Right? It still boggles my mind that so many people immediately blame the women ("Why didn't she leave right away? Fame hungry slut!") rather than asking what an established, powerful photographer is doing shoving his dick in young women's faces. There's such a clear power differential here! Even IF (and that's a big…

Oh I think he definitely understands those concepts (that's why he keeps doing it and getting away with it). This "I've never threatened anyone's career or offered exclusives for sex" bullshit is just stupid.

Excellent mansplaining. Hopefully your next post will tell us how to organize, because, you know, lady brains and naivete and all...

Oh, I don't know, maybe the evidence contained in all recorded history?

So then, what ARE you saying? That we should be coming at this from a kinder, gentler angle so we don't alienate men? If "good men" can't handle being shown what their sex is capable of, they won't be convinced by sweetness.

So, good men don't want people to make that assumption about them — that's part of why this movement is so important, in my opinion. The good men need to see that the nasty ones are making them ALL LOOK BAD. Good men need to learn to call out misogyny when they see it, let their bros know when they're making a woman…

did you just "not all men" this comment thread? You really haven't been paying attention.

So she's stayed "anonymous" so far but disclosed that she "works in fashion," which surprises me NOTATALL (as someone else who works in this terrible industry). All of my coworkers are sample sizes (except me, oops) and all any of them talk about are how fat they are or whose body they covet. Lots of jealousy,…

You know, there's really nothing like watching a weirdo completely unravel on a Gawker thread. Your descent into incoherence is making my afternoon.

A+ point-by-point take down! There was too much stupid in that comment for me to wrap my head around.

Yesterday my boyfriend's buddy posted a close-up picture of a woman in white shorts from behind with some caption about "bored at the DMV, at least I have a good view!" and I had to be the "feminist fun ruiner" as usual. He seemed to genuinely not understand why what he did was creepy as fuck, which really concerns me…

The article itself mentions STI and pregnancy testing , which I feel would absolutely be relevant to an investigation. Contracting the same STI strain as your attacker is some kind of evidence, right? And pregnancy provides DNA evidence that could close the case.

Are you serious? Almost all of our focus, ALL OF THE TIME, is on men, and their needs and feelings. Women fight for basic birth control and reproductive health coverage, but employers have no problem covering Viagra on their insurance plans. Women are raped and assaulted on college campuses, and instead of examining…

It's pretty frustrating to realize that lots of dudes respect the idea of a hypothetical man who already "has" you more than they respect you, a human being standing in front of them.

Seriously. Didn't Margaret Atwood say "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them"? The two are not equal, and trying to make them so is insulting, not to mention illogical.

Whoops, I totally replied to your post instead of sostanky's weirdness — my apologies. Damn it, Kinja.

Don't derail, you know perfectly well what the OP meant. Basic human rights are owed. Sex and relationships are not.

That's what I can't get over! People saying things like, "if someone had just noticed him and given him the affection he craved, maybe this could have been avoided." Um, no. What do we think would have happened to any poor girl who went out with him the first time she dared say "no"?

Because something a 10-year old girl said (12 years ago) does not excuse the actions of a 22-year old man? Maybe?