I’m still not over Lindy West.
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It’s really terrifying and disgusting how repulsed we are by rape as a concept but are unable to support rape victims when the time comes.
Captain Awkward had a really, sadly accurate column about this a while ago, the way we protect our creepy/rapist friends, why, and how.
“well we have to keep an eye on him now that he has a daughter”.
Self-blame must be some kind of mental defense mechanism that gives victims and potential victims a sense of control.
It’s common. Families—shit, everyone protects abusers. You would be AMAZED at the amount of concessions people make to not “embarrass” known sexual predators by saying out loud what they’ve done.
It doesn’t appear to be a community problem in this case, since the girl’s mother reacted very quickly. I’m impressed with her, and I hope she continued to show the girl support. Just awful.
1) that photo is adorable
I’ve thought about it, but not only would it kill me and my family, but even if it did happen, all the rich bastards would be left alive and their usually the worst anyway, so little would be accomplished as society fell apart for any non-rich survivors.
Do you ever just read stuff like this and think “we as a species really deserve to be hit by a meteor”?
I’ve never seen Nashville or heard of Clara Bowen, but that was an incridbly touching story and I'm not crying at all.
I’m done being really offended with this and am in the BORED NOW stage. Seriously. Because every time I try to explain to someone why OCD isn’t funny, they tell me how they like their DVDs in alphabetical order which makes them like, totally OCD too soooo.....
Rage. Rage stroke.I want to tell him to try having…
Fuck that guy.
I really wanted to come up with a restrained, balanced comment here but all my brain can come out with is F**K TRUTHERS! And I’m too lazy to too busy at work to look up and insert the “that’s enough internet for you today” gif here.
Yes. She is a rapist. She took advantage of someone who is, by professional medical opinion, so severely disabled that he cannot care for himself, cannot speak, and has the mental capacity of a toddler. She took advantage of someone for whom she had responsibility. Whether he has a “healthy libido” or not is a…
Men and women can both absolutely be attracted to a “type.” The difference is men feel entitled to women of a certain beauty standard, whereas women are told to be grateful for ::any:: male attention. If a woman speaks out about her ideal type, then she is shallow. If a man does it, he’s just taking what is his.
Is this guy really a 40 year old man complaining about ‘laxtitutes’? Hot young women want to fuck hot young men. This should not upset actual adults.
Thank you for this. 10 minutes ago my disdain for Weezer was purely aural but now it is moral as well. Upgrade.