All the women who jumped in to be like “that was just a bad date!” were so close to getting the point, too.

Right, IMO you don’t say things like that unless you feel like you have something to worry about.

There were rumors on Twitter and such when the story broke. If anything, this whole “everyone is too woke now poor me” act is enough for me. 

I thought there were a few other stories going around (though nothing that was officially reported on). I think his response is extremely telling and it makes me question how grey of an area it really was.

Nah bro just pointing out that women don’t need to be told what they should be doing in these scenarios and that insisting upon doing so is tone-deaf and infantilizing. 

And again, your solution is for women to just shut up about it. Like I said, typical.

Yes, you’re right, women should never talk about their experiences as a means of bringing attention to what’s happening or even perhaps as a first step in changing the landscape. Movements must be instantaneous or they’re worth nothing.

So instead of addressing issues with the legal process in the first place, you chose to blame women for not putting themselves through the ordeal of a rape trial (assuming their case got that far). Typical.

I didn’t even say “throw out the entire court system.” What I said was it’s ludicrous to tell women to “stop…

The precedent has already been set that women who bring their cases to court either a) can’t get it all the way through or b) watch their rapists get off. An infinitesimal number of rapists are actually jailed. Your assertion that women should subject themselves to an invasive and traumatizing process as “the only…

Yes, surely the only way to change a system that already doesn’t listen to survivors or send their abusers to jail is by *using that system.* WHY DIDN’T ANYONE THINK OF THAT BEFORE.

Everyone shut up about your rape unless you plan on torturing yourself publicly for the next few years of your life! Dwayne said so!

A lot of women don’t want it to go before the courts. You keep saying that like women want to face their rapist in public knowing he likely won’t be punished.

#MeToo has been around for 12 years, actually, and was coined by a black woman to help other black women process trauma. It’s not a movement by or solely for famous actresses.

Additionally, stop telling women that they are hurting other women by not naming names. These experiences are extremely painful and rehashing…

I was not in A Great Place last night and read your comment completely differently from how you intended it, I'm sorry!

There is no stipulation in the Constitution saying so and for a long time many of the justices were retired senators so you can take your snarky ellipses and move on.

This is such an important point and one that doesn’t get made nearly enough.

There’s an impeachment process for SCOTUS, but since you don’t have to be a lawyer to sit on it and our political climate is what it is, I’m not sure it matters.

A guy in college gave me a RING of hickies around my neck and I had to wear a scarf inside for WEEKS (hard to do as a pre-med with labs). Once they turned yellow it looked like someone had tried to strangle me.

What I’m saying is, no thank you.

His first sexual experience was at the age of 8 when an older girl raped him.

GOP: “It’s a 13-minute window somewhere between the time a man is young but before he has children, we’ve narrowed it down that much.”

No, don’t you know that women have to answer not only for their slutty mistakes, but also the mistakes of the people to whom they reported them? A man’s reputation is on the line, after all.