You know, just saying “context” doesn’t magically make it better. It’s not a magic word.

I’m not sure what “it only maintains its readership because its one of the few female friendly sites out there” is supposed to mean if not “it’s only popular because women like it”.

Before his attempt to “redeem” himself, I at least gave credit to Franken for just getting out of the way and not making a big spectacle of it.

“It’s not really popular, the only people who like it are women” is....not a good argument.

Serious question: Why are you here?

You mean the article we’re discussing now for containing multiple misleading statements and outright falsehoods. That article?

I just wrote about my main problem with Mayer’s piece being propagating the “myth of the exceptional man”, but the other big problem is propagating the whole “myth of the male bumbler”.

My main problem with Mayer’s piece is that it’s just more “exceptional man” bullshit myth making.

What exactly are men “coping with” here? 

You don’t think the fact that the cops are dirty and have literally zero credibility affects the information they’ve put out?

That’s my position yes. The people who are the kind to believe victims will see this as an outlier (FYI, I believe he was a victim) and the people who will say this is a reason not to believe victims would never have done so anyway.

They were sealed at the request of the prosecutor. Which, again....cops are dirty as anything.

Again, Candace Owens has been tweeting that bullshit for as long as anyone’s been aware of her. This does absolutely nothing to move the needle, her and her ilk are going to be trash regardless.

I haven’t been keeping up with every thing that gets released about this story (because most of it is bullshit), but wasn’t the check for fitness training or something?

The fact they were ready to throw the book at him 2 weeks ago and have now done a 180 tells me there is definitely some fuckery ready to be exposed here. They are dirty as anything.

“They always seal records of people who aren’t convicted.”

He’s not doing community service. I don’t know where you got that from, but he’s not. There was no plea deal here. Case over. Done.

The CPD did exactly what they do with rape victims (which you would think people on this site would know).

“So, what about the guys who did it? It sounds like the CPD knows who they are”

No, it’s an “off duty cops were behind this, so they leaked to make him look bad and then over charged to get the victim to drop it, and then sealed the records so nobody will find out” situation.