What the hell is wrong with the police? They didn’t even think to just record what was said. We write notes for my IEP meetings. Why wouldn’t the police do the same?

I speak from experience when I say that the Crown is not actually on the side of victims, and do more to discourage them from pursuing justice than they do to prepare them for trial. You have to be your own advocate and you’re on your own as far as figuring out how to prepare yourself.

Exactly. The Crown did a terrible job preparing these women as witnesses. And now a serial assaulter gets away scot free because of it. Wretched work,Crown.

I’m sure the victims thought (naively, perhaps) that the case would focus on whether or not he assaulted them, and whether or not he obtained consent.

Yup, the prosecution is at fault, not the women, they should have been fully briefed, questioned to ensure full disclosure and given tools to deal with difficult lines of questioning.

The prosecution fucked this one up. The women should have been told all of this way before the trial. That the women are now saying that they only learned about the power of “post-incident conduct” during the trial is a complete indictment of the failure of the prosecution. The prosecutors should have been sitting…

You are accusing someone of a serious crime. Of course your memory is on trial. Of course what happens after matters. How do you not realize this? The crown fucked up so bad in this case.

Only if we can sister-wife it, because I want in on this marriage as well.

I want to marry this whole thread.

Oh shit, my bad, sry.

Had your teacher being reading too much Discworld?

No, he said “man with hole in pocket feels cocky all day”

I just attribute everything I say to Maya Angelou.

Actually, little known fact about Gandhi is that he was vital in the customer service crisis of 1920. He single handedly heard the complaints of every woman with a Kate Gosselin haircut in India and gave them each a $5 off coupon for their next visit to any store in the country.

I’m glad that if the opportunity does present itself you won’t say no just because of hustlers. Just ignore them, literally pretend you don’t see or hear them and they’ll just move on. Come visit! It’s a great city! :)

“Walt, back dat ass up” - ANCIENT WISDOM FROM THE CRADLE OF CREATION

You know, I thought there were a surprising amount of African proverbs about wanting to bang Walt Whitman.

I mean, it’s so easily avoided while still doing fun, touristy things. I don’t like the crowds, but you can easily walk through Times Square without being accosted, since you are there with about a thousand other people at the same time. You are also less likely to be approached if you don’t look like an obvious…

The problem with all of these is that they are actually Oscar Wilde quotes.