This makes me think of when the Shitty Media Men list was decried as #MeToo overreach. Any way women try to stay safe and keep other women safe doesn’t matter because the old boys club can spin things any way they want. I feel like this won’t even be remember in 10 years. 

Yup. Anybody who can be convinced has been convinced. The only thing to do with the rest is force them to get vaccinated, whether it be through work, travel, school, family, or whatever. Logic isnt going to do it.

It really doesn’t matter which of these we’re aware of and what we decide to respond if we hear each of them, because most of us subscribe stupidly to the “right argument fallacy”, which is a term I just made up but which basically says “If I meet an anti-vaxxer, and I make just the right argument with the perfect…

My wife’s sister just started dating some new dude. She asked if she could have him over for thanksgiving. It only took 5 min to scroll through the dude’s facebook to make that answer a hard, “fuck no.”

That’s what I was going to say. Anyone spouting these views is not someone you should be in an enclosed space with.

Dont invite anti vax people anywhere. They should be locked in and locked down. Fk off all of them.

She ain’t wrong.

My late mother said it best... “Ughhh...men are such pigs”

The Buffalo News reported in August that this judge ordered reporters not to use Belter’s name even though it had been used for years in stories about the charges and the case.

There have been a few suits filed against the mom and step dad.

There was that one judge who let one go without a sentence, and then was forced to sentence him (and re-arrest) because it violated the minimum sentence guidelines.

“Police say Belter’s mother, stepfather, and an adult family friend provided the alcohol and drugs to teenage girls at the parties, to “groom” them for sexual assault by Belter.”

Yeah, but civil suits don’t protect other young women from him. That’s the thing - he now knows he can rape four teenagers and get away with it. I generally don’t believe in prison-as-warehousing, but he’s the reason I reserve the right to make exceptions to that belief.

Sounds about white.  

As if!

Can’t appeal, but they can file a civil suit against the family, esp. as the creep is from a wealthy family who enabled him. I hope they can find pro bono lawyers to take it on if for no other reason to keep this case in the public’s eye.

God forbid

I agonized. I’m not ashamed to say that I actually prayed over what is the appropriate sentence in this case, because there was great pain,

God forbid that a rapist should experience negative consequences for his actions.

So when cops and DA’s complain that women won’t report rapes or testify, maybe they can direct their anger to bullshit like this.