“Underwear is not the same as swimming suits. It’s just—they allow 16-year-olds to bring liquor to a party. They provide liquor to underage people, and you wonder how these things happen.”

I’ve sat next to women as they’re literally in tears begging the detective and their sexual assault case to even so much as follow up by doing a basic interrogation of the assailant.

Why does it feel like the judge is sympathizing with the rapist because he might be a sexual predator himself. Fuck people saying boys will be boys when it comes to sexual assault.

That was my immediate thought too.  He sees himself in what this kid did, and doesn’t want to consider that his own past behavior was criminal and would be viewed as criminal today.  

I actually went and read through the whole transcript. At no point does the judge even mention how difficult this must be to the victim or express sympathy towards her. There are mentions about 16-years old having access to alcohol and all that, because of course this douche would find that at the heart of it as any…

I hate mandatory minimums. I hate the cultural focus on prison as the only solution for crime and criminals.

He is a rapist. He is now free to offend again. This is not just about punishment, this is about how women are not safe in our society. Women are constantly told how to behave to be safer, but men are not stopped from victimizing women.

I’m pretty anti-prison, and I want real criminal justice reform, so the idea of an 18 year old being warehoused and incarcerated for four years is not an appealing one to me either.  

Gender and age are two different things.

You are diminishing Arab lives and Arab history. Wherever Judaism may have begun, by and large the Zionists who sought to create a Jewish state in what was then Mandatory Palestine were not from there in any meaningful sense of the word. They migrated to land that was already occupied by real, living human beings,…

I”m sure I’m going to regret bringing you out of the greys, but when you talk about a nation of “indigenous people” and “refugees,” are you talking about Israel or Palestine? Because, Palestinians are the indigenous people of land that Israel exists on now (the majority of Israelis of Jewish descent would trace their…

Nope. Her modesty talk/slut shaming during MeToo makes her a dumpster fire pairing with the “no preggo models” guy.

She’s not a great choice either. 

Adam Driver is basically hung like a horse and i fucking knew it. The man is a fridge. He can grab my entire head with his one gigantic hand and crush my skull and spit on me and thats ok. Do it Adam.

I’m 59 and can confirm that getting older doesn’t mean the bullshit stops. It takes a different tone, one that starts out convinced that it’s target needs to hear that she’s still pretty hot for an old lady, and ends with threats of violence and ageist insults when the target doesn’t simper and coo in response. This…

Yes, it’s true. I think some things to keep in mind about Qanon is that the same people who are creating and pushing that lie are known projectionists so it would behoove us to pay attention to what they are claiming as too often they are the ones who end up indicted for these types of crimes.

Yeah, that’s what always gets to me when stories of abusers come to light. “Well, he’s a really good doctor/comedian/morning news anchor.” You can’t be a good doctor and abuse your patients at the same time, that makes you a bad doctor! Also, if any profession is attracting so many fucking creeps that you’re worried…

“former head gymnastics coach Kathie Klages threatened a teenager with “serious consequences” when she tried to report Nassar.” Clearly an exception.

After Penn State, I read somewhere that men, when they find out about stuff like this, tend to empathize with the perpetrator instead of the victim. So Mike McQuerry was grossed out by what Jerry Sandusky was doing instead of, you know, thinking about what the child was enduring.

I’ve been married since before God made dirt, so I haven’t experienced this with exes, but I have experienced the obsession with my sister (who judges me harshly and doesn’t love or respect me as much as she worships and idolizes our other sister) and my dad. The “ultimate judge” comment hit me right between the eyes.…