Yep. I see the phase “taking the easy way out” being bandied about quite a lot.

Oh, the forced-birthers, the RedPill lunatics, the MRAs, and the garden-variety misogynists have been out in force. Everything from approving of child marriage to reinstating “conjugal rights” to rolling back rape laws. We knew this was coming. They masturbate to stories of raped 11-year-old girls being forced to give…

Agreed—leave the horse-lovers of the world alone!  I LOVE my horse. Riding is the only thing that gets me out if my head. My ten-year-old daughter also rides and she’s happy to spend the entire day grooming and cleaning stalls. This one was just plain mean!

Josh Barro on twitter calling her out for this, saying “I don’t think it inpires confidence in the rule of law for a judge to express a wish that she could hand down an unconstitutional punsishment”. It was his only tweet pertaining to any aspect of the trial.

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Oooh, I’ve been posting that one all over the place, because it wasn’t part of the book Exile, and it was written by Taibbi by himself (Taibbi claimed that all of the really egregious passages from Exile were written by Ames). This was a choice morsel as well:

I’ve been posting it everywhere, because he’s tried to claim that all of the really abhorrent parts of Exile were written by Ames. This piece is most assuredly not satire; it reveals the truly ugly, hostile beliefs he held about women. Sure, maybe he’s changed now that he has a wife and kids. It’s unfortunate that he…

This is so true, and thank you for saying it. What is often worse than actually being sexually harassed or assaulted (and I have unfortunately had both) is the psychic pain of being powerless to do anything about it. When no one believes you, or they don’t care enough to even listen, you begin to second guess your own…

Only five minutes? I need at least 20. What’s your secret?

I have fantasies of vagina dentata being an evolutionary adaptation, or some scientist coming up with a way for women to spontaneously grow them as an adaptation to shitty rapists.  

He wrote “lead” instead of “led”. Ivy League education, right there.

Here’s another (written by Taibbi alone, in 1999, in response to a column by Anna Bludy). The title alone, “Of Hacks and Whores”, does not even do it justice. Brace yourselves.

Taibbi and Ames claim Exile was satire. Taibbi claims all the really horrible passages in Exile were written by Ames. Taibbi penned the following column on his own. I would like to know who else thinks this reads as “satire”:

I’m just wondering what “evidence” HeAskedMeWhy believes she “had on her” for a rape conviction. His semen? Doesn’t ever prove whether sex was consensual or not.

If you want to come across as anything other than victim-blaming, shallow and devoid of empathy, try reading this piece about sexual assault and looking at the statistics of how infrequently rapists ever even get brought to trial:

Do you understand that going to the police accomplishes nothing in the majority of sexual assault cases? Why do you think there are hundreds of thousand of rape kits that were never even processed? Those victims did go to the police, went through the trauma of the exam, and police never even bothered to process rape…

What makes you think she knew he was a serial rapist? Because we know that now? Because he had it tattooed on his forehead? Because every woman who comes forward with a sexual assault claim against a powerful man is believed? Hint: they’re not, because the powerful men ALWAYS claim it was “consensual”, then hire…

I did say I was raped. The problem is it took me 28 years to say that, because what I BELIEVED was that, if anything DID happen, it was my own fault for allowing my friend to convince me to not walk home, drunk, at 1am bc it wasn’t “safe”; I trusted him enough to crash in his room while he slept on the couch. And even…

I misread this as well.

There are always a couple of guys on these threads who try to make it about this, instead of what the article was actually about. GenuinelyCuriousBOT is one of them. It always makes them sound like they know they’ve been shady or worse, even if their intentions aren’t. Just not the right thread for that.