So true. The way the system handles rape is just fucked up beyond words. Experiencing it recently first hand with someone very dear to me after a sexual assault just left me speechless with rage. First off she was almost 100% certain she had been drugged, and the ER where her rape kit was done had no way to test for…

Pretty much the example I use when I get angry with someone for asking “what was she wearing / was she drunk”. You don’t ask that shit for any other crime - I mean, can you imagine? “Oh you claim you were mugged? Well what were you doing? Were you taking money out of the ATM? Were you dressed in a suit and looking…

We’re sorry that robber shot you. What were you doing out so late? Why were you carrying around valuables? Did you had a few drinks and get friendly, offering to give money to this man and then changed your mind? Maybe you should rethink filing charges, have you considered the effect it might have on this man’s…

No shit. Rape is about an assertion of power. People do it so that they can assert dominance. You’re rarely going to find a person who is like “Meh, that one-time power trip was enough for me for the rest of my life.”

I cannot imagine any other criminal scenario in which this is okay. Oh, we have the bullets used in 100,000 murders and each one has a clear fingerprint on the casing, but we aren't running the prints and, funny story, we even misplaced a bunch of the bullets. Sorry for the inconvenience; thoughts and prayers.

It’s almost like we shouldn’t be ignoring rape kits. Who knew?

Apparently “geometric patterns” is a culture. It is populated by those people in your math problems who buy 70 watermelons and leave Dallas on trains travelling 60mph.

I’ll be wearing “wettable and covers it all the fuck up.” Because I’m an old.

Sorry for the hugeness.

Yes! I agree her taste in men is super suspect but that is what she is learning and is seeming to do better in. She is very intelligent business wise but her niche is picking the wrong guys and then singing about it. Why so much hate? Leo has dated waaaaaaaay more and is a modelizer but that is a ok because... man?

I don’t see it as “she’s slutty for her heels/whatever, date pure me instead”. To me, someone who doesn’t often wear heels and is not a cheerleader type, sometimes it feels like I am less desirable/will never be considered sexy. I can see how it could come off as slutshamey but I don’t think it has to be, it can be…

Well, that is what your 20s are for anyway! Dating and figuring out who is a good fit and who is not. People rip her apart for dating when I dated a heck of a lot more than she has at her age. Do you, Taylor. And I will listen the crap out of whatever album she puts out as a result. Sorry, not sorry.

Why? What’s her age or winning Grammy’s have anything to do with innocence? One of my best friends is 30 year old nurse who sees the crap side of life everyday, and she is about the most kind hearted and innocent person I know. Seems she’d be far more jaded than someone who’s been a professional success at music since…

Cue all the people bashing her for writing songs about her relationships, for having relationships, for being 25, for dating more than one person in the time frame that absolutely no one else ever dates more than one person, for her popularity, and for anything else used an excuse to hide annoyance about powerful…

No trophy animals....leads to no “trophy wives”....? And then no “everybody gets a trophy culture?” and then millennials get jobs? and are mobilized to vote? So this is ALSO empowering our economy, and ushering the political revolution too? natch.

But seriously—like, conservation / protection of vulnerable animal…

this extremely rational follow-through on the facts is lost on so many of the apologist trolls in these threads.

Did things they regret now vs. gang banged a girl and taped it. Well gosh darn it, I can’t see the difference between those two things!

I feel fucking insane reading these comments. Like, did you and I read a different story than everyone else? I have met 16 year olds, they know not to gang up 16-to-1 on a girl in school bathroom and then make a video of it. There’s just no reason for 90% of the comments in here trying to come up with why we should…

And filming it while their buddies have a turn? You are acting like that’s normal behavior.

A nearly had a rage stroke when some POS radio station down here in “marry your first cousin land” posted the story a week or so ago with the caption “How Would You Discipline YOUR Daughter.” No shit.