“[B]ut hasn’t been able to tell anyone which restaurant this happened in or offer any further supporting evidence.”

I assumed the article would try to portray this trend as rent-seeking behavior (which I don’t really see, but I was open to being persuaded,) but obviously there was no follow-through on this “mini-landlord” thing.

How much credibility can the movement have if it can be swayed by money.

It’s almost like a really fucked up ritual; at some point Ron DeSantis had a meeting with his team and asked “would it help my electoral prospects if I start doing some ritual human sacrifice? And if so, how many must die?”

similarly lose any shred of lust when I see men list themselves as “apolitical”

This is a bad take. We don’t even need to get into the whole “paradox of tolerance” and “freedom of expressions is not a suicide pact”/“is it okay to punch Nazis?” discussions to say, without ambiguity or qualification, that it wasn’t okay or acceptable for Will Smith to put his hands on Chris Rock that night. Chris…

“I’m sure he’s committed some crime in the last month”

It is entirely possible that Rihanna phoning in a performance is superior to 90% of artists going all out on their best day; I probably even affirmatively believe that. But that doesn’t change the fact that she phoned in this performance; it is what it is—she doesn’t need the money or exposure, she’s not promoting any…

“[W]hy is this even still a topic of conversation?”

I tend to agree with you here. The alternative is that this guy is just walking around with a bag full of dog shit *all the time*. That said, he DID smear shit on another person’s face, so we’re not dealing with a well-adjusted person here.

These things will only become more ubiquitous as the technology gets better and easier to use. I’m not saying that as a reason to not legislate against its proliferation in some way or other, but the fact is that public figures—and especially women—are unfortunately going to need to figure out how to navigate or…

My immediate reaction to this article was to Google her, and then let out a huge sigh relief that she’s not Cuban or Cuban-American. I’m Cuban-American, and am constantly apologizing for my people.

Thank you for this thoughtful response. I forgot about Jack Kevorkhian, that’s a good example.

We regret to inform you that you are terribly wrong. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make by asserting this incorrect assumption or if you’re simply arguing in bad faith but regardless, you really should do your homework.

This is just pure twisted because even pre-encounter, the girl wouldnt have consented per her testimony to sex with the second individual

The only truly effective way to “record consent” is to record the entire sexual encounter from beginning to end.

Will this be legal precedent now?

At a minimum, a consent video taken from before could serve as a useful evidence (that is, useful to a jury in making factual determinations,) of whether the person was conscious, or whether they were too drunk or drugged to even form consent in the first place. It’s not uniformly or equally useful in all cases, but…

Rape continues to be the only violent crime where the burden of proof is on the victim, regardless of where the crime occurs.

If I were a juror, and there were video of the victim/plaintiff/accuser giving their consent to have sex with every other relevant party, and it were recorded before the sexual encounter occurred—and the video looked like they weren’t being coerced, threatened, drugged, drunk, etc.—then I think that I would probably…