster parents who never had the option to adopt. FFS.

I think it’s more likely that this is a rapist cop who used a false name than a non-cop rapist who managed to steal or make a police cruiser and uniform.

I prefer “Swanson”

The NY Daily News also throws in this irrelevant tidbit, casually describing Alexa as “...the one-time porn starlet” and has a pic of her Instagram with her (I assume) porn name.

Can we stop focusing on Western ideals as the supposed gold standard and just talk about condemning cultural practices that are not compatible with human rights? Making this sound vaguely racist is not helping your argument.

I don’t think that Americans would behave any differently in the same circumstances. Given our own history of irrational hysteria around terror attacks, interment camps, and our current treatment of rape victims, it’s laughable that any commenter thinks we would.

Turning this into a colonialism nostalgia clusterfuck instead of sympathizing genuinely with these women is not the answer. And it can still be racist. The patriachal society continues to exist because the highly unstable society which enables dogmatism to take an upper hand. Women will always be the victims of this.…

I would actually disagree - blood will out is a Western idea as well. It is even a fairly well-entrenched one and turns up pretty frequently in popular culture - look at the number of to shows where someone finds out their father is a villain and then worries what that makes them, or that period in DC comics where…

Slavery was not decided immoral by the West. Nor was women’s equality. These ideas have been around for centuries. As the West benefited the most from the African slave trade, it would seem that they should be the ones to abolish it.

Try getting a rapist convicted in most , no any, Western country and then come back and tell us about those lofty cultural ideals we have here. If Western women had suffered the same fate they would be regarded with just as much suspicion, the only difference here is that there are more support groups but that’s the…

You mean the same “western ideals” that made French troops force little girls and women in the Central African Republic to have sex with dogs and a variety of other sexual violence?

Western ideals likely wouldn’t help. Look at the treatment in the US when we enter a long armed conflict with another nation. Muslims (and those perceived as Muslim) are the current whipping boys. But the Japanese and some German Americans were thrown in camps in WW2 ( some Italian non citizens as well). At the same…

Okay, but which part of the western culture ideals can account for the 1 in five women who are raped and the 6% of rapist to ever actually serve time? Is rape culture part of the western cultural ideals you’re talking about too? Or are you talking about the actions of the aggressive soldiers because I have some…

Agreed that this is vapid and emetic; and also that weekend Jezebel is not the Slot.

“Reagan/Bush ‘84"?

my entire response to every single one of these pictures: “what.”

People, please start believing that health care IS the miracle God sent you.