I side with the women (and men who are abused) in these cases because false abuse claims are much more rare than true abuse claims, so while I recognize that inevitably some claims are false, which is unfortunate, women are hurt much more by actual abuse than men are hurt by false claims of abuse, so it causes the…

And disappointingly failed to name Hardwick in their post

“Equate” would be the wrong word and not entirely important, what he’s done was very different but enough to lose my support

Have to admit that this one’s the hardest yet for me. Not listening to “Ye” was easy. Haven’t listened to R. Kelly in like a decade. Never started listening to Chris Brown. I’ve been listening to Nas since I was 10 though, but I just can’t give him any streaming numbers and I’m sure as hell not buying anything else…

I feel so out of touch right now. Am I old?

Wow, this is shocking. I know suicide contagion is a real issue, I wonder if this and the death of Inés Zorreguieta have anything to do with the publicity around Kate Spade’s suicide. I guess we’ll never know for sure. I feel so bad for his family  

Why are the cops faces blurred but not the kid’s?

Chances she frequents Jezebel?

Yeah, not surprised unfortunately

I hope no one in your life ever has to rely on you for support since you’ll be less than useless based on your attitude

What the hell?

I think their problem was crafting this vague policy rather than just pulling R. Kelly’s music from their playlists and saying they reserve the right to stop promoting any artist on a case-by-case basis. It’s obviously impossible to enforce it as they had it without someone crying about it not being used equally

“Support women” does not equal “deny due process to the accused.” It’s about how you react to women who come forward with their stories, respecting and listening to them instead of immediately being doubtful and dismissive. It doesn’t mean the police and the courts shouldn’t fully investigate claims (how they do that…

Oh yeah, I definitely agree with that. Like how most racists would never even begin to consider themselves racists, most people who commit sexual assault have all sorts of internal justifications to absolve themselves

It’s okay to hate people for their hateful beliefs, no matter how sincerely they hold them. This is only even a question because it’s still broadly acceptable to hate homosexuality if you couch it delicately enough in Christian theology. If a white player had refused a call-up because of their religious beliefs about…

I’m not gonna argue that the number of male sexual predators is “significantly low,” I think it’s a real problem that shouldn’t be downplayed, but I do think a lot of the disparity with the high percentage of woman who are sexual assault survivors may be that most predators repeat their behavior with many victims, so…

At best history is gonna look back at our treatment of undocumented immigrants as we now look back at the internment of Americans of Japanese descent during WWII. We seem to be sailing right past that “at best” scenario though

I think this myth was actually just about one girl, and yes, it’s been debunked.

Start?

I’m gonna call the cops, but no I’m not fucking Batman, I’m not gonna go fight crime personally. I have better decision making skills than that