The burden of proof is put upon the victim and there’s often a bias toward innocence,
I got robbed once with two friends while walking to the Hell-Osco on Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. Following that ordeal, what started as a grocery run turned into a marathon beer and shot session (with many free rounds when we retold the hold up story). Adrenaline works in strange ways.
I’m so happy.
Also, Team Sex got screwed over. Russia is paying Jim off.
I don’t understand how people who claim to want to be part of a movement for criminal justice reform can insist that even someone who was acquitted has to carry around the burden of guilt for the rest of his life so that the accusation defines him forever. Restorative justice - the idea that we want to rehabilitate…
If she changed her mind half way through, and then they stopped having sex, that still is not rape. People change their minds, and as long as all parties continue to abide by that evolving status of consent, there is no rape.
A guy once told me how he had sex with a girl who changed her mind half way through and cried afterwards. He called it “bad sex” while I scrambled to pick my jaw up from the floor. He just thought it was an annoying incident, a nuisance. Needless to say I ghosted him and warned mutual friends about him. But I suspect…
Yuuuup. This is what people mean when they say politics is becoming tribal. It’s not about setting a principle - you know, don’t rape - and then enforcing that principle. The explicit practice on all sides now is just to pick groups of people you want to see win, and then shape your narrative around making sure they…
I suspect only in a plea bargain.
So much this.
Jezebel is reporting this rape in a very different way than it usually does.
YES. But I forgive you.
Is it wrong to find him attractive this way?
Winona Ryder-era Damon would never have done that.
Maybe he’s cosplaying Penn Jillette.
So long Waffle House doesn’t give up its aesthetic of half-burnt out 25w bulb lighting and how everything vaguely feels like it has a thin layer of congealed grease on it.
Yeah, like I said on the io9 article, it really seems like they’re taking a very small, intimate story and trying to turn it into a large-scale, high-stakes blockbuster movie. I have a feeling all the cool philosophical themes that make up the real meat of the original story are going to be completely overshadowed,…
Nate Parker isn’t really interested in equity; he’s interested in privileging black masculinity and himself. It’s really ugly and I’m not here for it. If your pro-Blackness isn’t pro-woman, pro-queer, pro-trans, pro-disability, it is NOT pro-Blackness; you just want to oppress as you yourself were oppressed.
What I find grossly hypocritical here is the softly-softly approach in this piece, discussing at length whether and how the rape charge should be factored into how the media approaches Parker, whereas when it comes to, for example, Woody Allen, it’s not just him but anyone who even goes near him (Blake Lively, Kristen…