How on earth is that a valid source for this specific incident?

Yeah, she has done a good job here and although I’m sure someone will find something to complain about, I think Ellen Page has done right by herself and others on this. The world needs more influential people like Ellen Page.

It’s worth reading her whole piece. It’s almost indisputably on point, well-written, thoughtful and aware. It’s excellent.

To be fair he stopped being really gross after his first season. I was pretty happy to see them get together. But it sucks that he had to start out as such a creep.

By referring to her as an assistant, he’s diminishing her. He’s showing that she’s insignificant. Similarly, in a lot of cases, famous men will refer to “that woman” or “that person” instead of by name. It’s a way of relegating her to the sidelines; an unimportant person with no identity. Remember when Bill Clinton…

Ha it was not an inflatable kayak. I watched the like 20/20 or whatever about this case and they did tests, rowing around in kayaks like his with the caps off and the hole is not large enough to take on enough water to cause any kind of trouble at all, like, even in a torrential rain storm. It’s there for drainage.…

Teenage Women.

The one girl from the logs said “when she goes to college” as an event in the future, which doesn’t mean she’s under 18, but certainly suggests that she is.

Yes, the article specifically mentions that some of them were teenagers, which could refer to someone either above or below the age of consent.

I watched a special on this awhile ago, and remember there was some weird language barrier stuff here and the whole plug removal thing was also kind of misinterpreted... This case is quite as cut and dry as the quick bullet points make it out to be.

At the very best, he’s publicly shown to be a massive asshole, at the very worst he’s an accomplice.

Sexual assault is the more general term. Not all sexual assaults are rapes, but all rapes are sexual assaults. If the story is developing, or you aren’t certain of the details, assault is going to be the “safer” term to use.

Because the man who apparently slut shamed a rape survivor is the perfect person to settle this...

I’m sure a person who is alleged to have insisted that Cohen stay just a little bit longer at Westwick’s apartment and was more concerned about looking embarrassed in front of Westwick is going to incriminate themselves.

I can appreciate the desire to shit on a likely rapist, but making those critiques about appearance are unhelpful at best, extremely harmful at worst.

As I said.

02 is pre social media and when cell phones were just for making phone calls so a pretty noticeable shift from then to now.

And when you’ve been aggressively groomed to think he’s got the key to your entire future and “that crazy bitch was lying.”

Also, when you’re young and groomed by a skilled manipulator. It’s not as easy as it seems.

Weird. Read this and a second later got an email she is in town tonight. So, if you’re in San Diego, come support Alice Glass at the Observatory tonight. It’s free.