That’s right! If he had already hit her in front of them, even if no one wanted to say anything directly (which is still kinda cowardly, I mean come on you’re all in public), they still couldve done that

They should, but sadly a lot of these scumbags get out. It’s unfortunate that it’s only the child rapists that are guaranteed a shiv in the throat, that’s a welcome wagon that should roll over any rapist.

Fuck Dove. First of all if some guy scream “Bitch” at a woman, and that woman says it’s fine, it still is verbal aggression towards all women in earshot. Secondly though, Dove is basically Unilever, who refuses to budge on palm oil (except fake, scammy first-party certifications). There simply is no bigger threat to…

This story once again highlights the lengths people will go to to allow sexual predators to be comfortable. In my extended friend group, there were two guys: one guy who would get drunk and try to start fights, and one guy who multiple women had accused of behaviour ranging from sexual assault to general creepiness.

Just a few things that can be changed in the law enforcement and justice system to make it easier on people who are raped or assaulted:

I had to look up ‘rape shield evidentiary rules’ (cos IANAL) but that’s an interesting point and of course one I hadn’t considered.

But I question the efficacy of rape shield evidentiary rules, because story after story shows defense lawyers trying to bring up past sexual ‘issues’ against a victim. Also, these existing…

Thank you! No, she didn’t respond and actually that night changed her profile picture to one of her and him together. I was ready for her not to believe me, and also realize that by sending that message I effectively set a bomb off in her life. I also figure that it took me 10 years to tell someone of consequence, and…

Does it bother anyone else that there’s a pattern of publicly-outed rapists who apologize and say they’re going to check themselves into rehab (like Berru in the article and I think Harvey Weinstein said it recently too)? Maybe I don’t know enough about rehab (like is there rehab for rapists where they just berate the…

It’s beyond me that no one ever posts a picture of the rapists in these articles. It’s important to know who these people are, to crucify them and prop their fucking bodies up at the edge of town so they can’t ever slip back into society when/if they get out of jail.

Honestly, I don’t understand why it isn’t already assault and battery. Hell, in some places spitting on someone is considered assault. It absolutely should be in the case of rape. Throw the fucking book at these fuckers.

I was sexually assaulted in college 10 years ago. About a month ago I sent a facebook message to the culprit’s long term girlfriend telling her what had happened, describing it in graphic detail. Pressing charges was never an option I wanted to take, but after experiencing PTSD for a decade, I had to do something.…

Jordan claims Oliver grabbed her, pushed her, and slapped her. ... The people on the porch quickly dispersed.

There’s no easy way to do it, but then again there’s never an easy way to do the right thing, that’s why it’s the RIGHT THING. If doing the right thing were easy, it wouldn’t be a big deal when people do the right thing.

This problem is bigger than any one of us or our individual ideas, but I have one anyway.

I had a bully in 7th grade who held me against a table and punched me for several minutes in school. I was a really small kid and this guy was massive. Lucky for me he wasn’t hitting me with full force, but it still hurt and I struggled to get away. It was when classes were changing and students AND teachers walked by…

This was my immediate thought. where did they all go? Did they all leave the house simultaneously? or if they were still in the house no one went to help!? The world is a pile of shit.

The people on the porch quickly dispersed. Jordan says Oliver dragged her across the house to the bathroom and threw her into the tub, threatening to urinate on her: “I started screaming at him and the noise I was making concerned him enough that he yanked me out of the tub and told me he wouldn’t if I shut up.

So this guy violently beat her in front of a crowded party then dragged her upstairs and raped her for hours and the people at the party........made more nachos??

Since words have no meanings any more, as evidenced by my post graduate educated father trying to win an argument with me my saying that the root word for xenophobia was Zion and related to the zionist movement. Racist people will do anything to avoid having to deal with the fact that they’re racist.

White people need to stop acting like calling them racist is the same as calling a POC a racial slur.