I'm not talking about legal decisions. I'm talking about reality. Because a legal decision reads, "[w]e do not discount the seriousness of rape as a crime" doesn't mean that rape isn't discounted by the media, law enforcement, or civilians in reality. The hypothetical situation of the 1977 Supreme Court disagreeing…

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What I'm saying is that the laws and Constitution fail. If laws were really about preventing rather than punishing crimes, sexual assault would be a capital crime.

Also, does it count as tone policing if this dude keeps saying, "Thanks for taking the time to reasonably reply by the way" or "Thank you for not freaking out"? Because it sure as shit feels like he's patting me on the head and saying, "Good girl!"

Anecdotes are real experiences. I have never heard of a time when rape wasn't about power. I have never heard of a time when rape didn't manifest misogyny. I trust people that have lived it. I don't require scientific proof of every fact I know in the universe nor do I read a study on every fact before I believe it.

Nope, facts in the world exist without a scientific study. A data set that's set to your exact approval frequency doesn't have more validation than all the "anecdotes" of the women who have been raped. It's a pretty patriarchial argument to say, "Where's your evidence? No, not the evidence of your lived experience…

STOP JAQING OFF

How many women and girls have to be victimized before it equals one neckbeard?

Ooooo I love when people tone police me! Let me make sure that the tone I use to tell you to stop being a piece of shit is pleasant and reverent enough to remind you that you're still the privileged member of the dominant group! True allies embrace the anger and hurt in my angry tone, because even though they will…

I think you mean, "It's called.....mass media .... Or dominant culture ......... "

I was thinking theoretically, but with the appeals process you're absolutely right that the death penalty is more expensive in actuality.

I'm not saying we should execute people (though I think it's financially stupid to pay full services for people to spend their lives in prison). I think if we're going to execute anyone, we should execute child molesters, too. That's another crime that is impossible to stop without chemical castration. People…

I think part of the difference is that big-city negative portrayals are presented as the city itself, a conglommerate of urban-ness and sin, is what makes people bad. In the portrayal of small town poverty, I would venture that the thesis is that these people are just gross, poor, uneducated, fat, dirty, smelly,…

SULPHUR! Haven't been there in so long!

homie is a huge troll. you prob realized that now :)

I'm rhetorically comparing these creep shots to something more vile to see if the apologist logic holds true. However, I think people who can justify the purposeful exploitation of women and women's bodies in one arena should be called upon to do so in all arenas. To justify either of these scenarios, in my mind, you…

I don't know what men think. I know what some men do. I'm more afraid of those men's actions than their thoughts because most women that hate men avoid men; many men that hate women will rape and murder women.

I'm saying the people who are disgusted by the disgusting misogynist shiz on Reddit, but say it's okay because some parts of it are okay, seem (to me) to be the same as someone who would say a rapist's disgusting misogynist actions are okay because sometimes that person is okay. I'm making a hyperbolic comparison…

I'm not capital punishment advocate, but when I see a predator as compulsory and violent and vile as this guy, it's hard for me to understand* why we have capital punishment for murder (which is usually a one-time incident, given that the majority of murderers aren't doing it for the thrill but with a concrete motive)…

RE: 2. Right??? Like rapists don't rape people every second of the day. Do these people find the moments when they aren't committing sexual assault to redeem their horrifying behavior? If not, they should gtfo Reddit.