Such a Gawker Media Group response...HOT TAKE!... i dunno bro just imho.
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I mean, this is the kind of Batman v. Superman stuff we can only ever talk about in the abstract, but Fujii doesn't really have any victories that you'd want to hang out there as equivalent to Tate, Zingano, Kauffman, or McMann. Plus (and I know she was older by then) she's another example of a fighter who, when they…
I struggle with the concept of false rape allegations as well, and I am really glad this piece is asking to explore it rather than dismiss it. I want to believe victims and I know false rape stats are really, really rare. Then there is this, though:
We always seem to present things as “innocent until proven guilty” vs “believe the victim”, but that’s really a false dichotomy. I have no problem with our judicial system setting a high bar for conviction, even in cases of rape/sexual assault. What I have issue with is that so few reports are even taken seriously…
I think the problem with false accusations isn’t so much that they happen so often, but more that they could happen at all. It is VERY easy (though, granted, not for everyone and not everywhere) for a female to just say “That guy over there raped me,” and ruin a guy’s life. I’ve seen it done. Not so much as an adult,…
its simple to me. Yes, people are innocent until proven guilty, but if a woman makes a rape allegation, at least take it seriously and investigate it.
Google glasses, ftw!
I’ll play devils advocate for moment.
Eh. This is one issue where I diverge greatly from feminists on, probably due to my ethnicity. As a black man in America, I just can’t be so dismissive of the the existence of false allegations of rape and the impact that they have when they occur. Many an African-American man in the early-mid 20th century ended up…
The past thirty years have been a weird time for phrases like “some key context that’s missing for younger readers”.
I remember in ‘01 or ‘02, when I finally convinced my mom to shell out for DSL. I was SO EXCITED that the time it took to download a song from Kazaa was less than the duration of the song.
She and her husband also run a German-themed Christmas store called The Christmas Sleigh.
On the one hand, yeah, call a creep a creep. Or call way-the-fuck-worse-than-a-creep a creep. Whatever.
I don’t know, it’s New York. People randomly walking up to you and calling you a creep isn’t exactly out of the norm. It probably won’t help.
It’s okay sweetie, Kmart is in a coma and can’t hear us. Just don't trip over that cord.
I got my first computer in ‘98. It was an original iMac. I was working in a salon in SF, and we didn’t even have a computer for booking appointments. I was the first person working there who got one. It was a big deal! The funny thing is that we were there right in the beginning of the dot com boom, but none of us…
Sorry, but why is Kmart being poked fun at here? If anything this seems to show that their only fault was that they were ahead of their time.
Lots of stores, even well into the 2000s had in-store computers and if you bought from those computers, you got free shipping to your house, for example. Another reason to do this, aside from slow interwebs, was to get you in the store to sell you impulse stuff, as well as what you might buy online.