I hadn’t read that. Crikey. Thanks for posting it!

I know, and it’s a very important, and very good pillar.

But I don’t think that’s what was said, right? A decision was made against him, and, while the lawsuit seems to be based on unfair treatment, it is also premised on the illegitimacy of the decision.

I remember that incident. And this is the problem-obviously, from my perspective, I’m going off of numbers, but 99% is still not %100. And I agree that some situations are used to “make an example” more than others.

The morning after my rape, when I was still bleeding and in pain, I hugged my rapist, kissed him on the cheek, and told him I’d “see him later.”

I call this The Cosby Effect.

^^This^^

I mean, that is a possibility. And public criticism in the face of false accusation is, I imagine, a terrible, terrible thing.

*your

I have the same reaction to Donald Trump as I do to these young men who, accused of rape and, in several instances, found “guilty” to an extent sufficient to warrant some sort of punishment, sue people. (That guy from Columbia tried to sue on the basis that HIS rights, as accused rapist, should have been protected by…

“Pus” not “Puss.”

That’s funny. That quote is referring to “the sore that are pussy” as is puss-y, i.e., full of puss.

Yes. It is self-defense.

I wonder if we can make the argument that being a woman in the present is being a woman in the present, trans or cis respectively, but being a woman in the present does not guarantee you were a woman in the past, hence the distinction between trans and cis.

Thank you!

I think these episodes have widened my eyes to the experience and reality of privilege more than anything else.

That is, by far, the oddest comment I have ever heard, whether online or elsewhere.

I don’t think the uproar about this ad has much to do with their body sizes. I think it’s because this ad does not originate in the male gaze.

nope!

On the one hand: Huh. Seems kinda weird. I mean, why would taxi drivers need to learn to not rape women? What does driving a woman have to do with raping her?