How on Earth has Ben Carson shot to the top of the polls? Who’s planning on voting for that guy?

Go easy on me, I’m new here :(

EXCELLENT points. However, I think some aspects of “attractiveness” and also the perception of attractiveness are indeed biological. Particularly the preference for large-ish, even, and symmetrical features — there’s been at least one study (that I’m aware of, and likely others) which noted that newborns/infants show…

Don’t you think attractiveness is somewhat due to biology, though? As in the studies that have shown that men are attracted to certain features in a woman because they are signs of certain biological factors.. Like wider hips mean better for bearing children, full lips and full face are a sign of youth, and mean she…

Bulshit “attractiveness is not entirely defined by our social perceptions.” There is tons of evidence that plenty about attractiveness is objective and ingrained into us, over millions of years of evolution. Is it the end all be all, no not even close. Can social pressures and social learning sway you to find things…

We don’t have unelected groups of men in rural areas sentencing children to rape. Signed an American.

“This isn’t our fight.” That’s the kind of ignorant half-argument that allows this kind of thing to be perpetrated around the world. Is there a difference whether it’s happening in the town down the road? The next state over? Half the world away? The moment you’re aware of something like this happening, you have a…

America has zero rapes happening as punishment for law breaking. It is in fact against the law to rape. I know India is not the worst place in the world, and all the American Indians I’ve met have been great. But come the fuck on, no way that is comparable at all.

Why is it our responsibility to stampede in and enforce the laws of other countries for them? Ally or not, this isn't our fight.

I know. I’m so tired of Westerners romanticizing Eastern religions. They are just as ghastly as Western religions.

While I will not make any statements against any culture, and freely admit the U.S. is awash in misogyny, please tell me any instance in modern U.S. culture when a woman was sentenced to be raped by any legal governing body. I'll wait, because I really want to know if there is one instance of that.

it’s natural to want to defend your country but publicly sanctioned punishment rapes might not be the best hill to die on...

MASSIVELY EDITED: I cowtow. I really don’t feel like getting into a debate on the internet right now and don’t believe the things being attributed to me so I will just remove the text, say ‘What is happening in this one place in India sucks!” And move on

The worst part is, them existing in the lowest caste means theres almost a 100% chance they’ve already been raped and exploited dozens of times.

So evidence of forced entry basically, and then evidence to connect to DNA? Did I get that right?

Abrasions firstly, but the swab is to detect for foreign matter (blood, semen, STDs), and hair and under-nail samples are taken looking for same and DNA.

Are they limiting her professionally? Are they intruding on her though?

I’d thought it was the same day after her visit to the nurse. Anyway, it’s moot. He could have penetrated her with his penis but not ejaculated... still rape. It’s all moot now, but given the evidence it’s hard to convict him of aggravated sexual assault (which is generally of the type of knife-to-neck type). In fact,…

I noted elsewhere: there was no semen found inside her or in her underwear.

“Katie Swango, a state criminalist, said she found “strong indication of the presence of semen” on the girl’s underwear. Though tests of the spermwere inconclusive, they did find DNA that matched Labrie’s on the underwear. A state police…

Rape kit, for better or worse, did not indicate rape.