As a Mizzou alum, I would like to say fuck this week.

Not much has changed since Kitty Genovese.

Ban the Internet.

In other words, it’s exactly where the real bar is in Boston that was used for exterior establishing shots.

That’s different, though. Amateur groups do this because they generally don’t get a ton of people of color auditioning for their shows by default and don’t want to do the necessary outreach to get them. This director had a specific political reason why he cast the show the way he did. We can debate whether or not it…

The hottest musical on Broadway right now stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, and Christopher Jackson as founding fathers, so . . . I mean, not too far off.

I’m Ecuadorian (and Colombian) and my mom and all her friends used to joke about Bobbitt all the time when I was a kid. She was seen as a national hero* by women in Ecuador back in the 90s. Jokes mainly revolved around the idea that you don’t and should never fuck with an Ecuadorian woman’s heart unless you want your…

Hold on, what U.S. colleges supposedly have this? I’ve never met anyone whose college asked them to sign something like that.

I understand the question, but think it’s more accurate to say that this man is mentally incapable of consenting to sex, or likely even understanding what sex is. He has the mental capacity of a toddler. Do you think a toddler should be “barred” from having sex? Because I do.

IMO, this whole article reeks of someone playing at investigative journalism, and thus succumbing to false balance. We don’t have to hold in our head the notion that this women is not a rapist because she says she’s not a rapist. Just like we shouldn’t actually have to hear “both sides” concerning climate change.

A quick scan of the comments here seems to indicate a general agreement that this woman indeed raped her charge, because his mental faculties are so impaired that he is incapable of giving consent. And she certainly does sound unprofessional!

If she were a cis het dude it wouldn’t be a question. We’re so terrified of “giving women a bad name,” since under patriarchy a woman’s fuck up is our collective doom (see “How It Is” at xkcd), that we try to rationalize all the wrong shit we do. Kinda like I’m doing here? It’s ... not good.

We aren’t assuming that in this case, though. His doctors said that he has the mental capacity of a toddler. That’s not an assumption. I’m not saying that the assumption isn’t made a lot about people with disabilities, because obviously it is, but it hasn’t been made HERE.

“At his request, she said, she pushed down his pants, loosened his diaper and performed oral sex on him.”

The fucked up thing is she claims that he is “refusing” to talk now out of spite because she was arrested.

“Did someone call me?”

Umm, I think the fact that could not speak and likely had the IQ of a toddler is more relevant to the consent issue. FYI, he was not her student. He was the brother of her student. He was, however, her client/patient, despite her not being at all licensed in what she was aiming to do...

“New York state clinicians believe that D.J. has the mental capacity of a toddler.”

Read the damn article. It’s way more serious than that.

Yes, because she slept with a student. It’s that simple. If she had power over the student, then the student could not consent.