It sounds like you didn't actually read the bill.

I'm going to start a radfem band called Karma for your Cock. It's going to be epic.

I wasn't there (and neither were you). But giving both the guy in question and his long, and public history of misogynistic behavior, and how rare it is for women to make up rape stories. Yes, I think it's extremely unlikely she is lying. And that while her behavior was risky and stupid, again, that does not mean she…

I think it is possible she really liked him and when she forced her to have oral sex, she went into a kind of emotional shock. Maybe she was still processing it, tried to rationalize it and did not want to be a rape victim, esp to someone she had decided to date—a mix of fear, shame and embarrassment. Then when it…

Gosh it's almost like something traumatic happening to a person can cause their thoughts and actions to deviate from expected norms. But naw, let's go ahead and assume she's lying and lecture her about how REAL rape victims are SUPPOSED to act, that seems like a much better course of action.

Rape victims can be in serious denial and not want to acknowledge what just happened. If this person was a friend they might not want to believe they "let this happen" or misunderstood the situation and let things get out of control. Some women want to pretend like nothing happened so they don't have to deal with the…

His "social experiment" plan was such a failure. The video focused on domestic violence against men, a typical move by misogynists, which has jack shit to do with him sexually harassing women.

are YOU joking? maybe she's internalized all the shit she's been taught, that maybe she was asking for it, that she owed it to him, that maybe it was just some rough sex. that rape only happens in a dark alley by a scaaaaary black man, not by a youtube celebrity who she was on some kind of date with.

This goes along with dispelling the idea that rape is a stranger jumping out of a dark street or parking lot to attack a random woman. The guilt and confusion that accompanies rape by an acquaintance makes it even less likely that the victim would run away and immediately call police, the way movies or ideas in our…

no, you have some common fucking sense, you ignorant asshole. do you know how many women suffer through rape and, because it wasn't violent stranger rape, assume what happened wasn't, in fact, rape? as a defense mechanism for what just happened to them.

Right. Because every rape victim ever has always been immediately aware of the severity of what took place and never tries to excuse, rationalize or blame themselves for what happen. No rape victim has ever remained silent because they feared shame, reprisal or further abuse for making "a big deal" out of having been…

or maybe she was so shocked, she was in denial, and assumed that what happened wasn't rape.

Wow like women who get the shit beaten out of them and still go back to the abuser. Thank God we have you to tell us what REAL VICTIMS act like. BARF

I think you are right, from a strictly legal perspective, it changes very little. However, I think it can be argued that changing the culture is more important at this point.

It's better than:

I've read a lot of comments about this over the past month or so, and I've waffled on both sides of the argument. I think where I've finally landed, is from a legal perspective, the he-said/she-said narrative doesn't really change. However, I think the bedroom narrative does drastically. Where this will really help…

Advancing the understanding of consent is a big deal to some of us.

How terrible if a person and lay must you be to be afraid about this? If she isn't totally excited about sleeping with you, is unresponsive and completely non-verbal, it's either rape or you're absolutely terrible in bed and either way you should stop and check in. How low must your self esteem be and how much must…

Yeah but that last line IS a statement of affirmative consent, no?

These are great tips for having sex on or at a woman.