I know how bail works, thanks. But so what if it's not a fine? It's still money that you need to cough up, on short notice, or be jailed. I think you're overestimating how easy it is to get a lot of money to post, or even to pay a bondsman, for a large subset of the people accused of crimes. Whatever technical terms…

So, choosing to pay money (or surrender your photo ID) rather than sitting in jail until your court date isn't choosing a punishment from several options. OK.

Well, our entire bail system in the US is predicated on paying money to get out of jail, for a time. Particularly egregiously, out-of-state drivers in many states have to post bail for offenses that aren't usually jailable, like speeding tickets. In Illinois, for example, you can be required to post bail on the spot,…

Which I figured fell under (2), reporting bias. I doubt that there were that few rapes, just that they weren't reported for some reason.

Black men, like the original asshat said.

He sure did. I'm looking at the table now, and 44% of 110k rapes of white women are by a white perpetrator, 20% by some other race. Almost 100% of rapes of black women are by black men.

Caveats:

That's not what Mrs. means. It's a title for married women who do not hold other titles. It also has been used for certain professions (think Mrs. Patmore on Downton Abbey).

I posted a while back (think 4-5 years) about having been assaulted at a conference. One commenter, who still posts on groupthink, and is to my knowledge pretty well-liked, replied that if I was as annoying IRL as online, then I should be grateful that's where it ended.

It's interesting how people who don't think something is sexist always want the people who do to hand over the authority to make those determinations.

You're putting words in my mouth because you're saying that I think every novel must represent the whole range of humanity. Which I never said. Thinking it's productive to have conversations about a) what groups are represented b) and which and aren't c) and why is not the same as insisting every book must have every…

So?

So, because other novels don't have GLBT, women or POC POV characters, it's OK forall oher novels not to, as well? I reject that. Not only is it not true (uh, Earthsea Cycle?), but I don't think that the way things have been is a good justification for the way things should be in the future.

Because it's not painfully obvious to all people. I've been in offices where every employee was a white man. When I pointed this out to the manager/team lead, they were both like "Oh, I never noticed". Science fiction and fantasy have historically underrepresented groups of people: women, GLBT, disabled, people of…

My copy of the gURL book is one of the few pieces of my childhood I'm saving for my daughter. Excellent, excellent publication.

Ja. Racist, sexist, homophobes? I'll happily chew on them. People who rewrite history when they feel like it? Fuck them.

Nope. Because you're a sleaze. Will be dismissing your comments beginning now.

I edited my post after your series of edits (thanks for keeping the tone civil, by the way \s). So, here's my thought: Protip: It's pretty shady to dramatically alter the content of your post after posting it without labeling those edits. I came back to add another example of what I'm talking about, but since…

You must be really upset that Loras and Renley were in the books, since that's so obviously unrealistic.

I guess I don't know what to say. I don't think fantasy needs to be defined by the absence of certain kinds of people, nor do I think that because GRRM didn't invent the genre, he's absolved of responsibility for erasing certain groups of people.

You are aware that dragons didn't exist in the middle ages, yes? It's funny how it's so easy for nerds to accept dragons as a fantasy, but try to give a minority any sort of representation and that's a bridge too far.