Self-segregation by any group is a step backwards for racial equality.

You refuse to buy from businesses owned by black people?

fuck.

No, if you don’t say yes it doesn’t count as consent, especially when alcohol is involved. If you pass out and wake up with someone attempting sex with you, you are being assaulted, period.

Cecilia never called him racist.

Check again — Cecilia never called him racist. She just said that he kept making ‘racial comments’ even after everyone asked him to stop. To me it makes sense that that would make it harder to trust him as a player and as a person.

Saying it over and over when the team is trying to focus is weird as hell and a dick move, and Cecilia mentions that he said something worse afterwards but she doesn’t remember what. Also note that she doesn’t call him, or even his comments, racist — she just says that he kept making ‘racial comments’ and that it…

First of all, the quote: “Then the other girls spoke up. It happened to others in our group. Same symptoms, same circumstances and for some, very different results.” pretty heavily implies that some members of the group had been assaulted after their experiences, which would confirm that there was a purposeful attempt…

Quoted from LazyLemming:

LazyLemming is a woman — note that she says:

Your story is about not being drugged. The person you’re responding to told a story about being drugged. How is your story a relevant counterargument?

So, she was drinking. She had one drink made by a guy who then proceeded to manipulate her into passing out at his place and sexually assault her while she was still incapacitated to the point of being unable to move or talk, hours after she had stopped drinking.

Don’t forget the XY version of the theme!

God dammit. I also got exclusively porn-centric related search terms — like bisexuality is a fucking fetish.

God bless you.

I know I’m responding months late, but... increasingly, no. Top colleges and universities like MIT and Swarthmore have recognized that first-year students don’t always know what to expect from college and instituted policies that make all first-semester classes pass-fail. This way, students who took college classes,…

A core point of the article is that “allege”, as a verb, has connotations that make it less neutral than simply “say” or “state”. You know what the word means, but the typical usage of a word affects your perception of a sentence containing that word. For instance:

Minimally, though, it’s kind of passive, weak writing to just put “alleged” and “allegedly” in front of everything, instead of writing “<x> alleged that <y> did <z>.” It’s a commonly taught rule of writing: don’t use weak, extraneous adjectives and adverbs where you can use strong verbs.

This is so good. Thanks for writing it.

Yeah I’m not feeling it either.