I think the outrage is due to 1) A person being placed in a cell with a person who previously sexually assaulted them and 2) The higher probability that trans-women will be a vulnerable population in terms of sexual assault specifically, and abuse more generally.
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gedankenexperiment
I am SO SORRY. This is just terrible. I hope he has managed somehow to cope with those horrible horrible memories in his life. My prayers go out to him and your family. And- it matters not whether someone identifies as a "he" a "she" an "it" or what- that sort of lack of care is unacceptable in any circumstance. Who…
It certainly seems so, doesn't it? Disgusting.
WHAT?? I MEAN!? I NEARLY HAVE NO WORDS. BLATANT SOCIOPATHIC ASSHATTERY.
Those guards knew exactly what was going on and what was going to happen.
To egalitarian52a,
Maybe if anyone bothered to ask Greg Wiseman (2 daughters), Maxim Surayev (2 daughters) or Aleksandr Samokutyayeva (1 daughter) the same question, it would be a gender neutral thing, but no one does. Why is that, do you think?
They need to be made illegal on a federal level. This is horrifying.
The governor of California recently signed a bill into law that will ban forced sterilizations in state prisons.…
I'm sorry, Yelena, I'm afraid I can't let you leave the shower without properly conditioning.
It's an organic protein filament that loses pigment as I age!
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I had sex ed in second grade and we learned proper terminology, but there weren't cookies involved. I feel cheated now.
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Chimps who are removed from their mothers early in life and raised by humans as pets or performers are more likely…
It had to happen sooner or later: someone has finally stood up and very publicly said "no, fuck YOU" to the…
Err...not sure which debacle you are referring to. The god particle is a mostly hated (among scientists and even Higgs himself) nickname for the Higgs Boson. When a strong candidate was discovered it was announced by scientists as so. The current status:
"CMS and ATLAS have compared a number of options for the…
Exactly. I really don't see what the big deal is. This is science. And science has just proven that the scientific method works. And since more science is done in part in the public eye the whole process is accelerated. That being said I need to rework my worm hole powered vaccum cleaner. It was supposed to use vaccum…
Exactly. And I'll also point out that this is a key example of how and why the scientific method is superior to dogmatic belief systems: the people involved, upon discovering their mistake, admit it, learn from it and move forward. Dogmatists, regardless of what their particular flavor might be, would now be in…