1) Yes, and the men who are identified as rapists have an average of six victims, so I would especially not want to date someone who had raped enough people to actually get caught. That’s generally not a one-off situation. And if I learned that a man I was dating had raped someone and not gotten caught, I would leave…

Be careful. She might sue you for saying that.

I lived in a couple of different parts of Texas. (Travis County > Harris.) I honestly don’t hate Texas. Or Virginia. Or Florida. I’m a little surprised everyone’s getting that read.

YEP. Me, too. I won’t go out with a guy unless I can google his name and find an electronic footprint that indicates it’s a real name, and no indicia that he’s raped anybody. I avoided going out with a guy who was recently convicted on child porn charges this way. I’m sure he would have been in jail still if his…

Perhaps you can recognize that you don’t speak for all victims, and yours is not the only experience a victim can have. I strongly object to using the word “ruined” with regards to rape victims, but many do suffer lifelong harm or find their lives derailed by the trauma. There are lifelong consequences for many rape…

Yes, when you only say one thing about a place because it’s directly relevant to a conversation you’re currently having, that indicates that it’s literally the only thing you’ve ever thought about that place.

Right? And as we all know, he’ll still have a better chance of getting a response to his resume than a man of color with no criminal record, so. Not super sad for him.

I don’t necessarily agree with all of the collateral consequences of sex offender registry in every case, nor do I think that the sex offender registry should cover as many offenses as it does. But for rapists? I absolutely think there should be a searchable list of rapists that women should be able to view.

... Okay maybe complicated wasn’t the right word. What I meant was more that it’s not that difficult to justify her proposal within the larger context of our justice system, because we already recognize some of that fluidity in the trade-off between seriousness and age when determining criminal accountability for…

Virginia.

Read this.

Rape is the only crime that is pretty much exclusively motivated by deriving pleasure and power from inflicting pain on someone else. There are other crimes that sometimes are, but rape is unique in that there isn’t another logical objective. IMO it says a lot more about a person’s character than a crime motivated by…

He can apply to have it removed in 15 years.

More than 50% of people in jail are drug offenders, so no, I don’t think that’s “the reason.”

“Having to move when you don’t want to and not being able to attend a PTA meeting is so much worse than being raped,” said no one, ever.

You are so welcome.

The problem, really, is that we have no idea how to rehabilitate sex offenders.

It’s not really that complicated. The justice system already recognizes the idea of imposing more adult consequences on minors for more serious crimes. That’s why the concept of trying a minor as an adult exists.

They’re right to say that age was probably a factor in the commission of his crime. 17-19 year olds are far more likely to commit a violent crime than any other demographic.

Incidentally, the vast majority of violent crime is committed by men between the ages of 17 and 19.